Yuffa - Aronian | Checz Benoni as blitz reportaire opening

Levon plays relatively unpopular opening line with pawns on c5 and e5. Normal Benoni wouldn't have an e5 pawn. This is considered somewhat dubious line as Black's pieces are kind of trapped behind it pawns, especially bishop on g7. This Line gave Levon an important victory in World Cup 2017 against Matlakov, also in Blitz game. Yuffa continued with e4 when position opened up and Black had more counterplay.


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Blitz chess (also known as speed or fast chess) is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than normal tournament time controls allow. Openings, tactics and strategy are same.

The so-called Czech Benoni Defense is one of the weapons black can use to fight 1.d4. This defense is suitable for those looking to get their opponents into a closed, strategical position with chances for all three results. In this Czech Benoni the second player is not looking for a “sound position” close to equality, but aiming to fight for the initiative and avoid the well-known paths of modern theory in all other defenses.



Many strong players have taken up the challenge of fighting d4 with the Czech Benoni. Among the most famous names are Levon Aronian, Ivan Sokolov, Ni Hua, but surely the latest reference on this opening has to be Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. The Romanian Grandmaster has shown the dynamic potential of this defense and his games are worth studying in order to understand the philosophy behind black’s play. Of course we should mention here many classical Grandmasters such as Victor Ciocaltea and Spyridon Skembris who employed it in several occasions.

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