Benko/Volga Gambit

[kingliveson]

Interesting game from world strongest chess engines. "Many of the world's strongest players have used it at one time or another, including former world champions Garry Kasparov, Veselin Topalov and Mikhail Tal, and Grandmasters Vassily Ivanchuk, Michael Adams, Alexei Shirov, Boris Gelfand, and Evgeny Bareev."
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[Event "Grand Prince vs Aquatic Vertebrate 240+0"]
[Site "W0111-D0001"]
[Date "2010.02.13"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Grand Prince"]
[Black "Aquatic Vertebrate"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A57"]
[Annotator "0.13;0.16"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[TimeControl "14400"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. d5 b5 4. c4 Bb7 5. e3 a6 6. Nbd2 g6 7. e4 Bg7 8. a4 bxc4
9. Bxc4 O-O 10. O-O e6 11. Qb3 Qc7 12. Re1 exd5 13. exd5 d6 14. Ne4 Nxe4 15.
Rxe4 Nd7 16. a5 Nf6 17. Re1 Rfb8 18. Qd1 Re8 19. Rxe8+ Rxe8 20. Qd3 h6 21. Bd2
Qb8 22. Ra3 Qa8 23. Rb3 Bxd5 24. Rb6 Bxc4 25. Qxc4 Ne4 26. Rxa6 {Draw accepted}
1/2-1/2

Time Control: 4 Hours
CPU: AMD Phenom II 940 @ 3.6 GHz
Hash: 2048 MB

[kingliveson]

The evals:

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1. d4 {0.13/25 498 Both last book move} Nf6 {0.16/20 408
} 2. Nf3 {0.17/25 322} c5 {0.11/20 710 (e6)} 3. d5 {0.13/25 867} b5 {0.11/19
152} 4. c4 {0.12/24 884} Bb7 {0.08/19 336} 5. e3 {0.09/24 1220 (a3)} a6 {0.03/
19 268} 6. Nbd2 {0.10/25 344 (a3)} g6 {0.04/19 424 (e6)} 7. e4 {0.17/23 232}
Bg7 {0.04/20 241} 8. a4 {0.13/24 364} bxc4 {0.10/20 396} 9. Bxc4 {-0.04/26 1006
} O-O {-0.10/20 351} 10. O-O {-0.04/25 220} e6 {-0.09/21 233} 11. Qb3 {-0.08/
25 303} Qc7 {-0.07/21 142} 12. Re1 {-0.13/24 368 (d6)} exd5 {-0.01/21 279} 13.
exd5 {-0.14/25 110} d6 {-0.03/22 852} 14. Ne4 {-0.14/25 86} Nxe4 {-0.03/23 221}
15. Rxe4 {-0.07/25 166} Nd7 {-0.03/22 1408} 16. a5 {-0.03/25 534 (Bf4)} Nf6 {
-0.24/20 131 (Rab8)} 17. Re1 {-0.04/24 151} Rfb8 {-0.18/19 149 (Bc8)} 18. Qd1 {
-0.08/25 125 (Qd3)} Re8 {-0.12/19 145} 19. Rxe8+ {-0.05/24 65} Rxe8 {-0.12/20
161} 20. Qd3 {-0.01/24 96} h6 {-0.11/19 245 (Qb8)} 21. Bd2 {0.05/25 301} Qb8 {
0.00/19 184 (Qc8)} 22. Ra3 {0.00/25 174} Qa8 {0.00/19 117} 23. Rb3 {0.00/25 53}
Bxd5 {0.00/20 212} 24. Rb6 {0.00/26 74} Bxc4 {0.00/20 110} 25. Qxc4 {0.00/26
117} Ne4 {0.00/20 175 (Qe4)} 26. Rxa6 {0.00/25 107 Draw accepted} 1/2-1/2

[govert]

"Many of the world's strongest players have used it at one time or another, including former world champions Garry Kasparov, Veselin Topalov and Mikhail Tal, and Grandmasters Vassily Ivanchuk, Michael Adams, Alexei Shirov, Boris Gelfand, and Evgeny Bareev."

And this quote is from where?
You talking about the engine or about the gambit?

[kingliveson]

"Many of the world's strongest players have used it at one time or another, including former world champions Garry Kasparov, Veselin Topalov and Mikhail Tal, and Grandmasters Vassily Ivanchuk, Michael Adams, Alexei Shirov, Boris Gelfand, and Evgeny Bareev."

And this quote is from where?
You talking about the engine or about the gambit?

The quote comes from here. And a few nice games:

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[Event "XXIX Vicente Bonil Albox"]
[Site "Albox ESP"]
[Date "2005.06.04"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Sergio Sanchez Lopez"]
[Black "Veselin Topalov"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A57"]
[BlackElo "2778"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[EventDate "2005.06.04"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. b3 e6 5. dxe6 fxe6 6. Nf3 d5 7. e3 bxc4 8. bxc4
Bd6 9. Nc3 Bc7 10. Be2 O-O 11. O-O Nc6 12. Ba3 Nb4 13. Nb5 Ba5 14. Ne5 a6 15.
Nc3 Qd6 16. f4 Bb7 17. Qa4 Bb6 18. Rad1 Qe7 19. Bf3 Rad8 20. Rf2 a5 21. Rfd2 d4
22. exd4 cxd4 23. Nb5 Bxf3 24. Nxf3 d3+ 25. Kf1 Ng4 26. Re1 Rxf4 27. c5 Qxc5
0-1

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[Event "Internet blitz 5'"]
[Site "Internet ICC"]
[Date "1998.05.24"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Garry Kasparov"]
[Black "Ariela"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A57"]
[PlyCount "41"]
[EventDate "1998.??.??"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. Nf3 g6 5. cxb5 a6 6. Qc2 Nxd5 7. e4 Nf6 8. e5
Nd5 9. Bc4 Bb7 10. Nc3 Nxc3 11. Qxc3 Bg7 12. bxa6 Bxa6 13. O-O O-O 14. Rd1 d6
15. Bg5 Nc6 16. Bxa6 Rxa6 17. Qc4 Qa8 18. exd6 exd6 19. Rxd6 Bxb2 20. Rad1 Rxa2
21. Rxc6 1-0

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[Event "Havana ol final  Rd: 7"]
[Site "Havana ol final  Rd: 7"]
[Date "1966.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Svein Johannessen"]
[Black "Robert James Fischer"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A57"]
[PlyCount "52"]
[EventDate "1966.??.??"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. d5 b5 4. c4 Bb7 5. g3 g6 6. Bg2 bxc4 7. Nc3 Bg7 8. O-O
O-O 9. Ne5 d6 10. Nxc4 Nbd7 11. Re1 Ba6 12. Qa4 Qc8 13. Na5 Nb6 14. Qh4 Re8 15.
Bg5 Qc7 16. Nc6 Bb7 17. e4 Nbd7 18. f4 Kh8 19. e5 dxe5 20. fxe5 Nxd5 21. Nxd5
Qxc6 22. e6 Ne5 23. Rxe5 Bxe5 24. exf7 Rf8 25. h3 Rxf7 26. Nf4 Rxf4 0-1