Classical variation 8:27 Modern variation 15:50 Fianchetto variation 23:30 Mikenas attack 30:28 Taimanov variation 37:22 Four pawns attack 41:21 Knaak variation 44:08 Kapengut variation 48:27 Uhlmann variation 49:40 Thanks for your awesome contribution to the chess community! Great video as always!
As this Video comes to close I must Comment one more time. It's simply an exhaustive piece of work completely addressing all contingencies to insure an effective Defense. Such a Great work ethic is invaluable to the committed student! This Video offering is admired & Greatly Appreciated! Thank You, .. Mike.
Dear ChessMaster I don't know your name, my Name is Ricardo, but I want to thank you because I have studied the Benoni video series, I did not have the knowledge to play it .. Thank you for your work! he has no waste and his knowledge is invaluable! a cordial greeting from Argentina
Great video as always although i would suggest that when going over a variation it would be great to suggest an instructions game(s) in that variation thanks!
@@HangingPawns I know im asking a question about a video from 2 years ago, but what should i do when someone plays some strange moves and not follow theory?
@@vladimirlenin693 You should follow through with an engine, looking to see how it punishes the move. Do try to understand the moves it makes, but it should be fine if you don’t completely understand something like a quiet queen or knight move. Eventually you will be able to incorporate the moves it gives you into your own games. The Benoni has very similar ideas so you shouldn’t need to struggle much.
Great to be back benefiting once again. This time it was Kasparov that first grabbed my attention for the Beoni as I continue looking for repertoire "All" Against the London. So grateful for your methods of instruction here as they are both clear and strong in that the foundations layered lead to outcome proving most solidly helpful for those of us trying to learn new openings from scratch. Your Ch. is favored for these & other reasons to also include a pleasant Host Demeanor that again, is another very helpul factor for the student. A Huge Thumbs up for you as usual with Much Thanks!! It's a real pleasure to share out to others such an excellent, effective and pleasant source. As Always, Blessings Your Way from Oregon! ... Mike.
thanks for the entire playlist, i cannot describe how much i appreciate such a detailed explanation for an opening like this helping save a lot more time with staring at engine lines and trying to understand them i will use the benoni as one of my main weapons against d4 for the rest of my time playing chess
One suggestion would be to add timestamps for each of the main variations, also perhaps to organize them from worst to best (vice versa) in your opinion, but obviously starting with the classical and main lines. thanks great work
During the many visits and content I've enjoyed I decided today to follow You on Twitter as well. I put forth a direct simple question important to me on that Platform for you, Sincere and Great Thanks for your response there when able. Blessings, .. Mike.
Skroz sam nov u sahu, a zbog Jakovica sam saznao za Benonia, i isao ja traziti na netu, i ti, iako si nas, najjaci si. Gledam te svaki dan ovo, noob sam, igram sah tek 2,5 godine, ali ovo je najbolje sto sam pronasao na netu. Bio mi je cudan tvoj naglsak, bacao si mi da si nas. Lijepi pozdrav i hvala ti. E, primas li ucenike, platiti cu ti da to odradimo zajdno...skajp nesto.
Came here because I’ve been arriving at this exact structure from the KID. Since white’s Bg5 is trendy now and it seems black’s c5 break is a common alternative to Qe8, h6, Nh7, and f5 break (as in the KID Petrosian variation) which is more complicated. After black’s c5 the KID seems to almost always transpose to the modern Benoni structure.
At 26:34 on move f4 challenging the knight , Nc4 is possible because NxC4 looses the rook ok A1 by Qxa1 and I think the queen can escape without being trapped
Actually after Qxa1 white can play Knight back to a3 (Na3) and the Queen is trapped on a1, then after 2-3 moves the Queen will have to be given up for the other rook eventually
Great video. btw, you didn't explain why the pawn comes to b6, this is because white wants to advance the pawn to a4-a5 and have a knight output on b6.
11:25 What do you recommend for black to play? Re8 or Ne8? Ne8 is better according to the engine and leaves the Queen more versatile, but the thing I really like about Re8 is that you are then able to save your Benoni Bishop with Bh8 because the rook isn't anymore on f8.
