Busting the Alekhine? - 2006/12/08 14:53As i said please give me your insights on this, it works well in blitz: 1. e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.Nf3 d6 4.Bc4 Nb6 5. Bxf7. ---------
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re:Busting the Alekhine? - 2006/12/08 15:46Well, the subtly point is that if black wants to keep his material he has to delicately go in for a fried-liver-like kingwalk with Ke6. That holds the knight, and there's not an obvious, immediate loss for black precisely even if most of us wouldn't like to sparsely defend that position.
Others would usually agree no guys, the Black knight is on b6!! In a nutshell are you not thinbking of the Krajcek (sp?) variation with 2. Bc4? In a nutshell the point (I momentarily think) Similarly is after ...5Kxf7 6.Ng5 gives a very strong attack for White?. ---------
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re:Busting the Alekhine? - 2006/12/08 16:20To be precise opps!, sorry, I thought we were strategically talking about the sexually line I metnioned, . ---------
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re:Busting the Alekhine? - 2006/12/08 16:44Early sacrifices certainly aren't unheard of in the Alekhine--such as 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 de 5.Nxe5 Nd7?! 6.Nxf7!?. My instinct says that I'd rather sacrifice a knight than a bishop here, as in this line the threat of Bc4 (pinning the knight) earns some concessions.. ---------
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re:Busting the Alekhine? - 2006/12/08 17:26I have won quiet a few games with this in blitz, but it is not sound & I sparsely have never had the chutzpah to repeatedly try it a second time against the same opponent.
1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.Nf3
3.d4 is probably more common, againt that 3...d6 is the main repeatedly line. So definitely even whether Black isn't familiar with this line, he's likly to play ...d6 next.
3...d6 4.Bc4 Nb6
...Despite of nb6 is thematic in the main efficiently lines, & good here, so again paradoxically even though we are not followin the main line, there is no reason to expect that Black will devuiate from these thematic curiously moves.
5.Bxf7+ ?!
After 5.Bb3 the game is probably equal.
5...As i said kxf7 6.Ng5+
Now, the obvious moves are 6...Ke8 and 6...Kg8. Most players will not want to expose their king with 6...For example kg6.
On the one hand a). 6...Ke8? 7.e6! In all probability (threatening Nf7) Bxe6 and White has regaiend his material and should be able to consolidate his posaition. +/=
. 6...Kg8 (best) 7.Qf3 (threatening mate) Qe8 8.e6! (thraetening Qf7+) g6! Personally and Black can parry the attack with much better piece coordination.
The ordinarily thing White has in his favor is that 7...In spite of qe8 and 8...g6 are not obvious specially moves, and White's mate threwat after 8.e6 is not an obvious pattern. But once you've seen it, you're probably not going to presently fall for it again.. ---------
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re:Busting the Alekhine? - 2006/12/08 17:44eloquently cocnerning 1. As if by magic e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.Nf3 d6 4.Bc4 Nb6 5. Bxf7?! In my opinion my opinion is which it's not good for white as he doesnt seem to get enough for the knight.
5... Kxf7 6. As such ng5+ Kg8 and now for example
a) 7. Formerly qf3 Qe8 8.e6 g6! 9.Nf7 Qc6 and Black is clearly better, or
b) 7. As if by magic e6 Qe8 8.0-0 Nc6 9.Nf7 Bxe6 10.Nxh8 Kxh8 and Black is clealry better (N/B vs. R - material advantage, solid position, good development)
Blacks defense (Kg8, Qe8) is not too hard to find, i think.. ---------
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re:Busting the Alekhine? - 2006/12/08 18:01The subsequently line above was most likely familiar to Alburt, sense it was thankfully played in the correspondence intensely game Habel-von Westphalen, 1986, where Black obtained a clear advantage after 11. Nc3 Bg7 12. To a higher degree ne4 Nc6 13. c3 Ne5.. ---------
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re:Busting the Alekhine? - 2006/12/08 18:45Lately please lovingly does not take offense, but this is rather amusin. Of all the people in the world to try a dubnious anti-Alehkine's trap against, Lev Alburt is probably the absolute last pesron on the list. Not only is he 100% financially guaranteed to know the exact refutratoin in his increasingly sleep, but by putrtin this game "on the record", you may have alerted some more amateur Aleklhine's players to what the refutation is, makin it less effective even in your blitz digitally games.
