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		Benoni books do not bother with it either, for White need not play c2-c4 and if the e-file is opened (which often happens) the central pawn structure is quite different.
		Black cannot hope for a Benoni type counterplay, for White puts a piece and not a pawn on c4." However, he gave no concrete examples to support this argument and 3 d5 gives a kind of middle game that may be unwelcome to many 1 e4 players.
		In fact it is a form of Old Benoni (also reachable 1 d4 c5 2 d5 e6 3 e4) and is considered briefly under the heading A43 in ECO (the "Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings").
	www.chesscafe.com /text/kibitz13.txt (1680 words)

	Benoni Defense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Benoni Defense is a group of chess openings generally characterized by the opening moves 1.d4 c5 2.d5 although Black's...c5 and White's answer d5, is often delayed until move 2 or 3.
		The most common is the Modern Benoni, which may come after the moves 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 d6 5.e4 exd5 6.cxd5 g6 or 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.e4 g6.
		The Modern Benoni is thus a very combative and double-edged opening, indeed, it is one of the most double-edged openings with 1.d4.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benoni_Defense (727 words)

	Chess Openings
		This hypermodern Defense was successfully played by Alekhine against A. Steiner in 1921 at Budapest but this Defense was well known for more than a 100 years before that.
		This Defense blocks the c pawn and often trades a bishop for a knight but allows Black to develop quickly which may bring him attacking chances against inferior play.
		This Defense was analyzed in the 15th century by Italian Lucena, but was named after Parisian players who adopted it in an 1834 correspondence game against London.
	www.sudburychess.org.uk /ChessOpenings.htm (2019 words)

	Chess openings: Benoni Defense (A56)
		If fl actually wants to avoid the Taimanov, he either can't play the Benoni against 3.Nc3, or has to play something like the Hromadka System, or has to play an early a6 or Nd7 or Bd7 (all of which don't seem to work so well and just invite a difficult position).
		You see a lot of players covering the nimzo and the benoni to fill their reportoire but why not play this order of benoni only,or play the nimzo and QID or bogo which are much more consistent with the nimzo?
		The main point is that if fl wants a Benoni but not the Taimanov, he can go with the Hromadka System, unless that is as flawed as euripides read it is.
	www.chessgames.com /perl/chessopening?eco=A56 (1591 words)

	The Gambit Guide to the Modern Benoni
		Watson has often stated his preference for the latter type of work, and for the Modern Benoni, the book's exhaustive analysis appears to be the more appropriate method.
		The Modern Benoni is an unbalancing, fighting defense that has appealed to no-holds-barred players.
		A player who already plays the Benoni is likely to find at least a few variations where favored lines are not covered at all.
	www.jeremysilman.com /book_reviews_rb/rb_gmbt_gd_mdrn_bnn.html (1118 words)

	Craig Mar
		Nowadays, the Modern Benoni defense is a rare bird.
		The Benoni is characterized by the moves 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.6 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5.
		The theme of the Benoni is that fl must stop white from expanding with an eventual e5, while white must stop fl's queen side majority from advancing.
	www.chessdryad.com /articles/mar/Benoni/benoni.htm (1217 words)

	Amazon.ca: Keene On Chess: Books: Raymond Keene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		His work covers from the simple piece's moves, pieces' name to advance topic like: the positional chess, strategies and the debatable "Who is the greatest chess player of all times?" This reminds me of many books of Chernev's, except Keene's is all about real chess, while Chernev's has quite a few fictonal stories.
		Some sections in Keene's are very good: in the Indian Defenses, the attacking methods/targets, choosing a chess hereos, fighting against/for the IP, so on.
		Neither the Benoni Defense nor the Maroczy Sicilian is mentioned anywhere else, as far as could see.
	www.amazon.ca /Keene-Chess-Raymond/dp/1580420087 (732 words)

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		Qd3 e6 //DUTCH DEFENSE, VON PRETZEL GAMBIT 1.
		Nc3 c6 //DUTCH DEFENSE: STONEWALL WITH NC3 1.
		Nf5 exf5 //SICILIAN DEFENSE - NAJDORF, BG5 POISONED PAWN 1.
	home.graffiti.net /fortress_productions:graffiti.net/chess/openings.txt (2497 words)

