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I play it, and my strategy is to get my pawns on the queen's side of the board in a favourable position for the end game. So your black bishop on g7 can be really helpful on that black diagonal all the way to b1. It doesn't always get to the end game, but that's a strategy:)
Depends on how you want to play it. The modern benoni is a bit risky, you're giving white a HUGE space advantage. If you want to play those lines you have to be ready to play energetically and maybe make a positional sacrifice. Basically to use the benoni you need to have a good understanding of dynamic play..there's no simple way to learn that. The statics of the position almost certainly favor white, you're not trying to get equality you're trying to rip white's position apart. As far as the theory goes you can find plenty of it, but understanding how to handle the positions will be the difficulty. There are more solid benoni systems, but the only I've ever messed around with is the modern. If you want to have the benoni in your repertoire, I would also highly suggest learning the benko gambit.
Not true. It is easier to play for black since due to white's space advantage white has many weaknesses. It's rewarding against weaker players. Saying it's risky is not exactly true. On the other hand coaching some calm lines is very risky.
White can try to punish blacks play with moves like f4 and e5 just trying to say: "I've got space, you got nothing. I'm gonna crush you" which is highly dynamical, and highly interesting. White can also play a little more "calmly" with moves like a4, f3 Nf3-Nd2-Nc4 and Bf4 trying to say: "Okay I respect the positive features you have, but I'm going to try to shut you down one by one, and then put pressure on your weak d6 pawn.
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Nf3 g6 7.g3 Bg7 8.Bg2 O-O 9.O-O Nbd7 10.Nd2 a6 11.a4
I'm terrified.
I have played Benoni for about a year now, couple of points:
Plans for white: playing f4 and going for Taimanov variation or putting the King's knight on c4 to attack the weak point d6.
Plans for black: Attack with your pawns on the queenside, stop white his plans on b5 (Knight or bishop) by a6 for example ( so you can play b5 yourself), quickly develop your bishop on the long diagonal (g7) and play out your other pieces (Nf6/Nbd7,Bg7,Bg4/Bf5).
Often times white gets counterplay by attacking the d6 square, black gets counterplay from playing c5/b5 etc.
A few weeks ago I had a stunning 8 move minitiature against an 1648 FIDE rated opponent using the Benoni, he made a blunder and some inaccuries from move 4!!
I suggest you to have a very sharp eye on tactics when you play the benoni and try to develop quickly. Attack on the queenside with b7-b5, c5-c4. Use the b-file to penetrate with a rook and b3 and c3 squares for a knight. Attack the e4 pawn. Try to undrmind the center with f7-f5. Attack the opponent king. Try to be active in every move.
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