Exploring the Vulture

Ever since I picked up Stefan Buecker's book "The Vulture and Associated Systems," I've had a soft spot for this iconoclastic approach to Benoni-type positions.

Games are often sharp but sometimes transition into more traditional benoni battles. Black strives to improve the lot of his dark square bishop and create complexities with piece play in the center and on the queenside. White's game is more spacious, but attacks on the (soon-to-be) static mass of pawns in the center can cause him troubles. And there's the question of that Sarcogypsic knight on e4...

Come play!