The Modern Benoni is No Baloney: Part 1 – Chess Openings Explained

Jonathan Schrantz presents the first of three Modern Benoni lectures. The Benoni is a sharp 1. d4 opening. Part 1 focuses on the Taimanov Attack variation.

2016.06.06
Evgeny Bareev vs Veselin Topalov, Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (2002): A67 Benoni, Taimanov variation

30 Comments

  1. 10:40 its bishop to d4 not queen 🙂 also at 36:57 its h3 instead of h6 🙂

  2. 40:32 its not a pawn for a rook..its a knight and pawn for rook 🙂

  3. please colle zikerate

  4. Schrantz dealing with a tough audience with the a5 move ahhaha, well done…"we move on"

  5. Why doesn’t white play d6 on move 4?

  6. I don´t get the opening. No idea how to play this mysterious game of Benoni.

  7. 10:04 I don't get it.
    With c4 you will trade a rook for a bishop, where is the brilliance in the move c4?

  8. At 38:15, if WHite takes on e1 with the Queen and Black (as Jonathan proposes) plays…Nc2 forking Q and R, Black needs to know he doesn't mind the White reply Qe6+ followed by Ng5. Looks a bit nasty ….

  9. is it 2 much to ask to pronounce Fianchetto correctly?

  10. No one can afford to loose their Mother 👸🏽

  11. I lost a game playing black against this d4 c5 d5 , I almost smashed my head to the wall and resign and cry like Ben Finegold says

  12. Hey that's Jonathan Schrantz!

  13. What about the variation where exd6

  14. i'm trying to defeat stockfish l6 2300, it rarely ever plays book. you'll always lose in tactical positions. it'll out manouevre you, over work your pieces and go in for the kill

  15. 22:14 Never played the benoni before but maybe I should. Bxc3 was the first move I looked at. It's the only move that looks natural imo

  16. 32:02 Prophetic, man. This was 4 years ago. Look at what Schrantz is doing now

  17. 2:24 "Pawn skeleton" sounds so depressing for some reason :p

  18. and what happens if we cover the king not with a knight but with the bishop? White takes and trades the bishops and then moves pawn e5 or white immediately moves pawn e5, gets rid of knight on c6 and let's black take the bishop on B5. To be short: if black covers king with the bishop, who then trades the bishops?

  19. May I know what happens if the rook is taken at 10:10

  20. Thanks a lot for the instructive video great effort and precise explanation

  21. JOHNY SCHRANZ I LOVE UR VIDSSS

  22. This guy resembles Daniel Shiffman from The Coding Train!

  23. Love these lectures.Every moves is 100% Logic and J says its a crazy move. Hilarious.

  24. I didn't realize only boys played this opening! Guess I can skip it 😉

  25. Thumbs down! Only talks about the one thing opponents hardly ever do. Most of the time they just leave the pond. So they don't advance or eat. But users need to know what to do if they eat or do nothing. Not as much when advancing.

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