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Re: Black's Gambit vs. Anti-Benoni
Reply #7 - 08/16/05 at 05:12:14
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I actually thought 4...e5 was Black's main line here.

Carsten Hansen makes a good case for 4...b6!? in his book on the Symmetrical English.  But the main lines are 4...e6 and 4...Nc6.
  
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Re: Black's Gambit vs. Anti-Benoni
Reply #6 - 08/16/05 at 02:56:15
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I actually thought 4...e5 was Black's main line here.  I played a G/60 game as White in which I won a pawn after his premature ...e4 and should have won the game against a 2200 (he ended up playing some excellent defense and scraped a draw in time trouble), so I haven't worried too much about it.  I'm going to have to go back and do some research on this line too.   

Gee, thanks a lot!  Wink
  
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Re: Black's Gambit vs. Anti-Benoni
Reply #5 - 08/09/05 at 20:48:13
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1. d4 Nf6  2. c4 c5  3. Nf3 cxd4  4. Nxd4 e5. This gambit has a reasonable reputation and pedigree. Even a young Kasparov was known to try this on occasion.

There was a lengthy article on it in a NIC Yearbook sometime back.

Conclusion eminently playable.

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Re: Black's Gambit vs. Anti-Benoni
Reply #4 - 08/09/05 at 10:42:00
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When I used to play the Volga-Benkö Gambit, I intended to play 4...e5 also. Alas I never got the chance. I recall a NIC-yearbook having a survey on this. The conclusion was: reasonable chances for Black.
I completely agree with Markovich, that modern chess contains a lot of intriguing gambit stuff. BTW, the BDG is not even that old. The several Marshall Gambits are older!
  
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Re: Black's Gambit vs. Anti-Benoni
Reply #3 - 08/08/05 at 20:47:34
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I thought 8.h3 was good until I saw a game go 8...Bf5 9. g4 Be4 10.f3 Nxe4!.  Check out chesscafe.com.  The "Gambit Cartel" collumn shows a bunch of games in this line, although I'm not sure if they are really that critical.  Maybe the Postney-Smirin game is a good one.
  
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Re: Black's Gambit vs. Anti-Benoni
Reply #2 - 08/08/05 at 20:30:15
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Sorry, I play ...e6 instead...


Oh wow!  At last someone finally answered!

But seriously, instead of all this blather about the decrepit old BDG, I wish we could enlist Lev Zilbermints and his ilk in research on topics, such as this one, genuinely relevant to modern theory.

This line, by the way, goes to prove my point that modern chess is full of interesting gambits.
  
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Re: Black's Gambit vs. Anti-Benoni
Reply #1 - 08/08/05 at 09:27:53
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Sorry, I play ...e6 instead...
  
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Black's Gambit vs. Anti-Benoni
05/17/05 at 14:19:24
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The topic is 1. d4 Nf6  2. c4 c5  3. Nf3 cxd4  4. Nxd4 e5.  If you look in, say, Chess Assistant's big database, you will see that 4...e5 is played more often than anything else, and that it has good statistics.  But the theoretical consensus seems to be that Black's game may be a little dicey.   

I have some questions that I hope visitors here will take the time to consider.   

(1)  The main line is 5. Nb5 d5  6. cxd5 Bc5  7. N5c3 O-O  8. e3 e4  9. Be2 Qe7  10. Nd2  Does Black have full compensation?

(2)  Instead of 10. Nd2, is 10. g4 a good idea?  Some say so, but it appears to me that Black is doing well enough after 10...Rd8  11. g5 Ne8  12. Nd2 Bf5  13. Bg4 Qxg5.  A related idea would be 10. a3 a5  11. g4 as in Dorfman-Glavina, Monaco 2002.

(3)  Instead of 8. e3, is 8. h3, as proposed by Neil McDonald in "Starting Out: The English," any good?  He gives 8...e4  9. g4 intending Bg2 and avows that 9...e3 is unconvincing.

I post this here and not on the Benoni board because it really is a Symmetrical English.
  
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