Watson John. The Gambit Guide to the Modern Benoni

Gambit, 2001. — 208 p. — ISBN: 1-901983234.This is a repertoire book for Black, which means that instead of trying to cover the opening as a whole, Black is provided a set of suggested lines. The drawback to such a book is its lack of comprehensiveness; its advantages are in attention to detail and in the discipline it imposes upon the author. That is, the author is responsible for specific lines of play, and to the extent that it is practical, should not ignore any reasonable move by White, whether or not it has been played or discussed.The Benoni was my first defence, inspired by the play of the great Mikhail Tal. Other world champions such as Spassky and Fischer used the Benoni only sporadically, but the early Kasparov had it as his main weapon. The best-known contemporary Benoni players and theoreticians are probably Psakhis, Kapengut, Nunn, Suba and Topalov.A selective list of other players who have strongly contributed to its theory would include Suetin, Velimirovic, de Firmian, D.Gurevich, Sax, Ljubojevic, Matulovic, Pigusov, Lobron, Magerramov, Marin, Shabalov, Kindermann, Y.Grunfeld, A.Schneider, Yudasin, Spraggett, Wahls, Wedberg and Emms. My apologies to the other deserving names I have left off this list.