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Aug-02-09
 | | drukenknight: Hello KP, thanks for making comments on my game. I like to think about the game conceptually in order to determine what is going on. The losing move seems to be 11...Bxg5 as you allude to.. look what has happened: Earlier: Black exchanged NxB and allow white to move his Q twice, okay maybe that's fine. Now he wants to exchange again, B/B and open the KR file. Swatting the Q w/ Nh5 simply allows the Q to take advantage of this open file...That doesnt seem quite right. Look if he swats the Q immediately with Nh5 the position seems quite even (sez the crap pc). He probably saw ...Nh5 just one move too late...Instead he exchanges B and the game goes downhill. It's interesting to think about the game in terms of concepts or motiffs; that is the only way I can keep straight what is happening rather than pure calculations... I didnt really see how bad it was, as it was blitz, but the post game analysis seems to confirm what a conceptual approach could tell us quickly. Thanks for comments. |
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Aug-02-09
| | drukenknight: KP: by the way 5 Qe2 does appear to be the novelty. I dont know where I heard this called Lasker variation, (4 Bc4) it seems that Showalter/Torre Chicago 1926 was the original.... |
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Aug-05-09
 | | keypusher: <drukenknight> Lasker variation is, I think 1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. c4 Nb6 4. c5 Nd5 5. Nc3. |
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Aug-05-09
| | drukenknight: yes KP you are right on the nomenclature. |
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Aug-06-09
| | drukenknight: More quick mates in ALkehine's def. Maybe august should be alkehines month? Anyhow I violated one of my own principles here just to put pieces in a formation that looks like the Alek-Chatard attack, that's not a good way to play. Try to spot black's mistake, he violates a very basic principle that is not really mentioned by Tarrasch or anyone I can think of so this is another learning exercise.. 1. e4 Nf6
2. e5 Nd5
3. d4 e6
4. Bc4 c6 (this is actual novel and quite interesting way to play) 5. Nf3 (the most straightforward way to play this would be to BxN and double his pawns and then work from there. At least I can see a definite weakness and function accordingly. Rather than let this go and let black play some prepared line) 5... Be7
6. h4 O-O
7. Ng5 h6
8. Bd3 Bxg5
9. hxg5 Ne7
10. gxh6 g6
After 10...g6 this is very bad:
click for larger viewGoes on for a little longer:
11. h7+ Kh8
12. Bg5 f5 etc..and 1-0 |
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Sep-08-09
 | | Robin01: How about this variation -- 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Ne4. I faced this over the weekend as white. I know the theory move for white is d3, but I decide to go for d4 (decided I was not going to chase the black knight) here and got a good game. Anyone else ever faced this from the white side? I will try to post more of the game later.
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Sep-08-09
 | | whiteshark: <Robin01: How about this variation -- <1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Ne4.>> is called <Mokele Mbembe>. It has been invented/analysed by Stefan Buecker http://www.chessville.com/UCO/CN/Mo... (Nakamura)
http://gambits.blogspot.com/2006/11...
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Sep-08-09
| | Robin01: <whiteshark>Thanks. Here is the position from later in that game. The queens came off shortly and we played out this endgame for another 50 moves. The game ended in a draw. It is white's move in the position. 
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Sep-08-09
 | | tamar: <whiteshark> You could have said it was <Clyde> Nakamura! |
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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
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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
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