page 1 of 72; games 1-25 of 1,781  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. V I Lenin vs M Gorky 0-1 26 1908 Capri, Italy B03 Alekhine's Defense 2. E Steiner vs Alekhine 0-1 62 1921 Budapest B03 Alekhine's Defense 3. Euwe vs B Kostic   ½-½ 49 1921 The Hague B03 Alekhine's Defense 4. G Marco vs B Kostic   ½-½ 35 1921 The Hague B03 Alekhine's Defense 5. Rubinstein vs A Selezniev   1-0 44 1921 4-Player Round Robin B03 Alekhine's Defense 6. Hromadka vs Gruenfeld   ½-½ 70 1922 Bad Pistyan B03 Alekhine's Defense 7. H Wolf vs Gruenfeld 0-1 50 1922 Bad Pistyan B03 Alekhine's Defense 8. H Wolf vs Bogoljubov   1-0 42 1922 Vienna B03 Alekhine's Defense 9. Tarrasch vs V Vukovic 0-1 40 1922 Vienna B03 Alekhine's Defense 10. Opocensky vs Gruenfeld   ½-½ 51 1923 Vienna B03 Alekhine's Defense 11. Spielmann vs S Takacs   1-0 49 1923 Vienna B03 Alekhine's Defense 12. Znosko-Borovsky vs G Oskam   1-0 22 1923 Scheveningen it B03 Alekhine's Defense 13. Lasker vs Tarrasch 1-0 47 1923 Maehrisch-Ostrau B03 Alekhine's Defense 14. H N Hansen vs G Oskam   ½-½ 39 1923 Scheveningen NED B03 Alekhine's Defense 15. K Emmrich vs A Becker   0-1 34 1923 23. DSB Kongress B03 Alekhine's Defense 16. N Grigoriev vs Y Vilner   1-0 38 1923 USSR Championship B03 Alekhine's Defense 17. Maroczy vs Tartakower   ½-½ 29 1924 New York B03 Alekhine's Defense 18. J Kleczynski Jr vs Duchamp 0-1 39 1924 Paris B03 Alekhine's Defense 19. F Bohatirchuk vs I Rabinovich   1-0 35 1924 USSR Championship B03 Alekhine's Defense 20. M Romi vs Duchamp   1-0 29 1924 Paris, finale B03 Alekhine's Defense 21. S Rozental vs P Romanovsky   0-1 44 1924 USSR Championship B03 Alekhine's Defense 22. I Rabinovich vs Levenfish   1-0 49 1924 USSR Championship B03 Alekhine's Defense 23. S F Smith vs Duchamp   0-1 85 1924 Paris f-B B03 Alekhine's Defense 24. S Mlotkowski vs H H Hahlbohm   ½-½ 23 1924 Western Championsip B03 Alekhine's Defense 25. Spielmann vs A Haida   1-0 52 1925 Marienbad B03 Alekhine's Defense  page 1 of 72; games 1-25 of 1,781    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 9 OF 11 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-15-06    Bobak Zahmat: <AgentRgent><18.c5+ may be good too: in my analysis file I have this line: 18...Kxc5 19.Qb1 Kd6 20.Ne2 - and now too White will win the Knight back- ie ...Qe4 21.Qb6+ Kd7 22.Qe6+ Kd8 23.Qxe5 Qxe5 24.Bxe5 and even with queens off White is better> Why should Black should exchange his Queen. Ofchourse, after Queen exchange Whiteīs position is clearly better. But instead of playing 23. ... Qxe5, Black has to play the normal Qb4+, the continuation will be 24.Qc3 Nxd5 and Blackīs game is okay. He has even a pawn up! Feb-15-06    Bobak Zahmat: <diction><AgentRgent> Guys, it looks to me, the winning variation has been found after the sacrifce of the Knight? Donīt you agree? Feb-15-06    AgentRgent: <Bobak Zahmat: <diction><AgentRgent> Guys, it looks to me, the winning variation has been found after the sacrifce of the Knight? Donīt you agree?> I'm not completely convinced as there are possible deviations earlier. However, I'd have very little worry about playing it OTB as white's path is a fine line indeed and any mistep allows black to consolidate and win. Feb-15-06    Bobak Zahmat: <AgentRgent> Ofcourse you're right. But which particulary move should Black play differently according to you? Feb-15-06    diction: <But instead of playing 23. ... Qxe5, Black has to play the normal Qb4+, the continuation will be 24.Qc3 Nxd5 and Blackīs game is okay. He has even a pawn up!> Iīd rather play 24.Nc3 and White looks about winning Feb-15-06    Bobak Zahmat: <diction><Iīd rather play 24.Nc3 and White looks about winning> I missed that :) Feb-19-06    Bobak Zahmat: I'm glad we started this kind of discussions, during this week we could probably bring an another variation on the table. Mar-13-06    Sourav: Is black in a losing position if he plays 4...Nb4 after 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 Nc6 4.c4? Mar-31-06    Bobak Zahmat: Your line isnīt really giving Black any space. The move d6 is nessessary to develope. Mar-31-06    AgentRgent: <Sourav: Is black in a losing position if he plays 4...Nb4 after 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 Nc6 4.c4?