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The Modernized Delayed Benoni Ivan Ivanisevic

The Modernized Delayed Benoni By Ivan Ivanisevic

The Modernized Delayed Benoni by Ivan Ivanisevic


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The Modernized Delayed Benoni by Ivan Ivanisevic

The advantage of our Benoni is based on a waiting approach. Black would like to choose a perfect moment to play e6xd5, waiting for White to adopt some piece setup that turns out to be inconvenient for him after this exchange. At the same time, we would like to avoid some dangerous or deeply explored variations like the Flick-Knife (a.k.a Taimanov) or systems where White can place his bishop on the optimal f4-square. A lot of variations in this book can also be useful for Kings Indian players, as a main or alternative way to play. My own journey in the world of the Delayed Benoni started when I was a Kings Indian kind of guy! As every rose has its thorn, so White can annoy us by answering our e6xd5 not with the routine c4xd5 but rather with e4xd5. This produces a completely different pawn formation, with an open e-file. White enjoys a space advantage but Black has his chances. And just as White can depart from the well-trodden path with e4xd5, so Black can dispense with the almost automatic e6xd5 and instead play e6-e5, producing a sort of Kings Indian formation. In the Main Line, covered in Chapter 4, White has already played h2-h3 and this pawn can become a target when Black gets his kingside attack moving. Our opponent can force us into a Modern Benoni, by playing f3 (Samisch) or f4 (Four Pawns). I think that I have succeeded defending Blacks case, even finding some important nuances improving on the existing theory. From my personal experience, the only way for White to achieve some advantage is the h3 and Bd3 variation with e4xd5, the Main Variation covered in Chapter 4. The problem for White, though, is that Black can answer that line in many different ways. So White must be thoroughly prepared and acquainted with all the nuances of our system. And even then, Whites advantage is just a normal one. I give a different approach to this variation, three (!) different ways for Black to respond. The reader can also, through the game commentaries, see the development of the variation in my practice. In my opinion, the Delayed Benoni is a kind of mystery for White also, since it has not been covered deeply enough in chess publications. So I think that this work could be useful for White players, too.

The Modernized Delayed Benoni Reviews

The Modernized Delayed Benoni is much more than the title makes you think! I like the author's approach very much: it is a mixture of a personal journey and a theoretical manual. The author has been probably the main exponent of this line for the past ten years and he uses many of his games to illustrate the variations he has recommended. Although the book is again extremely detailed, there is careful attention to move orders and enough passages of explanations to make much of it understandable for non-experts. An excellent effort. GM Matthew Sadler, NIC Magazine 2020/4.
The Modernized Delayed Benoni is written by Grandmaster Ivan Ivanisevic, with an important contribution by GM Ivan Sokolov. It is an excellent 240-page book, produced by Thinkers Publishing. There is a lot of detailed analysis here, complimented by plenty of relevant text. The book revives a system in the Benoni which has not been given the respect it deserves over the years. I can strongly recommend the Modernized Delayed Benoni. Players from 1800 upwards will get a lot out of it and master-level players perhaps most of all. The quality of the ideas suggested, and the original thinking make this a 5 STAR book. IM Andrew Martin, British Chess News, July 2020

About Ivan Ivanisevic

Ivan Ivanisevic, born in 1977, started playing chess when he was 5 years old, while watching his grandfather and father play. At the age of 10 he started working with IM Petar Smederevac, the coach of the national team of former Yugoslavia, who is probably the real reason why he started playing professionally. Before he reached the age of 20 years old, he shared 1st place in the Championship of the former Yugoslavia. In 1999 he won the title of Grandmaster. Since 1998 he is a member of the national team, and since 2007 continually playing on the first board. Four times he was the Champion of Serbia. He won many tournaments, from which we remember mostly following: Saint Petersburg 2014, Skopje 2015, sharing 1-5 place in Dubai 2015, Vrsac, the Bora Kostic Memorial, 2006, Nova Gorica 2007, Bergamo 2014, Kavala 2007, Podgorica, 2011 becoming the Balkan champion and Kozloduy, the rapid championship of Danube 2012. He was also participant of the World Cup in 2011. This this second book for Thinkers Published, after he co-authored the most acclaimed 'Taimanov Bible' from 2017.

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The Modernized Delayed Benoni by Ivan Ivanisevic
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Thinkers Publishing
2020-01-30
236
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