About this opening
Benko Gambit Accepted: Yugoslav is an opening in the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings,
classified under code A59. ECO group A (A00–A99)
covers flank and irregular openings, including the English, Bird, Réti and Dutch defences. This particular variation is reached
after 13 half-moves from the
starting position, with the move sequence 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. bxa6 Bxa6 6. Nc3 d6 7. e4.
It belongs to the Benko Gambit Accepted family. Within that family this is a sub-variation (the Yugoslav line).
The opening sequence in prose form: 1.d4 Nf6, 2.c4 c5, 3.d5 b5, 4.cxb5 a6, 5.bxa6 Bxa6, 6.Nc3 d6. From this position the encyclopaedia records no further canonical continuations — practical play branches into unnamed transpositions or returns to the parent line for alternative ideas.
Use the interactive board above to walk through the moves position-by-position. Click any move in the navigation to step backwards, or use the keyboard arrow keys. For statistical data — how often master-level players have reached this position, White's win-rate, draw frequency, Black's score — see the panel in the right column.
Caissly's coverage of A59 extends through every named sub-variation in this line and across all four locales (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian). Where editorial commentary exists for a specific variation it appears as the page body; otherwise the page presents the structural data, board, and statistics as shown here.