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| Sep-09-09 | | whiteshark: Tkanks for pointing out, <tamar>. I didn't know that there are more Nakamuras
(4: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...) It's one of those split-second non-awarenesses that make you look like a patzer. Like todays puzzle. :D |
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| May-09-10 | | refutor: does anyone have tim taylor's new book "Alekhine Alert"? http://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Prod... what are the lines he recommends v. Nf3? is it a decent book? |
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| May-25-10 | | midknightblue: I just ordered it. I understand that he recommends exd6 in the exchange variation, and that he feels white's strongest variation is the modern variation, where he recommends 4 Nf3 dxe5 5.Nxe5 and either 5...c6 or g6, noting that in some cases the lines can transpose. You can download a pdf of the table of contents and of the beginning of the chapter on the modern variation on the everyman chess website. |
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| Jun-20-10 | | rapidcitychess: I was considering adding the Alekhine to my very small opening list (Ruy Lopez,Najdorf Sicilian, King's Indian) until I saw the amazing Spielmann gambit.As most of you know it goes <1.e4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3. e5 Nfd7 4.e6!?> Before I adress the gambit itself AgentRGent 3...Ne4 It is a move that seems good but GM Boris Alterman points out that the odd looking 4.Nce2! gives White a advantage. His main line runs 4...Nc5 5.d4 Ne6 6.f4 Now we go to the gambit.
4...fxe6 (forced)5.d4 and the main position is reached.
Now I turn it over to Boris Alterman.
http://www.chessclub.com/chessfm/in...
In case you cannot get that, There are three main lines
5..Nf6
Spielmann vs S Landau, 1933
The others are discussed in the video as I have no games for those.I will try to get those.I need to watch this to get the others. Untill next time... |
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| Aug-05-10 | | TomGinTX: I am reading "Alekhine Alert" nowadays. I like it. Also like Starting Out: Alekhine and Davies' Alekhine's Defence. vs Modern 4 Nf3, he recommends Kengis 5...g6 or 5...c3. vs Exchange 5...exd6
vs 4 Pawns 5...g6
Every chapter has a section of "Lines I don't like". He steers you away from lines where you have to memorize a lot of theory just to keep from getting killed. rapid, you can go ahead with the Alekhine. After 2 Nc3, Taylor recommends 2...e5. Instead of the cool gambit, White has to play a Vienna or Four Knights or somesuch. Maybe he will fall asleep at the board and you will win on time. 8-) You can also play 2...d6 and go to a Pirc, or 2...e6 and go to a French. |
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| Aug-05-10 | | AgentRgent: <rapidcitychess> With all due respect to GM Alterman this line looks rather poor for white in practice... e.g. Opening Explorer Furthermore, Chesslab.com shows Black scoring 36% vs 13% for white after 6...g6 (incidentally the last white win was in 1996 with 3 Black wins [1 this year in Prague] and 6 draws since). I'd be interested to see GM Alterman's analysis on this line. |
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| Aug-22-10 | | rapidcitychess: Hmm, nice. <Agent> It doesn't give a winning advantage. If you can read up on it,that would be nice, that's about all he gives on it, and it's fairly old to so maybe? I don't know much about it, and I have about zero opening books except for an old book by Seirawan that's worth it weight in something. But it's no good for me. :-) <rapid, you can go ahead with the Alekhine. After 2 Nc3, Taylor recommends 2...e5. Instead of the cool gambit, White has to play a Vienna or Four Knights or somesuch. Maybe he will fall asleep at the board and you will win on time. 8-)> I tried it. I got squished like a bug. :-( |
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Apr-10-11
 | | Penguincw: Opening of the Day:
Alekhine's Defense, Krejcik Variation
1.e4 ♘f6 2.♗c4
What a strange opening.I have never even considered gambitting a pawn like that. |
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Apr-10-11
 | | keypusher: <Penguincw: Opening of the Day: Alekhine's Defense, Krejcik Variation
1.e4 Nf6 2.Bc4
What a strange opening.I have never even considered gambitting a pawn like that.> It's not really a gambit. 2....Nxe4 3.Bxf7+ Kxf7 4.Qh5+ g6 (or 4....Kg8) 5.Qd5+ e6 6.Qxe4. But Black should take the pawn anyway, since he winds up with the bishop pair and an extra pawn in the center. Of course 2....d5 is also fine, and 2....e5 is a Bishop's Opening. |
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Dec-12-11
| | Penguincw: Opening of the Day
Alekhine's Defense
1.e4 ♘f6
click for larger view |
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| Nov-04-12 | | AgentRgent: The Krejcik comes round again...
Opening of the Day (Nov 4, 2012)
Alekhine's Defense, Krejcik Variation
1. e4 Nf6 2. Bc4 |
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| Nov-12-12 | | Wyatt Gwyon: Any club players here who venture this opening with any frequency? Thinking about picking it up and am curious which variations are most commonly seen. |
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Nov-12-12
 | | WannaBe: <keypusher> is a practictioner of this opening, pick his brain... |
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| Nov-12-12 | | Wyatt Gwyon: Thanks. I've played the French for probably 15 years. Just getting tired of the exchange variation. |
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| Nov-13-12 | | Shams: <Wyatt Gwyon> As I understand things, the lines after <4.Nf3> are why today's elite players shy away from Alekhine's Defense. For a while the Voronezh Attack was quite dangerous, but Black is surviving that well enough today I think. Whether you can play for a win against it is a question I don't know the answer to. You'll see it a lot, so defending that is a good place to start: http://www.chess.com/forum/view/che... |
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| Dec-29-12 | | Kikoman: <Opening of the Day> Alekhine's Defense (B02)
1. e4 ♘f6
click for larger view |
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| Jul-15-13 | | parisattack: I never tried the Alekhine until recently in a series of email games. I actually sort of like it! Seems to take a few games to get into the swing, however. Many books on the Alekhine, course. Although a little out-of-date the best is the two volume German Die Aljechin Verteidigung by Siebenhaar / Delnef / Ottstadt. (Sounds like a German law firm!) If any interest I can post a list of Alekhine tomes.
