Czech Benoni for Dummies(Im the dummy)

Seriously, a big dummy. I played a quick blitz tournament on this opening and got flat out ****ing destroyed. And what made it worse is the opening seems so simple for both sides. Black wants f5 or b5, white stops it and cramps the crap out of you.

Now on the white side admitted I was just pissed off at that point having lost 3 black in a row. I got a decent bind in but had no clue what to do after that and blundered against some weak sac and almost threw my computer against a wall(im kidding, relax).

Can someone help me understand this opening? I might adopt it as black actually since I had so much trouble with it.

PS. I was playing an early g6, Bb7 as black, when I understand the mainline is Be7. g6 just seemed normal to me at the time

g6 stuff tends to be slow and you can get caught out by early f4 stuff. White usually wants to play f4, b4 or both. Anyway it's one of those openings that's better for White but if you don't know what's going on then not so much. The pawn breaks seem obvious but playing them when it's ok and figuring out what to do afterwards can be complicated. 

The main idea for White is to play b4 which is easier to play and can't really be stopped by Black. It's hard to find a situation in which b4 is a bad idea unless there's a tactical problem with it. In that case it's not too different from the KID but you're using the b-file instead of the c-file to attack. Black usually plays for ...f5 because it's easier and it's not that different from the KID anyway. It's just that ...f5 is a lot harder to play in this opening for many reasons. 

I think the best thing to do is to look at games and see what other players do in these positions. The best game in this opening is probably Kasparov - Miles 1986 because it's a pretty good showing of how White can use the space advantage to play on both sides of the board. I think it's important to note that Black didn't simply autolose because b4 was played. Another good game is Radjabov - Carlsen 2007 because it shows Black getting most of his aims in the position except for maybe trading the dark-squared bishops early.

It's not that the mainline is Be7 it's that the Czech Beonini is Be7. When you play g6 and Bg7 it's a transposition to a line of the KID. It's not bad, just a different opening.

There's a lot Black can do besides simply f5. Here is a good Finegold lecture on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=049NnoR1LGE

Ill definitely check out Carlsen trying this as black

Are you talking about this game? http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1455225 That's not typical at all. The Snake Benoni kind of barely works as is if it even does. There must a reason no one plays Bd6 it in that position.

Sorry the game is Nielsen - Carlsen 2007.