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Alexander Alekhine vs Gajdukevich
Kislovodsk (1907), Jun-19
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Old Variation (D20)  ·  1-0

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Jul-05-23
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  keypusher: Alekhine missed 6.Qf3, a move that goes back to Greco.
Jul-05-23
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  perfidious: If Black was one of Schiffers' students, he must have sat out this lesson.
Jul-20-23  generror: I can't believe Alekhine didn't see nor know about <6.Qf3>... it's such a well-known opening trap...
Jun-16-24
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  FSR: 6.Qf3 1-0 Greco vs NN, 1620. To my astonishment, there is a game in the current USCF Absolute Correspondence Chess Championship where Black fell into this. Correspondence, where use of databases and engines is allowed, and you get 50 days for each 10 moves. And it's the championship of the damned country, so you'd think one would take the game seriously and try not to fall into 400-year-old traps.
Jun-16-24  FM David H. Levin: <generror: I can't believe Alekhine didn't see nor know about <6.Qf3>... it's such a well-known opening trap...>

Perhaps Alekhine's not having learned of this opening trap is at least partly attributable to his being 14 years old when this game was played.

Jun-16-24
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  FSR: <FM David H. Levin> Fair enough. These days you'd expect Alekhine to be a GM by age 14, but it was different then. I think I learned of this trap when I was around 13 from Chernev's <Winning Chess Traps>.
Jun-16-24
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  louispaulsen88888888: Hey, me, too! Chernev wasn’t very strong but put out some good books.

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