Viktor Brolin vs NN (2011)

Viktor Brolin vs NN
Stockholm 2011 · Alekhine Defense: Modern. Larsen-Haakert Variation (B04) · 1-0

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May-18-12		Melonhead: Can someone please analyse this game for me? It would be nice to know if the sacrifice is sound. Is there any escape for the black king after 7. ... Kg8. What happens if the king moves the other way? And after 7. ... Ke8 8. e6, does the sacrifice from move 6 have to be repaid by 8. ... Bxe6? My chess mind and computer skills are insufficient.

May-18-12		LoveThatJoker: <Melonhead> As an Alekhine's Defense player, I can tell you that I've had this position many times. Black blundered by playing 9...Nxd4?? allowing White to mate him easily. The correct move in this position is 9...g6. It makes for a tough game, but I have won games defending this. As for the sacrfice being sound, although speculative it is on the sounder side of speculative: As after 9...g6, if White is desperate to recover nominal material parity he can go for 10. Nf7. The thing is that then the e6 pawn is very weak and Black can capture it. LTJ

May-18-12		Melonhead: Exactly what I wanted to know LTJ. Thanks. Interesting this is the only occurrence of 6. Bxf7+ in the database as far as I can see :)

May-18-12		LoveThatJoker: <Melonhead> As an addendum, I asked Stockfish for its opinion on your question. Here is what it gave: <9...g6> (9... Nd8 10. O-O h6 11. Ne4 Nxe6 12. Qd1 d5 13. Ng3 Bd7 14. Nc3 g6 15. Be3 Bg7 16. Qd3 Kh7 17. Nh5 Qf7 18. Nxg7 Kxg7 -3.79 at a depth of 23) <10. Qe4 d5 11. Qd3 Bg7 12. c3 Nd8 13. O-O h6 14. Nf3 Kh7 15. Re1 Bxe6 16. Qe2 Bf5 17. Nh4 Bd7 18. Nd2 Rf8 19. Ndf3 Nc6 20. Qc2 Bg4 21. h3> -3.75 at a depth of 23 I hope this helps! LTJ

Jun-24-12		Melonhead: It seems escape is possible :) Thanks.

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