24 Dec 06
I`m from Latvia. Chempion of my country in this year are GM Normunds Miezis, which is well known with his original opening play. For example as black sometimes he plays this modern Benoni line
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 Bd6?! with idea Bc7 and sometimes moving it to a5
I think such line very doubious, and I I`ve noticed from his games from chessgames.com, he plays it only againstweaker oponnents (woth elo lower 200-300 points).
Whats your opinion about such line?
24 Dec 06
Originally posted by KorchThe normal development of blacks, black B, in the benoni is to g7 exerting pressure down the a1-h8 diagonal. As control of this diagonal is one of blacks objectives in the Benoni to play the B to d3 seems counter productive and pointless. d3 must be played to get the white B out so the Bd3 will lose a tempo and have to move again to c7. After d3 it is now blocked in and a further tempo lost by moving to a5.
I`m from Latvia. Chempion of my country in this year are GM Normunds Miezis, which is well known with his original opening play. For example as black sometimes he plays this modern Benoni line
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 Bd6?! with idea Bc7 and sometimes moving it to a5
I think such line very doubious, and I I`ve noticed from his games fr ...[text shortened]... againstweaker oponnents (woth elo lower 200-300 points).
Whats your opinion about such line?
By this time white will probably have played either g3, Bg2 and Nf3 or e4, Nf3, B move intending 0-0. Either black exchanges the B for the N or the B is way out of play. Meanwhile white after b3 and Bb2 controls the a1-h8 diagonal.
So in my opinion bad! but I am not a GM and Miezis presumably knows better than me.
