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Smyslov_Fan God Member Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 4672	Re: What is the best way to meet the Benko/Volga? Reply #30 - 02/07/10 at 20:22:45 Thanks Antillian! I've enjoyed many of Georgiev's games, so I will certainly be interested in this book. As an aside, I grew weary of the Budapest books that seemed never to find a good idea for white. It may be refreshing to see a strong GM champion the first player in these lines.
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kylemeister God Member Offline Insert witty and/or pithy saying here Posts: 2176 USA	Re: What is the best way to meet the Benko/Volga? Reply #31 - 02/07/10 at 20:43:27 Efstratios Grivas had an article proposing a White repertoire against the Budapest in the Yearbook a few volumes ago.
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Re: What is the best way to meet the Benko/Volga?
Reply #32 - 02/08/10 at 12:17:07

Antillian wrote on 02/06/10 at 23:40:50:

Chess Stars will be releasing a book next month apparently. Should be interesting for Benko haters like me.

Squeezing the Gambits: the Benko, Budapest, Albin and Bluemenfeld by Kiril Georgiev - a positional repertoire for White

Great news! I'm looking forward to this book.

I've been using the Qc2 line (see fairly recent NiC yb) in blitz games but I'll surely take a close look at Georgiev's suggestions.

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Re: What is the best way to meet the Benko/Volga?
Reply #33 - 04/05/10 at 07:29:49

I've been continuing to use 10.Rb1 in correspondence games and have so far scored 100%.

But now, someone's played 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cb5 a6 5.ba6 Ba6 6.Nc3 g6 7.Nf3 Bg7 8.g3 0-0 9.Bg2 d6 10.Rb1 Nbd7 11.0-0 Qa5 12.Bd2 Rfb8 13.Qc2 Ng4 (13...Nb6 is discussed elsewhere) 14.b3 Nge5 15.Ne5 and now instead of the normal 15...Ne5, leading to a nice position for White, my opponent played 15...Be5!?

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The idea is 16.a4 c4! and Black has managed quite well!

So I tried 16.Ne4 Qa3 (again, see the 13...Nb6 line) 17.Bc3 c4! and Black managed to get sufficient counterplay.

Is there a known antidote to 15...Be5?

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Smyslov_Fan God Member Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 4672	Re: What is the best way to meet the Benko/Volga? Reply #34 - 04/05/10 at 07:30:20 Any idea why the diagram didn't post properly? Thanks to Papageno for helping me! (I had an extra line in the fen.)
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Re: What is the best way to meet the Benko/Volga?
Reply #35 - 04/05/10 at 15:27:31

FWIW, Avrukh gives 15 Ne1! as the only way to an advantage (he thinks black is ok after 15 Nxe5 Nxe5. One point is that the queen is defended so 15...c4?! 16 b4 Rxb4?! loses to 17 Ne4 so 17...Qa4 doesn't help. His main line is 15 Ne1 Qa3 16 h3 when f4 is a threat and after the white queen moves Nc2 hits the black queen. I haven't looked at this in detail but Avrukh has 2 pages on analysis on this line.

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Re: What is the best way to meet the Benko/Volga?
Reply #36 - 07/05/10 at 15:35:45

Antillian wrote on 02/06/10 at 23:40:50:

Chess Stars will be releasing a book next month apparently. Should be interesting for Benko haters like me.

Squeezing the Gambits: the Benko, Budapest, Albin and Bluemenfeld by Kiril Georgiev - a positional repertoire for White

Looks like an interesting book from the intro - against the Benko he recommends a sophisticated move-order of 4.Nf3 and only if 4...g6 then going into the b6 stuff: 5.cxb5 a6 6.b6. This gives Black more options but apparently he is a bit concerned by 4.cxb5 a6 5.b6 e6!? It all looks like very sensible stuff for White, although I doubt Benko players will be quaking in their boots either.

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Re: What is the best way to meet the Benko/Volga?
Reply #37 - 07/05/10 at 21:01:08

Keano wrote on 07/05/10 at 15:35:45:

Antillian wrote on 02/06/10 at 23:40:50:

Chess Stars will be releasing a book next month apparently. Should be interesting for Benko haters like me.

Squeezing the Gambits: the Benko, Budapest, Albin and Bluemenfeld by Kiril Georgiev - a positional repertoire for White

Looks like an interesting book from the intro - against the Benko he recommends a sophisticated move-order of 4.Nf3 and only if 4...g6 then going into the b6 stuff: 5.cxb5 a6 6.b6. This gives Black more options but apparently he is a bit concerned by 4.cxb5 a6 5.b6 e6!? It all looks like very sensible stuff for White, although I doubt Benko players will be quaking in their boots either.

You’re may be right in that it might not have Benko players quaking, no cutting-edge theory trying to outright refute black’s play, but its finally given me a line against the Benko that I feel comfortable with. The Benko has always been an opening that I just didn’t “get.” No matter what I tried, it failed miserably. Whenever it appeared on the board, I always felt like immediately resigning. Since getting the book, I’ve only faced the Benko in online blitz, but I feel like I finally know what I’m playing for and my results against it have improved markedly. I think this is an excellent work by Georgiev. The Main Ideas section of the Benko chapter is worth the price alone.

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Re: What is the best way to meet the Benko/Volga?
Reply #38 - 07/06/10 at 02:31:37

I agree with GrizzleBazzle. The Georgiev book is excellent. He presents a more straightforward way of playing the ..b6 lines than Palliser did in Play 1.d4, and puts some teeth in this system. Along the way, he rehabilitates several lines that were thought to be fine for Black, improving on existing analysis by Knaak, Flear and others. I've yet to get through the whole book -- there's a lot here -- but I've been impressed so far.

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Question: Which continuation is the best against the Benko/Volga
Accepted with bxa6 and e4+g3 6 (7.8%) Accepted with bxa6 and e4+h3 5 (6.5%) Accepted with bxa6 and Nf3+Nd2 3 (3.9%) Accepted with bxa6 and f4 2 (2.6%) Accepted with bxa6 and g3 15 (19.5%) Accepted - The Zaitsev (5.Nc3) 4 (5.2%) Accepted - The Dlugy (5.f3) 8 (10.4%) Accepted with 5. b6 21 (27.3%) Other accepted 1 (1.3%) Refused 12 (15.6%) Total votes: 77 « Created by: thibdb13 on: 01/22/09 at 19:49:32 »

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