> In a word... yes. 4...Nb4 5. a3 Na6 6. b4! Mar-31-06    Bobak Zahmat: Hi <AgentRgent>, how have you been? Wanna discuss some lines of Alekhine Defense? Mar-31-06    suenteus po 147: <Sourav> While I didn't face the exact line <AgentRgent> posted I can tell you from days experimenting with Alekhine's Defense that 4...Nb4 loses in MANY ways. Mar-31-06    AgentRgent: <Sourav> Also, for what it's worth, I don't recommend 3...Nc6, 3...d6 is superior IMHO. Mar-31-06    jackpawn: It's surprising the black winning percentage for this in the database. Better than a number of more popular openings. Personally I never liked playing it as black because I hated facing the exchange varation. Almost no counterplay (sigh) . . . Mar-31-06    keypusher: <Sourav> Here's a good illustration why 3...Nc6 isn't a good idea: H Borochow vs Fine, 1932 Mar-31-06    AgentRgent: <jackpawn: I hated facing the exchange varation. Almost no counterplay (sigh) . . .> Did you respond exd6 or cxd6? I find cxd6 gives me counterplay based on the central majority, long dark bishop, and half open c-file. Mar-31-06    unsound: Even if you play exd6 (in the exchange variation) you can get counterplay by playing the bishop on to the long diagonal the hard way (Be7-f6) and putting pressure on d4, no? I play exd6 because I've had, erm, issues with cxd6 not being so solid (playing that variation I ended up with one of my games being the L.A. Times chess problem, with me on the losing end of the combination--my greatest chessic claim to fame so far, sadly). Mar-31-06    who: <jackpawn> the winning percentage based on Opening Explorer is white wins 40% draws 33.3% and black wins 26.7%. That's not all that great for black. Using the statistics at the top of the page will only give you 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 which doesn't enter any other opening line (B04, B05, D47) with its own Eco code. Mar-31-06    Poisonpawns: The two best lines for black in alekhine are : Kengis line :1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 dxe5 5.Nxe5 g6 and against exchange variation simply play cxd6 as Fischer did. Other lines such as chase variation and four pawns attack are nothing to fear.Look up the stats in these lines and you will see black does a bit better. May-28-06    refutor: what do you guys recommend against 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.c4 Nb6 5.f4 dxe5 6.fxe5 c5 7.d5 g6 8.Bf4 i've played it on the black side a couple of times and got terrible positions May-29-06    Poisonpawns: <refutor> Dont play 6..c5!? as black it is weaker than the normal 6..Nc6 which renders the four pawn attack harmless.just kidding but black achieves equality easier Jun-02-06    ksadler: <refutor> The idea is for Black to be patient and develop his pieces. If White doesn't allow the development of the queen bishop to f5 or g4, Black has to play .. e6 in order to gain some space. Although White's reply of d6 looks bad, it really frees up Black's development. An example of this is Movsesian vs Z Varga, 2005 although it seems to be that Varga releases the tension too early with the exchange on his 11th move. Jun-02-06    jackpawn: <AgentRgent> Sorry to take so long to respond. In my previous life I played both exd6 and cxd6. Although cxd6 is more dynamic, I was slightly more comfortable in the exd6 line. I never played the Alekhine much anyway. Eventually the French became my main defense. Another opening you either love or hate! . . . Jun-26-06    Poisonpawns: Alekhine fans we have a new masterpiece for the collection: A Volokitin vs Ivanchuk, 2006 Jul-15-06    LPeristy: I'm thinking of choosing Alekhine's Defense as my black 1.e4 opening. Can anyone reccommend a good book that discusses this opening in detail? Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 11) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 9 OF 11 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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