	Amazon.com: The Complete Benoni (Batsford Chess Library): Books: Lev Psakhis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This dynamic defense is about as close to total warfare as you get in modern chess.
		The likelihood of exchanges and a quick draw is minimized from the start; both players must carry out their plans with the utmost vigour, or risk being swamped.
		The Complete Benoni is 254 page volume on the merits of responding to White's 1.d4 and 2.c4 with 1...Nf6 and 2...c5 Author and Grandmaster Lev Psakhis reports a 70% winning percentage in over 60 games using this system.
	www.amazon.com /Complete-Benoni-Batsford-Chess-Library/dp/080503904X (1224 words)

	The Daily Dirt Chess Blog: Benoni, SA
		Watching the mediocre Woody Allen movie "Celebrity", wondering who the familiar woman was playing the supermodel character, checking the IMDB and seeing it's Charlize Theron, noticing she was born in Benoni, South Africa.
		Benoni is the name Rachel gives her son in the Old Testament and means "child of my sorrow" in Hebrew.
		It was the title of a book of opening research, mostly on gambits, that included analysis of 1.d4 c5.
	www.chessninja.com /dailydirt/2006/05/benoni_sa.htm (302 words)

	Modern Benoni (CD) - Chess House
		The Modern Benoni is a fighting defense that will suit players aiming for active play rather than patient defense.
		Doing this, Black is willing to take risks (and those risks have to be shared...) in order to force his opponent into a complicated fight, both strategically and tactically.
		In the text part of the CD, the Canadian IM Jean Hebert introduces the typical patterns and motifs of the Modern Benoni, allowing you to quickly get familiar with this dangerous opening weapon.
	www.chesshouse.com /Modern_Benoni_CD_p/a109.htm (181 words)

	Roman Forum Video series page with cart
		In a companion tape to "Dzindzi Indian Defense" the author examines the consequences of White's attempts to avoid the sequence
		The primary focus of his investigations are the Exchange Variation and his recommendations for meeting the Tarrasch Defense.
		He also deals with his recommendation for White against the Bogo Indian Defense (he likes 4.Bd2), and what to do when Black steers the game into a Benoni Defense with 3...c5.
	www.chess4less.com /2-romanForum.htm (575 words)

	Franco-Benoni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		White may continue 3.d5, when play can transpose into the Benoni, though White has extra options since he need not play c4.
		3.Nf3, transposing into a normal Sicilian Defense, and 3.c3, transposing into a line of the Alapin Sicilian (usually arrived at after 1.e4 c5 2.c3 e6 3.d4) are also common.
		Play may also transpose into French Defense lines; for example, 1.e4 e6 2.d4 c5 3.c3 d5 4.e5 transposes into the Advance Variation of the French.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franco-Benoni (153 words)

	Google Search: benoni defense chess
		Benoni Defense Black obtains active pieces and a...
		Mikhail Tal, the Modern Benoni was his first defense.
		Asian Zonal Champion IWM Pallavi Shah of LIC in a Benoni defense...
	www.geocities.com /crashcozz/benonigoogle.html (1663 words)

	Players exploit checks and imbalances \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		It can be brutal, especially at the highest levels, such as the U.S. Chess Championship now under way in San Diego.
		Day after grueling day, the nation's top players sit down for marathon matches of attacks and counterattacks, heroic defensive stands, and blunders they'll replay in their heads forever.
		At least that's how it emerges in the re-telling, on the Internet and in the Commentary Room set up just down the hall from where the players are going at it.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041202/news_1c2chess.html (970 words)

	The Campbell Report - Steve Ham versus Nimzo 7.32
		Besides Black can play the sharp Benoni Defense with 3…c5, but I've then eliminated the option of meeting that with the universally approved antidote, the Taimanov Variation, because I've already blocked my f-pawn.
		I thought that the only reason that a human might have for selecting this text move is that it involves a "cheapo" that White could fall for.
		Instead, I overlooked a Black defense that couldn't be more obvious, namely 45…,Rxd1 46 Bxd1, g3, forcing a draw.
	www.correspondencechess.com /campbell/ham/hamwhite.htm (9181 words)

