10 named lines in this family, ECO
A57-A59. Every one of them opens
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5, so the notes on those moves are written once, just below, instead of once per line.
Under each line you get its moves and the sentences it adds that
this page has not already printed. A line's own page carries up to its
first 4 per-move notes in full.
The moves every line here
plays
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5
1. d4Stakes a claim in the centre, controlling e5, and frees the bishop and queen.
1... Nf6Develops the knight to f6, eyeing d5 and e4.
2. c4Fights for d5 from the flank - contesting the centre without committing a centre pawn.
2... c5Challenges the pawn on d4 - the central tension has to resolve. Theory calls this the Benoni Defense.
An early pawn trade leaves the b-file as Black's avenue and the c-file as White's - both sides get real winning chances down their own file. White is up material out of the opening - Black is banking on activity to show for it.