Benoni Defense
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5
Black challenges White's center from the side, accepting a structural weakness for active piece play.
As White: 66% score in 428 games (269 wins, 25 draws, 134 losses).
As Black: 57% score in 458 games (239 wins, 46 draws, 173 losses).
Who plays it most
- GM Danielian Elina: 40 games as Black, scores 48%
- GM Weiqi Zhou: 29 games as Black, scores 48%
- GM Aaryan Varshney: 27 games as White, scores 78%
- GM Nikita Meshkovs: 27 games as Black, scores 46%
- GM Davorin Komljenovic: 25 games as White, scores 48%
- GM Miroslav Miljkovic: 24 games as White, scores 58%
- GM Kjetil Lie: 24 games as Black, scores 50%
- GM dobbyelfofthehouse: 21 games as Black, scores 57%
- GM talosevich: 19 games as Black, scores 55%
- GM Gabriel Flom: 17 games as Black, scores 53%
- liindseeyy: 17 games as White, scores 56%
- GM schachschnecke: 16 games as Black, scores 47%
- GM Jonas Lampert: 16 games as White, scores 63%
- GM ilia_jude: 15 games as Black, scores 43%
- GM Thal Abergel: 15 games as Black, scores 100%
From the recent public Chess.com games of 146 players on the top players list, updated about once a week. Score = wins plus half the draws.