How to Spot the Benonni Opening in a Chess Game

Video Transcript

"The next and final of the queen's pawn response openings that I would like to show you is the modern benonni. The benonni existed long ago and has come back again in the last few years and it is an opening that is used primarily by people who are very aggressive players and it does give black very good counter attacking opportunities. And it basically goes like this. Pawn to queen's four, pawn to queens bishop four. That is the modern benonni. And there are many different theories about to continue at this point. The main line right now appears to be pawn to queen's five. And the response by black at this point, usually is now pawn to king's four. And you will noticed that by playing pawn to king's four, black does set him up for an immediate "en passant" response. If you remember from earlier on, white can take the pawn by "en passant"; however, it seems now a days that most of the variations, white does not actually play that and instead focuses more on bringing out his knights and continuing with his development of bringing out bishops and so on."