Thoughts on the Benoni Defense?

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sndeww
BlitzKriegBoy99 wrote:
B1ZMARK wrote:

 

This looks like a Benko gambit, when White gives back the pawn, at least the pawn structure is quite similar - 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.b6
But Black is some "tempos" down, as White has already played a4, Nc3 and e4. 

Yeah, that’s why I don’t trust 2...b5. Loses too much development.

pfren
BlitzKriegBoy99 έγραψε:
B1ZMARK wrote:

 

This looks like a Benko gambit

 

To me it rather looks like a load of nonsense - especially this 4.c4 move which does Black the favour to deny the c4 square to his own pieces (e.g. the b1 knight).

sndeww

Eh, I didn’t spend too much time on it. You’re right.

herr_shaibel

I'm inserting an inspiring benoni video happy.png https://youtu.be/x0TDJK973ms

tygxc

In a must win with black situation: down 0-2 in a 24 games match
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1044727 

goldenbeer
Let me know your opinion about my rapid game in Benoni (against around 2100 player otb), here is my video of analyzing that game.

https://youtu.be/xEyBuqiA3R4
Cobra2721
krazeechess wrote:

As a Queens Gambit player, the two openings I hate the most are Benoni and Grunfeld.

I could beat u with KID