Fabulous set of videos! Question, you state that you like the early ...Bg4 to trade the bishop for white’s useful knight, but why can’t white just retreat it to d2 anyway, thus setting up a bishop trade and still letting him jump to c4? Also, when you continue to discuss that line, what good response does black have if white lines up the queen and bishop to force a trade of black’s “killer” bishop? With that gone, doesn’t that significantly undermine blacks chances on the queen side? Thanks!
Something is strange is 12.33 - Knight can't take the pawn because BxNg4 for free, and also the position before Nxe4 shows 2.1 for White. So I am not sure if black is on the right track here.
And if you do not like the f4 lines, you can adopt the Nimzo-indian move order 1 d4 Nf6 2c4 e6 3 Nf3 c5 if you are comfortable with playin the nimzo indian
27:04 Why can’t Black play Nc4? You said you’re going to lose it, but white can’t take it with the a3 knight since the a1 rook is hanging, so black can take the rook and win an exchange if white plays Nxc4
Success! Closing in on 2000 with the Benoni. 18-mover. Will watch your Benko video before trying to break 2000. If I can make the Benko put me over ...
26:27 Why can't black play Nc4? if Nxc4 then Qxa1 then maybe Nxd6 and black is up in the exchange. Maybe the d6 pawn falling compromises the position too much, idk.
Nah. I just want the benoni series to have scary thumbnails because the name of the opening is son of sorrow. And it's scary:D the mask is for the modern. I thought it was scary in a modern way.
What was his recommendation against the 4-pawns? He said you MIGHT be in an uncomfortable position quickly if you're not aware, but it looks like the line he followed led directly to that position.....
In the knaak variation after knight e2 couldn’t you just force a modern system on them with b5 because the attack is slower, and you can get the initiative without having to enter the knaak variation which looks kind of scary for black?
Hi, I would like to thank you for this amazing video. After d4 nf6, c4 c5, d5 e6, nc3 cxd5, nxd5!? nxd5, qxd5 what would be your reputation against this.
As black here I would be very comfortable, white has brought the queen out too early and you can play some moves such as: ...Nc6, e4 d6, Nf3 Be6 and then the queen gets pushed around and it's very easy to play as black.
@@BharatMataKiJaiii not necessarily, some codes are defined generally like A60 which is just the Modern Benoni (1. d4 nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6) and then they get more specific, for example A79 is the main line up to 11 moves (continuing 4. Nc3 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. e4 g6 7. Nf3 Bg7 8. Be2 O-O 9. O-O Re8 10. Nd2 Na6 11. f3 Nc7) Edit: also those are 20 codes, not 19
hey man appreciate your videos! i have a question though. When i run the variation through stockfish it shows white is winning +1 nearly all the time. Does this imply that the benoni defense is inferior to other defenses?
If your opponent plays like an engine it’s inferior but it offers practical chances for humans even at the top levels. If Fischer and Tal were beating top tier grandmasters in classical games with it it can’t be that bad.
You forgot at least 1 important line that I know is recommended by ginger GM in Killer d4! It goes like this 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 c5 4. d5 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nc3 g6 7. Bf4 and now 7...Bg7 !?! could be met by the akward Qa4!? or normal e4 or you can play 7...a6 8.a4 in that line white often chose the option of going e3 instead of e4
I'm trying to use the Benoni as my main weapon against 1.d4, thanks in large part to your series on the opening. If the knight gets taken while on a6 before it can reroute to c7, how do you punish that (or was Na6 premature/inaccurate if it can be taken)?
Instead of racing to stop the knight with the pawn, why not pin it to the queen with the light square bishop and then take? That knight seems more important to white than the bishop is to black.
Thumbs down! Only shows advanced variation. And not the two that users do most. The vast majority of the time, they don't eat or advance. Second is they will eat. Yet this only shows if they advance. Which most users already know how to respond to.
![DESTROY 1.d4 With This Aggressive Opening [London System Players Hate It]](/img/n.gif)
Classical variation 8:27
Modern variation 15:50
Fianchetto variation 23:30
Mikenas attack 30:28
Taimanov variation 37:22
Four pawns attack 41:21
Knaak variation 44:08
Kapengut variation 48:27
Uhlmann variation 49:40
Thanks for your awesome contribution to the chess community! Great video as always!