GM Baburin plays it quite well, 100+ games in the CG.com database. |
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| Jul-15-13 | | parisattack: Alekhine Defense Books
Bagirov - Alekhine's Defence
Bogdanov - Play the Alekhine
Burgess - New Ideas in the Alekhine Defence
Christiansen - Alekhine's Defense As White: The Four Pawns Attack
Davies - Alekhine's Defence
Dunworth - Developments in the Alekhine 1985-1987
Eales and Williams - Alekhine's Defence
Greet - Beating Unusual Ches Defences
Hort - Alekhine's Defence
Hort and Keene - Alekhine's Defence
Lane - Alekhine Defence
Lonsdale - Alekhine Defence: 3. d4 Against the Brooklyn Variation
Lonsdale - Alekhone Defence: Larsen Variation
Martin - Trends in the Alekhine 2
McDonald - Trends in the Alekhine 1
Sawyer - Alekhine Defence Playbook
Schwarz - Alekhine Verteidigung
Siebenhaar, Et Al - Die Aljechin Verteidigung B1
Siebenhaar, Et Al - Die Alejechin Verteidigung B2
Smith and Hall - Alekhine's Defense
Soltis - Beating the Alekhine Defense with the Exchange Variation
Taylor - Alekhine Alert!
Tucker and Long - Alekhine's Defense: Bronstein-Ljubojevic
Weinstein - The Alekhine 1977
Others? |
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| Jul-15-13 | | TheFocus: Hey <paris> I picked up the DeLucia 2-volume set for $675. A bargain. |
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| Jul-15-13 | | parisattack: That's a bargain, indeed <TheFocus>! Saw <Bogomeister> [KC] listing them on eBay for $1100 recently. |
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| Jul-15-13 | | TheFocus: Brandreth has it for $1020.
My dealer went directly to David.
They are not inscribed though.
Two of my others are signed. (Not the Fischer one!) |
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Sep-13-21
 | | fredthebear: The discussion of this defense has certainly dropped off. Here's some history according to Tartajubow: https://tartajubow.blogspot.com/201... |
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| May-30-22 | | TheaN: It seems like CG regularly features the Krejcik <1. e4 Nf6 2. Bc4?!> as OotD. I'm not a common Alekhine practitioner but this 'gambit' no longer scares me: 2....Nxe4 3.Bxf7+ Kxf7 4.Qh5+ Kg8!? 5.Qd5+ e6 6.Qxe4 d5 ⩱. 4....Kg8 is slightly more solid than 4....g6 but the tucked in rook might not be everyone's taste. Having said that, Black has the center, the bishop pair, and after probably 7.Qe2 Nc6 also the better development. It's still not without sting, but similar as Bxf7+ in the Knight Fork, White gains nothing constructive out of the opening. The solid lines against the Alekhine are much more dangerous. Or if you really want to gambit something, play Spielmann (2.Nc3 d5 3.e5 Nfd7 4.e6=, but very dangerous). |
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| May-05-24 | | Amarande: Spielmann's line is rather dangerous in general, it is super easy to go squish as Black here: - not returning the pawn immediately is bad (Spielmann vs S Landau, 1933) - biting at the e-pawn is bad (4 ... fxe6 5 d4 e5! 6 dxe5 Nxe5? 7 Qh5+ Ng6 8 Bd3, oops) - Qh5 is still a threat even after that (6 ... e6 7 Bd3! Nxe5? 8 Qh5+, or 7 ... Bc5? or 7 ... Bb4? 8 Qh5+ and Black can't answer with g6 on account of the pin, while White rides easy after 8 ... Kf8) - even when the threat of Qh5 is past, early castling is still problematic (6 ... e6 7 Bd3 g6 8 f4 Bg7 9 Nf3 O-O?! 10 h4! with a serious attack that even center counteraction isn't enough against, e.g. 10 ... c5 11 h5 d4 12 hxg6! dxc3 13 gxh7+ and wins, for if 13 ... Kh8 14 Nh4!, while if 13 ... Kf7 14 Ng5+ Ke7 15 Nxe6!) while White already has considerable forces ready to attack soon in the center if castling is delayed. So 2 Nc3 with a view to the e6 sac actually seems more dangerous than the traditional e5, all told. |
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| May-06-24 | | FM David H. Levin: Here are some thoughts on assorted lines mentioned in this thread. On 1.e4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.e5, I play 3...d4. CG has a couple of my games as Black in this line. On 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.c4 Nb6 4.c5 Nd5 5.Bc4 e6 6.Nc3, I would play 6...d6 7.Nxd5 exd5 8.Bxd5 dxe5. Theory says this is bad owing to 9.Qf3, but I found 9...f5 10.Bxb7 e4 11.Qb3 Bxb7 12.Qxb7 Nd7, intending to plant the knight at d3. For example, 13.Qd5 Be7 14.Qxf5 Nxc5, when White has a pawn but suffers from backward development and weaknesses at d3, d2, and f2. On 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.c4 Nb6 5.f4, the book lines didn't satisfy me as Black. So, ~40 years ago, I started looking at 5...g5 and found that Black has a lot of tactical resources that aren't found in opening books. My website davidlevinchess dot com has analysis on this and some other lines. |
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