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Gerardo YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 17 Joined: 02/21/10 Gender:	Re: Coverage of the Snake Benoni [A60] Reply #3 - 01/02/11 at 12:57:14	Post Tools	Print Post
	The Complete Benoni, by Psakhis, devotes 3 pages to the Snake. The evaluation is, of course, slightly better for white, but that shouldn't be discouraging. By the way, IIRC Gashimov tends to play it against much lower rated players, which can also be seen as discouraging (he doesn't consider it good enough for prime time) or encouraging (most of us play with much lower rated players than Gashimov).


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	Gerardo wrote on 01/02/11 at 10:06:19: HoemberChess wrote on 01/02/11 at 00:00:34: What do you think I should study to feel encouraged as Black? Gashimov's games maybe? Maybe. I have printed a lot of Miezis-games on the subject. I miss annotations.

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	HoemberChess wrote on 01/02/11 at 00:00:34: What do you think I should study to feel encouraged as Black? Gashimov's games maybe?


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Coverage of the Snake Benoni [A60]
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As Black, I would at times play this position as a complement to the Nimzo Indian,
after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3: 3..c5 4.d5 exd5 5.cxd5 Bd6.

I have found books encouraging White:
* Dangerous Weapons: The Benoni and Benko (Ch. 07, "Killing the Snake")
* Beating the Fianchetto Defences by Grivas
* Play 1.d4 by Palliser

What do you think I should study to feel encouraged as Black?

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*W 1d4) Torre/Barry/Pirc/Philidor/ early _d5:early c4(QGD/Slav/QGD/etc)
*B) 1e4:e6 [+1_c5 2Nf3 a6]| 1d4:e6 2c4 Bb4+ BID/pseudoNID [+1_Nf6 NID]| 1c4:c5,_Nc6,_e5,_g6| 1Nf3:c5

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