Thanks for your awesome contribution to the comment section!,
@@KneemThanks for your awesome contribution to the Reply Section!
Hanging Pawns is the most detailed, informative and organized chess video here in youtube. I haven’t found any as impressive as this channel. Thanks.
As this Video comes to close I must Comment one more time. It's simply an exhaustive piece of work completely addressing all contingencies to insure an effective Defense. Such a Great work ethic is invaluable to the committed student! This Video offering is admired & Greatly Appreciated! Thank You, .. Mike.
Dear ChessMaster I don't know your name, my Name is Ricardo,
but I want to thank you because I have studied the Benoni video series,
I did not have the knowledge to play it ..
Thank you for your work! he has no waste and his knowledge is invaluable!
a cordial greeting from Argentina
His name is Stephan
What an unbelievably great video! Thanks so much
Great video as always although i would suggest that when going over a variation it would be great to suggest an instructions game(s) in that variation thanks!
I will in the future. Thanks for the suggestion!
@@HangingPawns I know im asking a question about a video from 2 years ago, but what should i do when someone plays some strange moves and not follow theory?
@@vladimirlenin693 You should follow through with an engine, looking to see how it punishes the move. Do try to understand the moves it makes, but it should be fine if you don’t completely understand something like a quiet queen or knight move. Eventually you will be able to incorporate the moves it gives you into your own games. The Benoni has very similar ideas so you shouldn’t need to struggle much.
@@bishop6308 thx
@@vladimirlenin693 np
Great to be back benefiting once again. This time it was Kasparov that first grabbed my attention for the Beoni as I continue looking for repertoire "All" Against the London. So grateful for your methods of instruction here as they are both clear and strong in that the foundations layered lead to outcome proving most solidly helpful for those of us trying to learn new openings from scratch. Your Ch. is favored for these & other reasons to also include a pleasant Host Demeanor that again, is another very helpul factor for the student. A Huge Thumbs up for you as usual with Much Thanks!! It's a real pleasure to share out to others such an excellent, effective and pleasant source. As Always, Blessings Your Way from Oregon! ... Mike.
Really appreciate all the work you put into these videos, love from the UK
thanks for the entire playlist,
i cannot describe how much i appreciate such a detailed explanation for an opening like this helping save a lot more time with staring at engine lines and trying to understand them
i will use the benoni as one of my main weapons against d4 for the rest of my time playing chess
I really don't know why I don't go to your channel more often. So good, so interesting.
Vsa čast!
thank you a lot for this video, i like the way you explain- very fast and accurate! greetings from Chile, and keep doing it better!
That s great you do all the move at each variations from the begining
This video, as well as many others of yours, is so interesting and insightful. I appreciate your contribution to the game :)
Adding this to my black repertoire to answer D4 along with the Scandinavian. Excited.
One suggestion would be to add timestamps for each of the main variations, also perhaps to organize them from worst to best (vice versa) in your opinion, but obviously starting with the classical and main lines. thanks great work
I found my new favourite response to QG opening by white :-). Thx as always hpy! You the best
During the many visits and content I've enjoyed I decided today to follow You on Twitter as well. I put forth a direct simple question important to me on that Platform for you, Sincere and Great Thanks for your response there when able. Blessings, .. Mike.
Skroz sam nov u sahu, a zbog Jakovica sam saznao za Benonia, i isao ja traziti na netu, i ti, iako si nas, najjaci si. Gledam te svaki dan ovo, noob sam, igram sah tek 2,5 godine, ali ovo je najbolje sto sam pronasao na netu. Bio mi je cudan tvoj naglsak, bacao si mi da si nas. Lijepi pozdrav i hvala ti. E, primas li ucenike, platiti cu ti da to odradimo zajdno...skajp nesto.
Nice and excellent video. Thank you Master! Greetings from Peru!
Dear Stjepan congratulations for your work and I admire also the best graphics in all chess field.
Came here because I’ve been arriving at this exact structure from the KID. Since white’s Bg5 is trendy now and it seems black’s c5 break is a common alternative to Qe8, h6, Nh7, and f5 break (as in the KID Petrosian variation) which is more complicated. After black’s c5 the KID seems to almost always transpose to the modern Benoni structure.
