Son of Sorrow (Benoni)

Every person experiences different emotion during a game of chess, You may be sad when you lost but winning doesn't always mean happiness depending to some reason. 

"We cant deny the fact that in life, sad and joy are always blended out"

Maybe you are wondering some people may do when they are sad mostly the question is, How they  handled it strongly?

Did you know that one chess opening has been invented during this kind of emotion?

According to manuscript From 1825 by Aaron Reinganum, the word "Benoni" means "Son of Sorrow" in Hebrew,  the author suffered from depression and studied the opening beginning with the moves 1.d4 c5 2.d5 (the original Benoni) as a refuge from his sadness.

Its Origin had been a subject of debate for years,
later in early nineteenth century, It has also been claimed that the opening was originally named after a player named Benoni.

"The Magician of Riga" Mikhail Tal is one of the pioneers of this opening.

The benoni is an extremely popular opening at high level play as it immediately threatens the central pawn from white’s d4 with black’s c5.

Black looks to counter attack by bringing his minor/major pieces involved into the game while continuing to threaten the central pawn support from white.

As stated in the Film "Bobby Fischer against the world", the Benoni, known as the son of sorrow is a provocative opening, aimed at quickly going for significant imbalances.

White gets a space advantage with a stronghold on d5 and lots of space for his pieces to develop.

Black has lots of potential to open the game up in his favour and will often exploit the power of his bishop on g7. The knight f6-h5!? manoeuvre was this game's real novelty!

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