The ABC of the Modern Benoni - Martin "Movies & Dvds" - John Elburg

- John Elburg

The major benefit to any Sniper practitioner is that they build up a familiarity with the pawn structure in the resulting middle games which helps to prevent errors and saves time in practical play

The Sicilian family is big but the Sicilian that puts most pressure on White's center is the Classical Variation - Black quickly develops both knights to their most active squares

d5 systems can be highly tactical

From the perspective of a top player he explains why certain openings are played while others more or less vanished from tournament practice

The ABC of the Modern Benoni - Martin "Movies & Dvds" - John ElburgThe Modern Benoni is one of the sharpest and most controversial replies to 1 d4. Black voluntarily heads for an unbalanced pawn structure in which he has a the serious defect of a weak, backward pawn on d6 and hands White a central pawn majority. In return Black gets active pieces and a potentially mobile queenside pawn majority. This trade off invariably leads to razor sharp play. On this Chessbase DVD, International Master Andrew Martin will teach