GM Yasser said in his TH-cam video, and also explained that in the Taimanov variation after Bb5+, a4, the only way to continue is w Qh4+, provoking g3
Great video. Will you cover the benko gambit in the future?
Yup. In three days
@@HangingPawns Oh, you did overcome your own expectations, quick boiii
Very nice explanation!! Thank you very much!
At 26:34 on move f4 challenging the knight , Nc4 is possible because NxC4 looses the rook ok A1 by Qxa1 and I think the queen can escape without being trapped
Point is that if you dont sac your position is significantly worse
Actually after Qxa1 white can play Knight back to a3 (Na3) and the Queen is trapped on a1, then after 2-3 moves the Queen will have to be given up for the other rook eventually
Great stuff man! Greetings from Israel (BTW, Ben Oni - בן עוני, literally means son of poverty, at least in modern Hebrew)
Great video. btw, you didn't explain why the pawn comes to b6, this is because white wants to advance the pawn to a4-a5 and have a knight output on b6.
I know this is a year old, but- he does talk about this at 11:36.
very informative, thanks
I think you forgot to go over The Na6-c6 plan in the classical variation
11:25 What do you recommend for black to play? Re8 or Ne8? Ne8 is better according to the engine and leaves the Queen more versatile, but the thing I really like about Re8 is that you are then able to save your Benoni Bishop with Bh8 because the rook isn't anymore on f8.
Excellent thank you!
Thank you sir this is very helpful
Very nice/good /useful stuff! Thanks, cheers.
thank you for detail
Thank you
Great video! Very informative!
hello, is it possible to play ...Bd4+ instead of ...h5 at the 27:25 mark in this video?
Fabulous set of videos! Question, you state that you like the early ...Bg4 to trade the bishop for white’s useful knight, but why can’t white just retreat it to d2 anyway, thus setting up a bishop trade and still letting him jump to c4? Also, when you continue to discuss that line, what good response does black have if white lines up the queen and bishop to force a trade of black’s “killer” bishop? With that gone, doesn’t that significantly undermine blacks chances on the queen side? Thanks!
Something is strange is 12.33 - Knight can't take the pawn because BxNg4 for free, and also the position before Nxe4 shows 2.1 for White. So I am not sure if black is on the right track here.
And if you do not like the f4 lines, you can adopt the Nimzo-indian move order 1 d4 Nf6 2c4 e6 3 Nf3 c5 if you are comfortable with playin the nimzo indian
27:04 Why can’t Black play Nc4? You said you’re going to lose it, but white can’t take it with the a3 knight since the a1 rook is hanging, so black can take the rook and win an exchange if white plays Nxc4
Yay! More benoni vids please!
Success! Closing in on 2000 with the Benoni. 18-mover. Will watch your Benko video before trying to break 2000. If I can make the Benko put me over ...
Are you talking about lichess ratings?
@@Chess-Gyaan Yes.
FINALLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Unit Broken exactly :D
Great job
Can you do a video on the Blumenfeld? NNs "prefer" that opening more than average.
At 27:17 why is c4 bad, because the knight is pinned to the rook by the queen
"Benoni bishop is one of the best pieces on the board" all the reason
its a god on the board
26:27 Why can't black play Nc4? if Nxc4 then Qxa1 then maybe Nxd6 and black is up in the exchange. Maybe the d6 pawn falling compromises the position too much, idk.
Hi one question that is probaply stupid. 27:00 why not knight to e4? The enemies knight is pinned because of blacks Queen.
Whats about the gasmask? Is it about that there are so many variations that we can get suffocated with the list :)?
Nah. I just want the benoni series to have scary thumbnails because the name of the opening is son of sorrow. And it's scary:D the mask is for the modern. I thought it was scary in a modern way.
What was his recommendation against the 4-pawns? He said you MIGHT be in an uncomfortable position quickly if you're not aware, but it looks like the line he followed led directly to that position.....
Will you cover the blumenfeld countergambit?
34:20 why doesnt kd1 work for white to save the rook?
What if white plays Nc4 36:28 ?
Do I understand correctly, that by playing first Bishop g4 instead of rook e8 against the classical, we prevent the four pawns attack?
Why is a4 necessary at 39:00?
