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Alexander Alekhine vs Georg Salwe
17th DSB Congress, Hamburg (1910), Hamburg GER, rd 17, Aug-06
Queen's Gambit Declined: Traditional Variation (D30)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Apr-15-05  zb2cr: On Black's 15th, the patzer move of snapping up a Pawn costs Black: 15 ... Bxa2; 16 Ra1, Bb3; 17 Qc3 and the Bishop is trapped.

Otherwise, for Alekhine, this is kind of a quiet game. Maybe because he was only 18, wasn't yet a Grandmaster, and was still feeling his way?

Feb-18-08  Karpova: A new C.N. deals with this game with regards to a seemingly strange gamescore: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... (scroll down to C.N. 5429).

After 18.Rfd1?? the reply 18...Rxc1 19.Rxc1 Rd8 would win a piece

After 19.f3?? (Better 19.Bc2) Black would win with 19...Rxc1 20.Rxc1 Rd8 (or 20...Qd6)

20.Kh1 (Better 20.Bc2) is bad again due to 20...Rxc1 21.Rxc1 Rd8.

With 21.Kg1 instead of 21.Bc2 White allows 21...Rxc1 22.Rxc1 Rd8 again

Edward Winter suggests that Black may have played 17...Nc5 (instead of 17...Ne5) as given in on page 122 of Alexander Alekhine I Games 1902-1922 (Sofia, 2002). But the tournament book with the score like in this db is so far the only source for the game.

Aug-18-09
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  chessgames.com: We have studied this game and chose to adopt the 17...Nc5 version. Our reasoning is: (1) It's extremely unlikely that Alekhine would overlook that, (2) even if he did, it's then equally as baffling that Salwe would overlook it, (3) even if they both overlooked it, it's virtually impossible to imagine them overlooking it for several consecutive moves, (4) as Winter writes <17...Nc5 was, in fact, the move given on page 122 of Alexander Alekhine I Games 1902-1922 (Sofia, 2002)> and finally (5) the letter 'c' looks awful lot like the letter 'e'.

We will continue to archive the dubious 17...Ne5 score as the alternate version.

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