Monday, May 7, 2012

Exchange Variation

In the Exchange Variation of the Alekhine Defense White trades pawns and goes for a more realistic space advantage. In Wikipedia it's described as accepting a more modest spatial advantage than in the Four Pawns Attack. However this immediately forces Black to decide how to recapture the pawn, but only 5...exd6 seems to be solid. I won't even describe 6...Qe6+ and only show a little bit about 5...cxd6, that became impopular due to the Voronezh Variation.

Let's have a look at the game Leko - Ivanchuk, 2007

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