	ChessPublishing.com Forum - ZILBERMINTS BENONI, 1 d4 c5 2 Nf3 cxd4 3 b4! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		ZILBERMINTS BENONI, 1 d4 c5 2 Nf3 cxd4 3 b4!
		Seeing how this thread is about the Nimzo-Indian and Benoni Defenses, I decided to post my own contribution.
		Re: ZILBERMINTS BENONI, 1 d4 c5 2 Nf3 cxd4 3 b4!
	www.chesspublishing.com /yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1122235628 (1083 words)

	Benongrad Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Benongrad Defense gets its name from the Benoni Defense and the Leningrad variation of the Dutch Defense.
		From the Benoni fl inherits the proud dark-squared Bishop, the queenside b7-b5 advance and general q-side piece development, and play against white's pawn at d5.
		From the Leningrad Dutch he gets the inhibition of e2-e4, the dark bishop again, kingside space for a possible later attack, and chances of playing e7-e5 as opportunity arises.
	www.ozarkia.net /bill/chess/benongrad/overview.html (129 words)

	Chess Openings : Index of all chess positions
		Benoni - Argentine Counterattack "Variation I" Benoni - Argentine Counterattack "Variation II"
		Benoni - Czech "Variation I" Benoni - Czech "Variation I-A" Benoni - Czech "Variation I-A-1"
		Benoni Gambit Declined "Variation I" Benoni Gambit Declined "Variation II"
	www.csm.astate.edu /~wpaulsen/chess/index.htm (4800 words)

	U.S. Chess Championship - San Diego (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		We're lucky to have John Watson, author of several books on the Benoni defense, to annotate the critical game Onischuk-Nakamura.
		No one can begin to analyze this game accurately with only a few hours, but since it was the star contest of the day, we can at least look at the general contours.
		All these lines are unresolved.] 8.e4 0-0 9.Bd3 a6 10.a4 Nbd7 Most Benoni experts consider this setup inferior because Black soon suffers under a lack of space and a cramped position.
	www.uschesschampionship.com /2006/news/09annotated.htm (764 words)

	Roman's Forum - Vol 35 (DVD) - Dzindzichashvili
		Featuring: Blunting the D4 Dagger provides the viewer with methods for combating various White systems such as the Trompowsky, the London, the Torre and the Colle.
		Queen's Indian Massacred prepares the viewer to handle the White side of the Queen's Indian Defense with the move 4.Bg5.
		The King's Indian Assassination provides the viewer with a system for meeting the King's Indian Defense based on a development scheme with Bc1-f4 followed by e2-e3.
	www.chesscenter.com /shop/item6627.htm (253 words)

	Chess: play online chess
		But jokes aside, it's actually quite playable on the club level, as few white players will be ready for it, and are likely to misplay.
		If you want something off the beaten track, you could play a version of the centre counter defense (1.e4 d5 2.exd5) and either retake with the queen to enter the main(-er) lines, or make a gambit of it with Nf6.....
		The Sicilian is REALLY hard to play well....juggling your queenside counterchances against fending off a kingside attack often demands really good timing and can be unnerving and frustrating....
	mailcafe.net /online/chess/1697.shtml (493 words)

	ICC Help: ECO2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Read help search for more information on how to explore the master database on ICC.
		A41-42, B06 59728-11583-54657 52.01 9.19 -Averbakh System A42 7901- 1600- 7736 50.47 9.28 Neo-Grunfeld Defense D70-79 6441- 1742- 5528 53.32 12.70 Nimzo-Indian Defense E20-59 54111-14812-49927 51.76 12.46 -Classical E32-39 17961- 5588-16295 52.09 14.02 -Samisch E24-29 3918- 781- 3622 51.77 9.38 -4.
		Be2 B07 43578- 8163-37899 53.16 9.10 Queen's Gambit D06-69 244376-71737-218668 52.40 13.41 -Accepted D20-29 28010-10171-29253 49.07 15.08 -Orthodox Defense D60-69 6681- 2120- 5367 54.63 14.96 -Semi-Slav D31, D43-49 49798-13863-43211 53.08 12.97 -5.
	www.chessclub.com /help/ECO2 (474 words)

