Modern Benoni or Grünfeld?

I feel that this judgement is a bit unsympathetic.

The proper word to describe MOST of my posts would get blocked by the swear-filter, but with a bit of circumlocution we can render it as "S-word"-posting.

That, yes. I do a lot of that. Trash-talking, no.

I find that if you are genuinely helpful to people a good part of the time, the Mods will tend to cut you a bit of slack the rest of the time... as long as you are not actually breaking the rules.

How about we don't trash talk at all?

Hhhhh

ive studied a lot of the benko and benoni and have studied the grunfeld also

i can point out their differences

grunfeld

• • crucial to know 10+ moves of theory in many variations
  • must know all the details and plans depending on which of the many ways white sets up
  • ultra-hypermodern opening (you get little space to maneuver)
  • things can get cramped
  • white can go wrong easily
  • it feels good to punish whites bad play

gtg ill talk about benoni in 30 mins

Give examples. Hating on bluemu is rather strange. He mostly tells jokes and gives pretty good chess advice.

A Heroic Defense in the Sicilian Najdorf - Kids, don't try this at home! - Chess Forums - Chess.com

I direct your attention to the one-word comment in post #140, page 8.

The "Wow!" comment.

PursuitOfHappiness2 is Grandmaster Mishra, the youngest Grandmaster in the entire history of Chess (beating the records set by both Bobby Fischer and Karjakin).

He seems to be under the impression that not only do I play chess here on chess.com, but I also play it well enough to impress one of the chess world's hottest prodigies.

Perhaps you should set him straight?

people mess up equally in every opening explain how openings matter in how much people can mess up

there is a negative chance you actually came to this conclusion by yourself

also, how are hypermodern openings harder to understand? i dont play them but this seriously feels like sticking a certain playstyle into peoples brains

#40 its page 7 but i digress (post number/20 and round up)

either way that game is famous now lol

ok maybe i went a bit far (because of your unprompted switch of flags maybe) but still

openings with more theory arent harder to play, that isnt a strong factor

as samuel said, everyone will have roughly equal knowledge of theory, so the fact that there is a lot shouldnt matter

disprove this idea or explain you were never saying anything against it

back imma talk about benoni

benoni has

• alot of theory
• the taimanov variation (just a pain)
• a bunch of setups white can go for
• you gotta prefect Nh5-f5
• its an opening where you win a spectacular game or lose a terrible one
• very sharp
• very imbalanced
• should not be afraid to sacrifice

just play the benko

I used to enjoy a good King's Indian, Panno variation.

I just got squeezed like a zit too many times in the Modern Benoni.

also the grünfeld can be quite drawish

compare 2 lines in each

menacing russian variation

taimanov benoni, its very easily for black to go wrong here and you will walk on a tightrope of theory for the next 10+ moves

Based on your repertoire, I would recommend the Grunfeld. Just like the Najdorf, it creates several weaknesses in exchange for aggressive play.

Grunfield is better

My favorite Panno variation of the King's Indian leads into a Benoni position by transposition, bypassing White's most aggressive possibilities such as the Taimanov.

i also have resulted to playing like this to avoid the taimanov

but the weakness is b5 is much harder, and playing e6 is not very good because they can capture d5 with the e pawn and allow much less counterplay

you can also get it out of a pirc

its better than the d6 benoni and black gets a bit more due to there not being a c4 pawn there, but its not very common

you can also avoid it by playing a kid

You haven't responded to my Post #40.

lock 2 GMS in a room for 10 hours with a chessboard and see what happens

Grandmaster Mishra seems to disagree with your analysis.