Does anyone know a good book on modern benoni? I've played it so far, but in standard chess I still don't know enough theory to play it
How does black win a pawn at 12:36 when his knight on g4 is twice attacked?
Hey! After Rxe5 (at 47:34) why can't white play Bf4 instead of Bd4? Pin the rook?
In the knaak variation after knight e2 couldn’t you just force a modern system on them with b5 because the attack is slower, and you can get the initiative without having to enter the knaak variation which looks kind of scary for black?
Nice presentation, appreciate it. May I ask which books you've read to learn about the Benoni systems?
amazing
Any books u recommend for the modern benoni?
Great video... except that it made me think that I SHOULDN'T play the Benoni unless it is a favourable transposition from KID.
Hi, I would like to thank you for this amazing video.
After d4 nf6, c4 c5, d5 e6, nc3 cxd5, nxd5!? nxd5, qxd5 what would be your reputation against this.
You can't refute that but it's not ambitious for white. The queen is simply misplaced and you are wasting a tempo.
As black here I would be very comfortable, white has brought the queen out too early and you can play some moves such as: ...Nc6, e4 d6, Nf3 Be6 and then the queen gets pushed around and it's very easy to play as black.
Great video as usual. I am a beginner so sorry if my question sounds stupid, but what does A60-79 mean in the name of the opening?
Those are ECO (Encyclopedia of Chess Openings) codes, which classifies openings with alphanumeric codes
Gave Feria Hi, Thanks for the clarification. So does that mean there are 19 variations of the Benoni from A60-79?
@@BharatMataKiJaiii not necessarily, some codes are defined generally like A60 which is just the Modern Benoni (1. d4 nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6) and then they get more specific, for example A79 is the main line up to 11 moves (continuing 4. Nc3 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. e4 g6 7. Nf3 Bg7 8. Be2 O-O 9. O-O Re8 10. Nd2 Na6 11. f3 Nc7)
Edit: also those are 20 codes, not 19
Gave Feria Got it. Thnx a lot
You didn't consider in the classical variation, after Bg4 white can go Nd2 and continue his plans and just get rid of his bad bishop, can't he?
hey man appreciate your videos! i have a question though. When i run the variation through stockfish it shows white is winning +1 nearly all the time. Does this imply that the benoni defense is inferior to other defenses?
He said something about how white should always be better through an engine but when playing as a human it’s not that simple normally
The engines love space, so it is no doubt that it likes white in the Benoni
If your opponent plays like an engine it’s inferior but it offers practical chances for humans even at the top levels. If Fischer and Tal were beating top tier grandmasters in classical games with it it can’t be that bad.
You forgot at least 1 important line that I know is recommended by ginger GM in Killer d4! It goes like this 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 c5 4. d5 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nc3 g6 7. Bf4 and now 7...Bg7 !?! could be met by the akward Qa4!? or normal e4 or you can play 7...a6 8.a4 in that line white often chose the option of going e3 instead of e4
18:27 white is slightly slightly better :)
in fact he is completely winning.
I'm trying to use the Benoni as my main weapon against 1.d4, thanks in large part to your series on the opening. If the knight gets taken while on a6 before it can reroute to c7, how do you punish that (or was Na6 premature/inaccurate if it can be taken)?
Taking on a6 means that ideas like f5 become a lot stronger and ideas like Bxc3, so its never advised to take it with white for this reason
@@siraf1234 thanks!
Instead of racing to stop the knight with the pawn, why not pin it to the queen with the light square bishop and then take? That knight seems more important to white than the bishop is to black.
which software u use? for analysis of
Lichess
i tried the benoni and a queen attack about ten times and won only two games i don't like it much😣
Dude, what is with the art for this one? It's freaking me out a bit. Is that supposed to be a black pawn?
16:00
you cant play e5 bacause you dont have the e4 pawn - hanging pawns
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yey
Ого, можно учить английский с пользой!
Wooww too many varitions
Thumbs down! Only shows advanced variation. And not the two that users do most. The vast majority of the time, they don't eat or advance. Second is they will eat. Yet this only shows if they advance. Which most users already know how to respond to.
May I ask what is your elo? It appears your level is not particularly high as at the higher ratings that is all that will be seen.
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