notmtwain wrote:
Who told you that it's winning?
Pawnpusher.
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12. a4?? In the Benko
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Surely the point of 12 a4 is not to prepare a kingside pawn attack but instead to ready 13 Nb5.
The idea behind 12/13 a4 in the king walk variation of the benko is for white to build the ideal pawn structure on the qside in order to eliminate/or greatly reduce black's play/pressure there .
I've been told there is a line that renders black defeated...
But I went ahead and started analyzing anyway.
It's beautiful this variation, with some of the richest ideas in the Benko to date, but I'd hardly say its a refutation. Also that's just how I would play it, for both sides.
EDIT: Clarified c4.