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Re: The Benkö Gambit in CC tournament game
Reply #3 - 05/07/12 at 21:53:55
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I played the same line as black recently in CC. I deviated from your line with 15...Qd7 and after 16.a4 Rfb8 17.Qc2 Ra7 18.Ra3 Qf5!? (with the funny point 19.e4 Qxf2+ and black forces a draw) the game was eventually drawn. Even though I think that black equalized it was hard work to make that happen, and I never felt I had any real winning chances in CC. In an OTB game though it would definitely be play for all three results. In general I think that if white does not play Rb1 and allows this line black should be able to hold the balance.
  
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Re: The Benkö Gambit in CC tournament game
Reply #2 - 05/05/12 at 10:34:51
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Thank you for a first smoking signal, I put in a note in my annotations for future.
On the other hand: 9...Nbd7 was played in 12 of 14 games in a CC 2450+ games archive and in 10 of 13 games in a GM 2650+ games archive since 2005, and was confirmed by own large analysis where I analysed 8 alternatives except 9...Nfd7.

My main point: were it not worth to search for positions by chesspublishing.com as mentioned in my game notation, and as Alterman recommended?
  
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Re: The Benkö Gambit in CC tournament game
Reply #1 - 05/05/12 at 02:22:45
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Pedersen in Play the Benko Gambit (Everyman, 2011) recommends 9...Nfd7 followed by ...Nb6 and ...N8d7 instead of 9...Nbd7 (based on an article by Sergey Kasparov in New in Chess Yearbook #94). Might be worth a try.
  
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The Benkö Gambit in CC tournament game
05/04/12 at 22:03:39
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Hi Glenn,
it seems there are some difficulties emailing to you. That's why in this way ...

While preparing another recent CC tournament I chose this time the Benkö Gambit without any own experience, just wishing to surprise my opponent.
But I got into a pretty mess although using Alterman's recent book on the Benkö Gambit and all chesspublishing.com analysis.
Please, have a look on my game as enclosed, with comments.
What do you think about my play in the game so far?
I wished you could do something on the Benkö Gambit, especially some search after reaching significant positions as mentioned below.



Again: I suggest to start some searching at specific positions as e.g. Alterman does refer to. At time chesspublishing.com's searching stops where Alterman suggest to start!

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