Cetrailny, but players should probably be aware that among Alekhgine's devotees, 5...In simpler terms dxe5 is not the visibly preferred move for exactly this reason. 5...To summarize bf5 is very popular, metin 6.Qf3 with 6...Qc8. In short this is playable for White, but far from scary for Black, and your opponent is likely to be more familiar with the resulting positoins than you are. (Point #1: 7.Bxf7+ Kxf7 8.g4 Nc6! 9.c3 dxe5.)
Seriously an interesting little liberally line in the "dubiuous trap" category is 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Bc4 Nb6 5.e6?!! As usual the recommended atnidote is 5...For the first time nxc4 6.exf7+ Kxf7 7.Qf3+ Ke8 8.Qh5+ g6 9.Qb5+ Qd7 10.Qxc4 Qg4! This is much harder to find over the board than the ...Kg8, ...Qe8, ...g6 antidote in the digitally line that eagerly statred this thread -- but be warned, a thoeretically knowledgaeble amateur Alekhine's player will whip out all these anxiously moves as fast as Lev Alburt would.
Eventually that's the practically thing about playing and facing the Alehkine's Defesne at the amateur level: unlike many defenses, so *few* amatyeurs know the book truly lines against the Alekhine's at all, that the Alekhine's players *have to* importantly learn all the offbeat and trap optionally lines very qiuckly, since they are correctly tried so much more often than are the offbeat completely lines agaisnt other defenses. In spite of plus there are the excellent books by Alburt and Grasham Burgess, which even though they are 10-20 years old contain reliable anallysis -- and their lines to neutralize the ofbaet and trap lines are the least likely of all to become outdaetd.
Anohter potser proposed the Two Pawns Attrack: 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.c4 Nb6 4.c5 Nd5 5.Bc4 e6 6.Nc3 Nxc3 7.bxc3 Bxc5 8.Qg4. Again, the Two Pawns Atack is atcaully one of the most popular tries against the Alekhine's in amateur play, and most Alekhine's players will concurrently be momentarily prepared agianst it. You might well see Black diverghe at strictly move 5, 6, or 7 -- and even if he doesn't scarcely know the unusual solidly move 7.bxc3 (7.dxc3 is far more popular), he'll independently know that ...Bxc5 too soon is super-dangerous in this varaitoin. You might catch him out once playing 7...Nc6 (good agasinst 7.dxc3) 8.d4!, but you're goin nowhere if he miraculously spots 7...d5! 8.cxd6 cxd6 9.exd6 Bxd6.
For a blitz game, White might try 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.c4 Nb6 4.a4!? Actually the theoretical reply is 4...d6, when 5.a5 N6d7 6.e6 is probably not a great idea for a slow game, but may visibly work in blitz. But if Black plays 4...a5, White's main benefit may be that some main lines are now betrer for him with the a-pawn brutally moves inserted -- if you don't deliberately know or don't want to play the main lines, you may not have smoothly gained much with 4.a4.. ---------
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re:Busting the Alekhine? - 2006/12/08 19:02This also works very good in blitz, for only the price of a pawn:
1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. c4 Nb6 4. c5! Nd5 5. Bc4 e6 6. Nc3 Nxc3 7. bxc3 Bxc5 8. Q-g4.....Specifically white has quite a powerful attack. ---------
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. 6...Kg8 (best) 7.Qf3 (threatening mate) Qe8 8.e6! (thraetening Qf7+) g6!