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d5 is a very good Benoni for white (if there is such thing as a not-very-good Benoni for white) exactly as Arne mentioned, because white can maneuver his knight to c4. Usually arises from a different move order though, 1. d4 c5 2. d5 e6 3. e4, and this is the reason why 1. ... c5 is not great against 1. d4. You'd want to wait for that pawn to arrive on c4.
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It is certainly playable. The main drawback is that you give White the choice between two very different mainline openings:
3.Nf3 transposes to a Sicilian, where Black is already committed to e6 (Kan, Taimanov or Scheveningen, but no Najdorf, Sveshnikov, etc.).
3.d5 reaches a Benoni structure and may transpose to a mainline Benoni if White later plays c4. ...
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Check out this website for more information:
https://thechessworld.com/articles/openings/the-keres-variation-against-the-sicilian-defense/
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Disclaimer: there might be other ideas too.
I used to play this some time ago against sicilian. My idea was that I liked closed sicilian positions (2. Nc3) if black did not play the "main" setup against it (that is, 2. ... Nc6, 3. ... g6 etc). So with Ne2, I still could play the closed variation against, for example, 2. ... e6 and 3... d5, and ...
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