Benko Gambit Explained by the legend Himself!

Intro: Pal Benko is an Hungarian Chess player and composer off endgame study's, if you want to learn about his study's, check out this lesson on Chess.com https://www.chess.com/lessons/pal-benkos-studies

He also invented the Benko gambit and the King's Fianchetto opening. I will show you 8 games of him and I put a double exclamation mark on every piece he sacrificed in the picture. He sacked 4 rooks, 2 knights a Bishop and a few pawns in 8 games!

King's Fianchetto opening: With this opening he destroyed World Champions Mikhail Tal and Bobby Fischer, It start when you play 1. g3 and fianchetto your Bishop to g2.

In these games he didn't plays brilliant, the real thing why you clicked on this blog will come now!

Benko Gambit: Benko gambit is a dubious but playable gambit in the Benoni, you will see much sacrifices to create or push a passed pawn that's unstoppable, I will just show you the six games!

A few puzzles by rating level:

Puzzle for players rated below 1300 rating on Chess.com:

Puzzle for players rated above 1300 rating on Chess.com:

This actually is the Tarrasch trap from my previous blog, check out that one!

Outro: I hope you enjoyed this blog and I want you all to become a GM on a moment!

P.S. Did you solve the puzzles? Comment if you solved it!