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Czech Benoni player against Kramnik's repertoir
04/29/08 at 14:50:24
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I always wanted to try the Czech Bnoni but i had problems with this option because i didn't want to play the main lines of symetricall english after 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 followed by g6 or e6. These set-ups have nothing to do with the structures arising after the Czech.
 I played recently a rapid event and i wanted to try some new ideas i had about how to reach similar structures with the Czech and generally to play originally against the solid Kramnik's (or Khalifman's if you prefer) repertoire which i have employed it myself for some years now. So i present to you two of my games which i think present a novel aproach. Enjoy!

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nc3  d6 4. d4 Nbd7 5. e4 (5.g3 e5 again!) 5...e5 6. dxe5 dxe5 7. Be2
(This is the analysis from the post-mortem: 7. Bg5 Be7 8. Bxf6 Bxf6 9. Be2 O-O 10. O-O Re8 11. Qc2 b6 12. Rfd1 Bb7 13. Nd5
(13. Nb5 Bc6 14. Nd6 Re6 is no problem) 13... Qc8
14. Nd2 Qc6 15. Nb1 Nf8 16. Nbc3 Bd8 17. b4 cxb4 18. Nxb4 Qg6 19. c5 bxc5 20.Nbd5 Ne6 and Black is fine)
7... Be7 8. O-O O-O 9. b3 b6 10. Bb2 Re8 11. Qc2 Bd6 12. Rfd1 Bb8 13.a4 a5 14. Nb5 Bb7 15. Bd3 Nf8 16. Rd2 Ne6 17. Rad1 Nd4 Black is fine and eventually i won after some mistakes in mutual time trouble...

This is my second game:

3. g3 d6 4. Bg2 e5 5. d3 h6 6. Nc3 Be7 7. O-O O-O
8. Ne1 Nbd7 9. Nc2 a6 10. Ne3 Rb8 11. a4 Re8 12. Bd2 b6 13. b3 Nf8 14. Ncd5 Ne6
15. a5 b5 16. Nxf6+ Bxf6 17. Nd5 Nc7 18. Nxf6+ Qxf6 19. Be3 Bb7 agreed drawn due to the favourable tournament position but i think Black can still play for the win!

Even though this set-up looks suspect i managed not only to survive but also to score 1,5/2 against strong opposition! I think i got resonable positions after the opening and i had good winning chances both times.Untill now none has demonstrated to me a clearly favourable position for white. Can you? Wink
  
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