The Modernized Modern Benoni

Descripción

We all develop through childhood. Our expectations, dreams, fears, positive and negative character

traits, love and attachment to things that have become important for us. From childhood, most of us also

have a love for chess.

 

There was a spark in our eyes to fight again and again, to play as long and as often as possible, to get

stronger and win. We came to the chess clubs, the coach taught us the basics and then gave us more

complex materials when our level of play improved. We studied the games of the maestros of the past

and wanted to carry out no less beautiful combinations, attacks, sacrifices, going all-out.

 

There came times when we understood in which positions we feel most comfortable, what suits us in a

strategic game, and some of us became bewitched by tactical lines of struggle. Most of those who love

dynamics try to seize the initiative as soon as possible and start an attack. As Black they do not want to

be content with a draw. Such players usually started their way to the top of mastery with the King’s

Indian Defense — a unique opening rich in history, like a phoenix, which was reborn countless times

from ashes.

 

Over time, my attention focused on the Modern Benoni. In this opening, the bishop on g7 is the same

icon that is the basis of the King’s Indian, but here it can operate on the whole a1-h8 diagonal instead of

being locked in by its own pawn on e5, as usually happens in the King’s Indian. Black’s plan is

outrageously simple: with pawns on d6 and c5, and sometimes b4, he creates a breakwater that opens up

space for his favorite on g7.

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