 The Dutch, an aggressive defense adopted for a time by World Champions Alekhine and Botvinnik, and played by both Botvinnik and challenger David Bronstein in their 1951 world championship match, is still played occasionally at the top level by Short and others.The Benoni Defense is also fairly common, and may become very wild if it develops into the Modern Benoni, though other variations are more solid.1...d6 is reasonable, and may transpose to the King's Indian Defense (e.g.