Black modern chess openings pdf
Amant derived this somewhat bizarre defence from Benoni. Bennoni gives some examples but it loses time to White, which deprives Black of all the advantages of a good opening." Staunton wrote in The Chess-Player's Companion (1849): "M. Saint Amant wrote in Le Palamède (1843): "This opening is not favorable to Black. In the 1843 Staunton- Saint Amant match, Saint Amant met 1.d4 with 1.c5 in the second and fourth games. Reinganum, who studied chess to alleviate his depression, conceived the name "Ben-Oni" as a nickname for his writings rather than the name of an opening.
In 1825 Aaron Reinganum, a prominent member of Frankfurt's Jewish community, published a book entitled Ben-Oni oder die Vertheidigungen gegen die Gambitzüge im Schache in which he analyzed several defences to the King's Gambit and the Queen's Gambit, as well as the then unknown opening 1.d4 c5.