At some point in my life I will probably play every mainline chess opening, either by design or accident (e.g. I once played a French Defence as black through a move order trick). The Benoni Defence looks to be the next cab of the rank, and I have been looking at a number of top level games. It is less popular at the top level these days, but serves as a succesful weapon at the lower levels. This may be due to the fact that Black requires tactical resources to overcome the openings positional defects, or as John Nunn says , the Benoni is "one big swindle"
Spassky,Boris Vasilievich - Fischer,Robert James (2785) [A77]
World-ch27 Fischer-Spassky +7-3=11 Reykjavik (3), 16.07.1972
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