Winning Chess Tactics - Benoni Defense

The Benoni defense is a modern opening against white queen pawn openings and is known for it's aggressive, tactical and almost reckless nature. Black obtains active pieces and a queen-side pawn majority at the cost of allowing white to expand.

The Dutch Defense - Stonewall Variation

One of the better fighting defenses that black has at its disposal against 1. d4 is the Dutch Defense.
When white starts the game by playing d4, it is many times signaling that it is looking to play a more positional game than if it began with a move like e4.

Black has an opening like the Sicilian Defense (a variation of it will be discussed in the post below) to try to play a more tactical game against a player beginning the game with e4. And it has a opening like the Dutch Defense to try to play a more tactical game against a player beginning the game with d4.



Here is a video that shows the Stonewall variation of the Dutch Defense.