A Detailed Guide to the Czech Benoni
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The Benoni is one of the most popular, most interesting, most aggressive, and, at the same time, riskiest defenses black could choose to play against d4. For an introduction to the opening, watch this video on the basics: • Introduction to the Be...
Its name has come from the Hebrew term “Ben Oni”, meaning son of sorrow, which depicts the defense perfectly. It can lead to quick, interesting wins, but it can also horribly backfire and you could get punished very quickly.
The Czech Benoni, also known as the Old Benoni, is the trickiest of them all to play. Why? Well, you have to know what you’re doing, simply put. It’s an opening which requires almost no theoretical knowledge, but you absolutely have to know the plans and patterns in it if you want to play it successfully.
Black’s play is going to revolve around piece maneuvers and pawn break preparation, while playing with less space and less piece activity. You might be wondering why anyone would play such a position in the first place. Well, if black does manage to break the position open and activate his pieces, he will often be much better.
The Czech Benoni is risky, it’s fun, and it’s an opening in which a better and more experienced player will usually win. It is also one of the best openings for improving positional and strategic play. You have ti play it with a plan in mind on each move or you lose, that is great for improvement!
Since the Czech Benoni relies so heavily on plans and patterns, this is the first time I covered almost no theory in a theoretical video. Instead I used example games to show you some common plans for both sides. This is not enough to be able to play it successfully. My advice is that you take 20-30 more games and analyze them yourself. That will be the easiest way to get better at the Czech Benoni.
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Thematic games for analysis: - Lev Polugaevsky vs Genrikh Kasparian, 1956 USSR Ch. - Lev Psakhis vs Uwe Boensch, 1983 Keres Memorial - Lajos Portisch vs Josef Hajtun, 1955 Hungarian Ch. - Gennadi Sosonko vs Miguel Quinteros, 1977 IBM Tournament - Svetozar Gligoric vs Theodor Ghitescu, 1967 Hoogovens - Yasser Seirawan vs Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov, 2002 US Ch. - Etienne Bacrot vs Thomas Heinatz, 1999 Bundesliga - Hans Ree vs Anthony J Miles, 1987 Ter Apel - Paul Keres vs Efim Geller, 1962 Candidates Playoff - Ludek Pachman vs Victor Ciocaltea, 1966 - Dorin Rogozenko vs Yasser Seirawan, 2001 Netherlands Team Ch. - Hans Hermesmann vs Anthony J Miles, 1988 Bundesliga - Yuri Averbakh vs Victor Alexandrovic Liublinsky, 1952 Moscow Ch. - Walter Browne vs Benjamin Finegold, 1994 Las Vegas Open - Mark Taimanov vs Efim Geller, 1961 USSR Ch.
@Lembong_Official
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@HangingPawns
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@Lembong_Official
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This is probably your best opening video. Congratulations on finishing another series!
Excellent explanation of the plans for the Czech Benoni. Thanks Stepjan. But to call Maia Chiburdanidze a "fairly unknown player" (41:00) is a faux pas. She is the sixth Women's World Chess Champion, a title she held from 1978 to 1991.
Without a doubt, the best chess teaching channel on YT, excellent work!
Thanks you for this video, hard to find material about the Czech benoni, playing it since months and still learning new things.
Absolutely incredible video, thank you! Taking the key set of themes, for both sides, rather than just specific lines, was a super helpful way to understand this opening. Well done sir!
Congrats on finishing another series! Can't wait for the qcd and c4 series!
The Miles-Seirawan draw at 18:24 happened in the SWIFT tournament in Brussels, 1986. SWIFT was a telecommunications company. I had a book of all the games in that tournament at one time. SWIFT was, for a couple of years anyway, considered the Wimbledon of chess and invited the top players of the day to its tournament. The '86 tournament was won by Karpov. The following year, in '87, it was won by Kasparov, and then it was no more.
Ive been waiting for a year for this. Beautiful
One of the highest quality free chess opening video on youtube.
Absolutely fantastic content Stepjan!
great stuff as always
That irksome challenger was very persistent 😂
I really like the layout of themes and setups you used here as opposed to move orders
Great video. Flohr-Larsen is a good example for those keen on the Black side. Larsen mixes it up by playing both pawn breaks in quick succession and this seems to confuse Flohr completely.
Very good chess channel.Thanks for all your effort.
Really kool & informative video. Detailed explanations as well - many thanks.
This is gold really great stuff 👍
Who's here because he was a budapest defense/gambit player and czech benoni is one of the variations? Btw love ur videos.
Great overview of this opening. One thing - At 41:10 you say that Maya CHiburdanidze is a fairly unknown player but there was a player with that name who was women's world champion for a number of years defeating Nona Gaprindashvili. Was this the same person - if so, not exactly an "unknown". But thanks again for all the content of this video
Here is a funny Czech Benoni (King's Indian system) between Stockfish (white) and LeelaChessZero (black) that Stockfish totally misplayed: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e5 4. Nc3 d6 5. e4 g6 6. Be2 Qe7 7. Bg5 h6 8. Bd2 h5 9. h3 Bh6 10. Bxh6 Rxh6 11. Nf3 Rh8 12. O-O Nbd7 13. Ne1 g5 14. Qa4 Kf8 15. Qd1 Kg7 16. Qd2 Ng8 17. Nc2 Nf8 18. Rab1 Ng6 19. a3 Nf4 20. b4 b6 21. Ne3 g4 22. bxc5 bxc5 23. Bd1 Nh6 24. Kh2 Qg5 25. Ba4 h4 26. Kh1 gxh3 27. g3 Bg4 28. Bd1 Bxd1 29. Rbxd1 hxg3 30. fxg3 Qxg3 31. Ne2 Nxe2 32. Qxe2 Qh4 33. Qf3 Rag8 34. Rf2 Rh7 35. Rg1+ Kh8 36. Rxg8+ Kxg8 37. Qf6 Qxe4+ 38. Kh2 Rh8 39. Rf3 Qxe3 40. Rg3+ Qxg3+ 41. Kxg3 h2 42. Qg5+ Kf8 43. Qd8+ Kg7 44. Qg5+ Kh7 45. Kxh2 Re8 46. Qg3 e4 47. Qxd6 e3 48. Qg3 e2 49. Qe1 f5 50. Kh1 Re4 51. d6 Nf7
Please do Queens Gambit videos
Do you have a video about d4 c5, d5 e5, Nc3
26:27 Qd2 Kf8, Bh6+! ....(...Kg8) Would this not throw a spanner in the works?
This is funny, completely got it wrong about Karpov-Seirawan. Karpov was winnig all along, never worse with a +30.00 evaluation in the final position. He lost because he flagged (blitz game), but he played it excellently and got a wonderful position, as expected from Karpov
13:51
I absolutely love how czech benoni is +1.5 = super solid And tennyson gambit is -0.9 = let's refute it XD
Is this even playable at 1400-1500? I think I will die
@stevenodonoghue6856
3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely anything is playable at 1400-1500
@flippert0
3 жыл бұрын
@@stevenodonoghue6856 ^this, lol