Hmm
Thoughts on the Old Benoni Defense?
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If your mindset is to play an objectively good defense you just shouldn't be playing the Modern Benoni at all. Some little marginal theoretical improvement with an early Nc3 that not even the engine can substantiate would never justify reaching the Modern Benoni via the nimzo setup or something like this - the Nc3 line is not so much more critical than the Modern Benoni already is where it would warrant learning an entire repertoire worth of sidelines to avoid - you just would not play the Benoni if this is your concern.
But tbh if you're to the point of playing a Benoni you should just play the modern. You're getting a fiancetto in either case, but the Modern is just better than the Benoni.
I think you mean nc6? If white plays nc3 I think black should go for a nimzo Indian instead of the modern Benoni. I’m just starting out with it but that is one thing I think I heard upon initially learning the basics.
they are talking about the old benoni move order, where white hasnt played 2.c4 yet. The idea is that unlike the modern benoni, trying to play it via the old move order, allows white to play nc3 instead of c4, leaving the c4 square for the king knight (nf3-nd2-nc4) instead of the pawn. knight on c4 with pawn on a4 or a5 and knight on c3 almost entirely ruins blacks main source of counterplay.