Up until move 9, Black continues to play with mediocrity, but White begins to gain a small initiative on the open f file.

By move 14, the Bishop pair is White's main advantage, though 14. Qf3 is compelling.

15...Nxe5 is the key mistake which the intermediate player may learn greatly from; Black makes the classic error of favoring sharp tactics over solid strategy: a mistake all Master's know better than. Allowing White a total initiative is easy for the greatest prodigy of the time to exploit wholesale.

<On September 13, 1916, at the opening of the chess season in Moscow, Alekhine gives a session on 37 (!) Boards in the new premises of the Moscow Chess Club, which moved to the building of the Strakhov Men's Gymnasium (Sadovo-Spasskaya, 6): +28-3=6. Then he again goes to Odessa. Here, on October 4, in the hall of the City Duma, Alekhine held a blind séance, the entire collection from which went to the Odessa-Serbia aid fund. "This time the maestro played not 8, but 9 games, and he played them extremely quickly: the game was over in 3 hours and 50 minutes. There were more than 300 moves in all the games, that is, A. A. Alekhine made 80 moves per hour, while playing without looking at the board, he won 8 games, while his ninth opponent, Mr. Liszt, who also played without a board, abandoned the game on the 17th move, having a worse position.>