Dangerous Weapons:

The Benoni and Benko: Dazzle Your Opponents!

Richard Palliser, Gawain Jones

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• eBook ISBN:
  9781857447811
• Year: 2008

A new title in their much-admired Dangerous Weapons series, which specializes in supplying the reader with an abundance of hard-hitting opening ideas. Many of the carefully chosen weapons are innovative, visually shocking and incredibly tricky; they are guaranteed to throw even your most experienced opponent off balance.In this new book, four renowned opening experts examine the Benoni and the Benko, and select a number of original or little-explored variations for both colours. Whether playing White or Black, a study of this book will leave you confident and fully-armed, and your opponents running for cover!

Table of contents

• Preface
• Series Introduction
• 1 A Troublesome Check
• 2 The Sosonko-Kramnik Gambit
• 3 Radjabov’s Extended Queenside Fianchetto
• 4 Not Castling in the Modern Classical
• 5 Epishin’s Deadly 8 Qe2
• 6 A Direct and Powerful h-pawn Advance
• 7 Killing the Snake
• 8 The Super Extended Fianchetto
• 9 Adventures in the Blumenfeld Accepted
• 10 A Paradoxical Bishop Retreat
• 11 Tromping the Benko
• 12 Central Control
• 13 Dark-Square Magic
• 14 The Pseudo-Blumenfeld Gambit
• Index of Games
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• Azmaiparashvili.Z-Zubarev.A, European Club Cup, Pula 1999
• Buckley.D-Ward.C, British League 2004
• Epishin.V-Gofshtein.L, online blitz 2004
• Georgiev.K-Rogers.I, Biel Interzonal 1993
• Golod.V-Vallejo Pons.F, European Club Cup, Saint Vincent 2005
• Gordon.S-Djurhuus.R, Oslo 2008
• Grivas.E-Koerholz.L, European Club Cup, Rethymnon 2003
• Jakab.A-Predojevic.B, Budapest 2004
• Kramnik.V-Alekseev.E, Tal Memorial, Moscow 2007
• Miles.A-Bellon Lopez.J, Surakarta 1982
• Nikolic.P-Tindall.B, Gold Coast 2000
• Piket.J-Adams.M, Groningen 1995
• Skembris.S-Wojtaszek.R, Athens 2006
• Van Wessel.R-Ward.C, Ghent 2005
• Ward.C-Farleigh.R, Isle of Man 1996
• Ziyaev.N-Smerdon.D, Mallorca Olympiad 2004