The first game on this blog has to be a game of Alekhine himself. Unfortunately he lost this game, but the opening named after himself went very well.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Alekhine's Defence
From Wikipedia
This blog is dedicated to this interesting chess opening.
We will start in the next posts with an example of each of these main variations.
Alekhine's Defence is a hypermodern chess opening that begins with the moves:
1. e4 Nf6
Black tempts White's pawns forward to form a broad pawn centre, with plans to undermine and attack the White structure later in the spirit of hypermodern defence. White's imposing mass of pawns in the centre often includes pawns on c4, d4, e5, and f4. Grandmaster Nick de Firmian observes of Alekhine's in MCO-15 (2008), "The game immediately loses any sense of symmetry or balance, which makes the opening a good choice for aggressive fighting players."
The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings has four codes for Alekhine's Defence, B02 through B05:
- B02: 1.e4 Nf6
- B03: 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 (including the Exchange Variation and Four Pawns Attack)
- B04: 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 (Modern Variation without 4...Bg4)
- B05: 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 Bg4 (Modern Variation with 4...Bg4)
This blog is dedicated to this interesting chess opening.
We will start in the next posts with an example of each of these main variations.
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