I think the idea is if the center is locked after ..e5 then white's extra tempo at the beginning doesn't really matter as much and the player with the better long term plan will win. Makes sense to me.
Also it has the benefit of boring sharp, tactical players to death. They will overextend, misplace their pieces, or both.
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tmkroll hat geschrieben:
Well personally I get good results with Black against class A players and once or twice against players with online ratings over 2000 with the passive e5 lines, quite a bit better than in regular 1. d4 stuff just because I think my opponents don't see it very often and don't know how to play it.
Yes, against rating 2000 you can play just about anything. But against strong players I think the closed Benoni positions are a bad choice. I've seen teammates of mine try it against GMs a few times a times, and getting just crushed with no counterplay. Modern Benoni is fragile of course, but very resourceful, and there's always some lingering counterplay, even in bad positions. Incidentally against very strong opponents (2400+) it seems to be the opening I score best with, even though I'm more of a strategical player than a tactician. (I'm aware of the fact that my judgement is quite a bit biased by my own experiences.)
Oh, I apologize. I was only talking about an early f4 in the Modern Benoni (I know absolutely nothing about the Czech Benoni, and in fact I hate playing against it!)