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Reply #49 - 10/14/12 at 09:46:58
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The book is out now. pdf sample pages available.
  

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Reply #48 - 09/29/12 at 11:09:46
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Me too!
  
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Reply #47 - 09/29/12 at 11:01:21
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Yet another book is on the way; S. Kasparovs Benko book  from New In Chess will be published 15 october, and not 15 desember as it said in the add. 

Kasparov has played the Benko "all his life" so im really looking foreward to this book. 

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Reply #46 - 09/22/12 at 09:04:02
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Thanks, I will add the book to my later buy list and have a look at it later.
  
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Reply #45 - 09/21/12 at 21:07:21
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bragesjo wrote on 09/21/12 at 06:57:04:
I am a bit interested in Blumenfeld, but more as a companion to Nimzo and not to Benko since I actually play a few Nimzo lines in Blumenfeld style. Any opinions about he recommendations against Bg5? According to my clubmates that is the critical line and supposed to be better for white? Not that I have time to study new openings before winter (endgames has heigher priorery) but winter is comming soon.


According to Aveskulov and his novelty its ... suprise suprise... a draw. But up to move 20 or so, both sides has to know what they are doing, as always. Before that, anything can happen! 

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Kaufmans 5.Bf4 is not even metioned. Miles-variation is prehaps more to the point. I find it hard to believe that 5.Bf4 is the end of Blumenfeld. But as a suprise to the suprise weapon, yes!  Smiley

The counter gambit 5.e4 is mentioned in a note, and ends with unclear play. 
  

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Reply #44 - 09/21/12 at 08:24:06
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Kaufman suggests 5.Bf4 against the Blumenfeld and I think it's quite good (of course I did my own research here, I don't trust something because Kaufman says so). I also think the counter-gambit 5.e4 is fully playable
  
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Reply #43 - 09/21/12 at 06:57:04
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I am a bit interested in Blumenfeld, but more as a companion to Nimzo and not to Benko since I actually play a few Nimzo lines in Blumenfeld style. Any opinions about he recommendations against Bg5? According to my clubmates that is the critical line and supposed to be better for white? Not that I have time to study new openings before winter (endgames has heigher priorery) but winter is comming soon.
  
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Reply #42 - 09/18/12 at 20:02:11
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Oblonskij wrote on 09/18/12 at 13:31:57:
Benoniac, can you please say how many pages are allotted to the Blumenfeld and 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nf3, respectively? And what his main suggestion against the 5. Bg5 Blumenfeld is?


Yes, no prob  
The book format is A5
Blumenfeld early deviations/accepted is 13 pages in all, and 8 pages devoted to the ML with 5.dxe6-fxe6 6.cxb5-d5, and so on. A personal note here: 6...a6!? may also interest you, but its not covered in the book.

Blumenfeld with 5.Bg5 is 10 pages, starting with: 5...exd5 6.cxd5  (6.cxb5!? in a note) d6. Here he`s  covering the moves: 
7.e3!?
7.a4
7.e4 
and very consentrated on the ML with 7.e4.
(@ErictheRed: he follwos the game: van Wely-Feigin, Dutch Team ch 2008/9, but deviates on move 20) 

The 1.d4-Sf6 2.c4-c5 3.Sf3 line, which he names "The Vaganian gambit", is spilt in two chapters; each on 12 pages each.   First chaper covers the possibillities up to 7.N5c3 or 7.N1c3. The other cover the ML with 7.e3. 

My impression is that the lines Aveskulov gives is very ML orientated  and/or direct. For example, in the Benkø  he gives 9...Nbd7 against the 10.Rb1 line.  He aslo seems very objective. 

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Reply #41 - 09/18/12 at 17:07:34
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I'd also like to know what his coverage of the Blumenfeld consists of.  I'd play it (possibly as a companion to the Nimzo) if I felt comfortable after 5.Bg5, which I do not.
  
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Reply #40 - 09/18/12 at 13:31:57
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Benoniac, can you please say how many pages are allotted to the Blumenfeld and 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nf3, respectively? And what his main suggestion against the 5. Bg5 Blumenfeld is?
  
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Re: Another Benko book on the way ....
Reply #39 - 09/15/12 at 22:52:15
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Markovich wrote on 09/15/12 at 11:29:51:
Stigma wrote on 09/13/12 at 23:22:27:
There does seem to be a consensus among titled players recently that 4.Qc2 bxc4 is the way to go, and now 5.e4 d6 (a few people played 5...Ba6!? instead) 6.Bxc4 g6 7.Nf3 Bg7 8.0-0 0-0 Both Moskalenko and Watson like White (but for different reasons) but Black is doing OK in practice. Though I notice that a couple of Black's recent wins were blitz and rapid games with some rather strange play from White. 

Perhaps that's just what the Benko is; a great practical choice in blitz and rapid, and against not-too-booked-up opponents!?


I don't think it's a question of being booked up, unless White wants to play 5.f3 or perhaps 5.e3.  In most cases, it's a question of knowing what to do.


Dont quite get your point here. Is 5.f3 or 5.e3 is by far the most theoretic?
  

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Reply #38 - 09/15/12 at 22:13:31
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Lauri Torni wrote on 09/14/12 at 07:56:16:
Does the book look overall reasonable?

I got the book today, and I must "bite i grasset" as we say here in Norway. It means that I was wrong, and the pill that I must swallow, i will have to do in shame. 
Its still fresh, but Aveskulov is giving a real confident impression. But! Haven`t checked teh Blumenfelds chapters though. I presume that  the benkø part will be loved by benkø players!   

Anyway. I surely think this book is worth the buy. 

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Re: Another Benko book on the way ....
Reply #37 - 09/15/12 at 11:29:51
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Stigma wrote on 09/13/12 at 23:22:27:
There does seem to be a consensus among titled players recently that 4.Qc2 bxc4 is the way to go, and now 5.e4 d6 (a few people played 5...Ba6!? instead) 6.Bxc4 g6 7.Nf3 Bg7 8.0-0 0-0 Both Moskalenko and Watson like White (but for different reasons) but Black is doing OK in practice. Though I notice that a couple of Black's recent wins were blitz and rapid games with some rather strange play from White. 

Perhaps that's just what the Benko is; a great practical choice in blitz and rapid, and against not-too-booked-up opponents!?


I don't think it's a question of being booked up, unless White wants to play 5.f3 or perhaps 5.e3.  In most cases, it's a question of knowing what to do.
  

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Reply #36 - 09/15/12 at 05:31:31
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Oh, THAT mainline!  Embarrassed  Aveskulov covers 12.h3 and 12.Re1 in the 'King Walk' but not 12.a4 or 12.Qe2 as far as I can tell.
  
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Reply #35 - 09/14/12 at 14:09:55
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Your`re not wrong  Smiley

Kxf1, g3.Kg2 and 12.a4. So the old ML it is. Thx for clear this up.

Thought I said so.. Chess is hard!

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