Glenn Snow wrote on 04/13/15 at 02:20:25:


Glenn, could you tell us if the Carpathian Warrior is worth buying or it's better to stick to Henley's book(s) when wondering about playing "Dzindzi". 
What do you think about 1. d4 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3. e4 d6 4. Nc3 f5 line? It's the Dutch Leningrad where Black allowed e4.

TonyRo wrote on 04/02/15 at 18:38:12:


The Carpathian Warrior 2 still hasn't arrived yet, although it should be any day now.  The Henley books have a lot of information in them and the price has come down a lot since he published them.  Almost too much material really.  One streamlined book could have been made in fewer pages than one of the books that still showed the best lines for Black.  If you like a lot of game examples with annotations then you might like this format.

I went ahead and ordered Carpathian Warrior 2 although it was written before the Henley books.  I'm not at home now so I can't check to see if it's listed in the bibliography.  For the record, I was wrong about Henley not publishing a book on what to do if White avoids the Dzindzi Indian ("The Chaos Counter Attack" - Carpathian Warrior).  In 2013 he published a book covering various Benoni variations and "Carlsen's secret anti-English system".

TN wrote on 03/17/15 at 21:44:06:


Agreed.

1. d4 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3. Nc3 c5 4. d5 Bc3 5. bc f5 6. e4! fe 7. f3 d6 8. fe Nf6 9. Qc2

Looks like a decent +/= or better for White.

Fritz seems to like 7. ... e6 getting the Queen active but White seems strong in these variations as well.

The best text for this is probably Carpathian Warrior, book 2. 
A slightly odd book, but loaded with good stuff on this, and actually rather interesting.

For your delectation, comrades:
https://www.newinchess.com/Carpathian_Warrior_2-p-1666.html

TN wrote on 03/17/15 at 21:44:06:

I literally just searched up this line in Chessbase and started looking at it (I have little experience with the Dzindi-Indian, I just think it's a cool opening), but it seems like Black has held fairly easily in some Correspondence games after the weird looking 7...e5!?, the critical line seeming to be 8.Qc2 d6 9.fxe4 Qh4+!? (reminiscent of the old Watson suggestion in the Taimanov Modern Benoni) 10.g3 Qe7, etc. Engines prefer White somewhat, but I'm not even sure about that - Black has less space, yes, but he's traded off his bad bishop and left White with a worse (but at the moment not particularly relevant) pawn structure, and he's very solid. You almost have to prefer the knights here, as both of White's bishops are fairly inactive. Makes your wonder if Arnaudov's 11.Bh3!? is the best try. Anyway, here are the games:









Perhaps White can try something different along the way, or he simply hasn't found the best plan after Black's 7...e5!?, but it doesn't seem so grim to me at a quick glance...

I keep hearing rumors that this opening (Dzindzi Indian) has been refuted (or maybe just very uncomfortable) but I'm unaware of published analysis that shows as much.  (All the repertoire books I've seen give 3.e4 instead of 3.Nc3 to avoid the Dzindzi, however I then think Black can equalize with 3...Nc6!  A bold claim I know but I'll believe it till shown otherwise.)   

Anyone willing to share a strong method for White against the Dzindzi?

fan1972 wrote on 05/25/09 at 22:52:55:


Well, I once had a very nice win with 5.bxc3 f5 (which is the point, I believe) 6.e4 fxe4 7.f3 Nf6 8.Qc2.  I soon played fxe4 and was eventually able to seize control of the f-file.  It's useful to remember that 8...Qa5 9.fxe4 Nxe4? fails to 10.Bd3. 

I still have faith in this line, but there are some strong players here who claim that White should not allow Black to play this way, but should instead play 3.e4.