Talk:Benko Gambit

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nice short opening description, well done. Themindset 18:05, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Hypermodern?

Can I classify the Benko Gambit as an hypermodern defense? Is it possible? --Roberto Cruz 20:30, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

• Generally all openings that start with 1.d4 Nf6 (so-called "Indian defenses") and don't transpose to 1.d4 d5 openings (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5, for example, would be a transposition to a classical Queen's Gambit Declined) are considered hypermodern. Since White's pawn, not Black's, is on d5 by move 3, the Benko Gambit can never transpose to a 1.d4 d5 opening, it would be correct to call it "hypermodern." Krakatoa 16:44, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks for your explanation! Could you put this information in the article, please? --Roberto Cruz 19:41, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

• I've translated a part of your explanation and put it in my article about Hypermodern School --Roberto Cruz 20:03, 1 November 2007 (UTC):

• De um modo geral, as defesas que iniciam com 1.d4 Cf6 (as chamadas de Defesas Índias), que não transpõe para defesas do tipo 1.d4 d5, são consideradas como hipermodernas. Por exemplo, os lances 1.d4 Cf6 2.c4 e6 3.Cc3 d5 caracterizam uma transposição da defesa 1.d4 Cf6 para o Gambito da Dama Declinado (ou Recusado), um tipo de abertura de natureza ortodoxa.

Wha wha wha whaaat?

This passage:

The idea of sacrificing a pawn with ...b5 and ...a6 is quite old, however, the phrase became popular far before. In the middle ages, the lords in France would taxidermy their peasant's pets, then bury them near a river. In their common case, this was at the River of Versailles. They would then tell the peasant only after the river had eroded the pet away. The common victim was the dog, Namely the Bernese mountain dog poodle mix. This misconception of the origins of Benkos Gambit has cause this old practice to be lost.

Makes no sense to me at all. Feels like a cut and paste error somehow.

I have no suggestion on how to fix it because I'm not sure what the original intent here was.

MariaMitchell (talk) 21:30, 5 May 2021 (UTC)