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
Not that i will ever probably play this is as black but could we have a C3 Sicilian opening explained.
At my club, my main opponent is a 2000 rated teen who is completely dominant in hedgehog scheveningens when he plays them as black and he plays them ALL THE TIME! I can't play d4 because he confuses me with a weird, messed up line of the king's indian and i can't play nf3 because that is the move he knows how to wreck the most. I need c3 sicilian because it will completely confuse him. Thanks!
instructive thanks
Why can't you just play bishop D2 instead of knight D2, forcing the bishop to either trade or retreat?
Everyone should check out the Noteboom Variation of the Slav it has led to many enjoyable games for me and really gives players practice with connected passed pawns.
Wow thought Jonathan was at least IM or above. Just shows how much one can be wrong about people and their appearance. He seems very professional…
Great lecture as always! Any chance of doing a defence against the English?
Why (at 10:08 minuts in the video) can't white simply take on e5 with his bishop?
What if they don't accept? Or push?
too complicated
if anyone is interested in some aggressive and relatively strange, unplayed sidelines to learn as white against the Modern Benoni, I have a video on my channel going in depth in some of the lines.
10:40 you mean Bd4+! not (Qd4+)!
What happens if 3… e6 then 4. d6 trying to cramp black's position?
When this man analyses openings I put faith in it.
I would like to know what's the difference between 1. d4 c5 and 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5. Won't the same lines be reached after 1. d4 c5 2. d5 e6 3.c4 Nf6 ?
"Tickling my d pawn" is my new favorite euphemism.
At 48.44 “Don’t play Kg1 because I take on g5 with check"…? Meaning Rxg5 I assume. Then Bxg5 and what white plays? I don’t see it.
Wow! This is crazy! Now you know why it's called the Benoni, meaning "son of sorrow" in Hebrew. This is the defense famously played by Fischer on his Game 3 against Spassky, the first one won by Bobby (after one loss, one no-show and too many on-the-edge commings and goings) in the so-called Match of the Century.
What should black replie after 5. Bg5?
Please make a vedio on french defence
Classical variation
Tarrach varition
Exchange variation
Advance varition
Please make a vedio on french defence
Classical variation
Tarrach varition
Exchange variation
Advance varition
0:54 Nc4??? c4 you mean.
I Always thought Jonathan was quit high rated but I actually realize although his opening knowledge seems to be way ahead of mine that i am higher rated than him
Hello jonathan , can do the catalan opening please ?
good job!
Good lecture
10:40 its bishop to d4 not queen 🙂 also at 36:57 its h3 instead of h6 🙂
40:32 its not a pawn for a rook..its a knight and pawn for rook 🙂
please colle zikerate
Schrantz dealing with a tough audience with the a5 move ahhaha, well done…"we move on"
Why doesn’t white play d6 on move 4?
I don´t get the opening. No idea how to play this mysterious game of Benoni.
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?
Gud 1
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 ….
is it 2 much to ask to pronounce Fianchetto correctly?
No one can afford to loose their Mother 👸🏽
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
Hey that's Jonathan Schrantz!
What about the variation where exd6
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
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
32:02 Prophetic, man. This was 4 years ago. Look at what Schrantz is doing now
2:24 "Pawn skeleton" sounds so depressing for some reason :p
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?
May I know what happens if the rook is taken at 10:10
Thanks a lot for the instructive video great effort and precise explanation
23:28 HAHAHAHAHA
9/6/22
JOHNY SCHRANZ I LOVE UR VIDSSS
This guy resembles Daniel Shiffman from The Coding Train!