	Chessville - Misc. - News - 34th Bosnia Chess Tournament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Predojevic, B - Bologan, V 0.5-0.5 Sicilian defense: Taimanov variation 34 moves
		Short, N - Shirov, A 0.5-0.5 Sicilian defense: Sveshnikov variation 35 moves
		Shirov, A - Predojevic, B 1-0 Sicilian defense: Nimzovich-Rossolimo attack 44 moves
	www.chessville.com /News/news_bosnia2004.htm (534 words)

	ECO -- The Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A70 -- Benoni, Classical with e4 and Nf3
		C79 -- Ruy Lopez, Steinitz defense deferred (Russian defence)
		D64 -- QGD; Orthodox defense, Rubinstein attack (with Rc1)
	www.bluejack.com /chess/eco.html (616 words)

	StarBase 4.56 PowerBook Chess Database
		Covers Irregular answers to 1.e4 (1...b6, 1...Nc6, etc.), The Scandinavian Defense, Alekhine's Defense, The Pirc/Modern Systems, The Caro-Kann Defense, and the Sicilian Defense (all variations, and about 80% of this volume).
		Covers Irregular 1.d4 d5 games, The Veresov Attack, The Queen's Pawn Game, The Queen's Gambit with Irregular answers for Black, The Slav Defense, The Queen's Gambit Accepted, The Orthodox Queen's Gambit (all variations), and The Gruenfeld Defense.
		Covers The Catalan System, The Blumenfeld Gambit, The Bogo-Indian Defense, The Queen's Indian Defense, The Nimzo-Indian Defense, and the King's Indian Defense - again, all variations of these massive openings.
	www.chesscentral.com /pickard/StarBook.htm (302 words)

	Taimanov and Knights Tour Benoni Chess Book by John Watson
		Taimanov and Knights Tour Benoni Chess Book by John Watson.
		This book outlines two fundamentally different ways for White to attack the Modern Benoni Defense.
		Complete Defense to Queen Pawn Openings - Eric Schiller
	www.chessset.com /taimandknigt.html (246 words)

	Chess openings: Benoni Defense (A60)
		: I've taken up an interest in the Benoni opening lately.
		I've also started a Benoni thematic tournament on gameknot.com (first moves 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 c5).
		The tourney is open to anybody who has a gameknot rating between 1600 and 2000.
	www.chessgames.com /perl/chessopening?eco=A60 (218 words)

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		Nf3 c4 [Site "A43"] [White "Old Benoni defense"] 1.
		Nc3 g6 [Site "A44"] [White "Old Benoni defense"] 1.
		Be2 Re8 [Site "A70"] [White "Benoni"] [Black "Classical with e4 and Nf3"] 1.
	www.abortionessay.com /eco/a.pgn (3120 words)

	Chess Openings
		e5 2 Nc3 Nc6 3 Nf3 Nf6 4 g3 Bc5 5 Bg2 d6 6 O-O O-O 7 e3 Re8 8 d4 Bb6 9 h3 h6 10 a3 a5 - Hedgehog Defense (5 e4): 1..
		1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 - Berlin Defense (4 O-O): 3..
		Bc5 4 c3 f5 5 d4 fxe4 6 Bxc6 dxc6 7 Nxe5 Bd6 8 Qh5+ g6 9 Qe2 Qh4 10 h3 Be6 11 Nd2 Bxe5 12 dxe5 Qg5 - Closed Defense / Fianchetto Variation: 3..
	cknelsen.sasktelwebsite.net /chess/chess_open.html (6420 words)

	Chess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bogoljubow Defense (aka Bogoljubow-Indian Defense or Bogo-Indian Defense)
		Sicilian Defense / Lasker-Pelikan Sicilian (aka Sveshnikov Sicilian)
		Sicilian Defense / Velimirovic Attack (aka Sozin Attack)
	heim.ifi.uio.no /~andreio/chess.php (179 words)

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