Bibs wrote on 11/17/07 at 13:11:30:


Ah faulty memory me. Actually Dautov's article (yearbook 77) was on 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 g6 4. Nc3 Bg7 5. e4 d6 6. Nf3 0-0 7. Bd3 e6 8. 0-0 ed5 9. ed5 Bg4 10. h3 Bxf3 11. Qxf3 Nbd7 12. Qd1 Nh5!  (idea 13. g4 Bxc3 14. bxc3 Ng7 15. f4 f5). But the discussion therein is relevant for the classical KID anyway, as the plans in this pawn structure are quite one-dimensional.

I've never played 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 c5 7. d5 e6 8. 0-0 ed5 9. ed5 for White. Not long ago Dautov even wrote a NIC yearbook article claiming 9... Nh5! equalises for Black.  I suppose Whites plan is to go b2-b4 or f4-f5 at some point, but I'm really skeptical if a resourceful defender can't hold the position (see Topalov-Radjabov: although that game started with 5. Bd3 it ended up with a similar pawn structure in a few more moves, and a Black victory after White overpressed). 

I certainly prefer 9. cd5 over 9. ed5, as i think White has an edge in *any* variation of the Benoni, by virtue of having an extra centre pawn, but that's purely a personal opinion. In most games so far I've played 7. 0-0 with fair results.

Recently I watched Tiviakov's Maroczy DVD, and yes while his analysis is impressive his delivery is horrendous. He speaks like a robot. Does he really talk like that in real life?!? 

Bibs,

Oh yes, I like that QG book too.

I was referring to the Active Repertoire book, which is like a remake of the book he did with Parma, with a different repertoire (Scheveningen and of course KID -- i.e. not a choice of defenses as in the Parma book).  As for the older KID book, I can't really say, but from just looking at it briefly years ago, I was less taken with it.

I'm also very fond of "Dynamic Pawn Play in Chess" (which came out about a decade after Active Repertoire).  I would think you might want to put that at the top of your Marovic list; it also has a lot of Sicilian and KID stuff.

For the Benoni line, I checked up on it and found that White plays d5 exd5, exd5. 

However, I do not really know what to play in these lines. I mean, in the Modern Benoni, the knight can move to c4, and then play for a e5 break. However, I dont know what to do here. I dont want to play cxd5 because I dont know how to play the Be2 variation of the Benoni. 

Can you give me some ideas or thematic moves, Andrew Brett?

Davies briefly discusses this in his ...d6 'universal' DVD.

Is this the best line?

After 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2: 

The mainline is 6...e5, but what happens after 6...c5?