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Siegbert Tarrasch vs Semyon Alapin
Training Match (1903), Marseilles Chess Club, France
Queen's Gambit Declined: Charousek (Petrosian) Variation (D31)  ·  0-1

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ANALYSIS [x]
Annotations by Semion AlapinAccording to Alapin’s annotations, this novelty avoids the move order of 3...Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3, and leads the game into unfamiliar territory.10...Qc7 is probably better 20.Kf2 is equal To counter the threat 32.c5 with ...Rd7.If 33.Kxe5 f3! or 37.Kf3 e4+!. A master move! If 45.Kb6, Black wins easily, going with the king to e2 47...Ke2? 48.Rxf2+!.55.Rg7? Kxh4! or 55.Kc6 Rf2 56.Kb6 Rf6+ 57.Ka5 Rf5+ 58.Kxa6 Rh5 and Black wins0-1

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Oct-04-08  Karpova: Nikolay Minev on 3...Be7: <"Batsford Chess Openings" names this the Alatortsev variation. Here is a game played and annotated by Alapin, when Alatortsev was just one years old. Furthermore, Alatortsev played only a few games with "...Be7", much fewer, for example, than Petrosian, and did not make any interesting contributions to the theory of the variation. But to be fair to Alatortsev, he never claimed to be the author of this idea.>

Nikolay Minev on 4.e4: <Today's preferred continuations are 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bf4 or 4.Nf3.>

Nikolay Minev on 6.Ng3: <A novelty as far as recent theory goes. "ECO" shows only 6.Nxf6+?! and 6.Nc3=.>

Minev, Nikolay: "Historical Perspectives on Chess: Simon Alapin", http://www.chesscafe.com/text/skitt...

Dec-02-11  zydeco: Interesting game! 6.Ng3 seems like it's trying for too much of a good thing and Alapin is immediately better. I'm very surprised that Alapin trades queens on move 11, which lets white off the hook for his bad king position.

These games were supposed to be secret and, apparently, Tarrasch was furious that they were published. The over-bold 6.Ng3 and the blunder 20.f4 may help explain why he was so upset.

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