It's fast, and good practice if you can't afford the real rybka/fritz set-up, or can't get to anything else otherwise. It's strange how black had to struggle before finding g6 as an answer to a single sharp line.Īs white I never accept that a6 pawn, then you're almost always stuck with hand castling, and what seems to be a lost endgame.Īt the interactive is a rybka engine, on the hardest level it will allow the benko gambit, and sometimes play the handcastles version as white. So by all means, play the Benko if that's what you like -) )Įdwin Meyer: Statistics aren't that bad for Black when you take a look at them in ChessBase's MegaBase 2007 I sometimes play the Benko, and I get around this potential problem by having little to no working knowledge of the main line. WarmasterKron: Re, bringing Benko players out of their comfort zone by playing away from the main line. Probably too risky for matches or strong round robins but fine for swisses. These stats are not bad for black but this is not an opening to play for a draw. Marmot PFL: White will have a statistical edge in any respectable opening. I think there are some good ideas behind this opening in theory but often I don't get the best reults with it in practice. Moral: A rook sacrifice as a novelty should usually be avoided!įICSwoodpusher: Does anyone here play the blumenfeld countergambit. In the end I was lucky to struggle into an ending down a piece, but with an extra pawn and an initiative, and the game was eventually drawn. Play continued 17.Bxb5 18.Nfd5 (Perhaps stronger would have been 18.Ne4) 18.Nxd5 19.Nxd5 Qxa2! (now I realised I was in some real trouble) 20.Nc7+ Kd8 21.Nxb5+ Kc8 22.Na7+ Kb7 23.Qd4 reaching this bizarre position:īoth sides are well behind in kingside development and have exposed kings, but it turns out white's is in more danger, and I should have been beaten fairly quickly from here. White gets some okay compensation, but not enough.
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The main idea being to free the d5 square for the knights. This led to me playing the rather bizarre novelty 17.Rxb5?!? I certainly considered the move, but I had to admit to myself that I couldn't remember any further, so I tried to look at the position completely afresh. Unfortunately for me, I hadn't looked at it within the weeks before the tournament.ġ0.Nh3 c4 11.Be3 Qb4 (11.axb5 12.0-0-0 Qb4 is more usual) 12.0-0-0 axb5 13.Nf4 Ne7 14.Qf2!?ġ4.Qa5 15.Bb6 Qa6 16.Rxd5 (the rook can't be taken, otherwise a white knight will make it to c7) 16.Bc6Īnd to here we have been following Lim Chuin Hoong, Ronnie vs Wong Zi Jing, 2000 which continued 17.a3. In the game I played as white, we followed theory to the 16th move! It later turned out we'd studied the same opening text.
Whatthefat: In the last 2 rounds of the last tournament I went in, I had the rather strange experience of playing the f3 Benko as each colour, both times reaching the position after 1.d4 c5 2.d5 Nf6 3.c4 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.f3 e6 6.e4 exd5 7.e5 Qe7 8.Qe2 Ng8 9.Nc3 Bb7. Explore this opening | Search for sacrifices in this opening.