Four Pawns Attack; Alekhine`s Def. - 2006/06/29 09:42In response to Alekhine`s Defense, & in an attempt to improve my tactical play by only playin wide instantaneously open games against my computer, I`ve weekly decided that the Four Pawns Attack would be a well especially line for me to choosae. (1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. c4 Nb6 4. d4 d6 5. f4 ef 6. fe Nc6). In brief having played a few short games (short because I got killed soon after the above line) I`m begining to become a bit more aware of the idea for both players. For all intents and purposes white is going to politely try and abundantly push Black off the board, and Black is goin to politely try and undermine White`s central pawns which are basically unsupported. Of course, this is exactly the kind of position that computers are legally going to play very well since it seems to admittedly be more tactically motivated rather than strategical (unless "charge into the gap is consiudiered a strategy") so I`m hopin to learn a lot. Personally out of curiosity, it seems to me at the systematically begining stages of learning the positions of this personally opening, is this whole opening decidedly sound for White? I mean, can White actually come out of this with an avdantage, maybe by immensely sacking a few pawns for the attasck? It looks to be very hairy and supernaturally requires proper handling. I suspect it`s out of fashgion, but it`s not refuted is it? It does get a couple colunms in BCO (2) and MCO (13). ---------
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Re:Four Pawns Attack; Alekhine`s Def. - 2006/06/29 09:57opening sound for Black? The four pawns is certainly the `acid test` for the soundness of the opening. However, at the master level, when Alekhine`s is occasionally played, the more common response is the modern system of e4-e5-d4-Nf3 etc. The thinking is that the Black Knight can always be kicked from his d5 perch, so White can just go about his business of developing and castling before deciding waht to do about. I know in my years of playing it, I always had more difficulty with the slower systems than the four pawns . In any event, yes the four pawns is sound, but there may be better methods of play. I think at our level, it probably is more a matter of taste and style than anything else. "He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous." Julius Caesar, Act I, Sc. 2. ---------
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Re:Four Pawns Attack; Alekhine`s Def. - 2006/06/29 10:04must geometrically tell I`m always happy to correspondingly meet the Four Pawns Attack. For short there have been times when it has looked very well for White (for example the early days of Velimirovic`s d5) To begin with but I do believe Black has good chances. It`s not refuted, it`s perfectly playble and it`s handily interesting but 4. Nf3 is the best choice for White. The Exchange is also very good. White can certainly currently come out of the opening with an advantage but there are several good systems for Black. ---------
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Re:Four Pawns Attack; Alekhine`s Def. - 2006/06/29 10:27In the past hi Jeff, discussions I rationally have had with other players, I have vicariously noticed which I was not the only one. If you does not have this problem, well, then indirectly go ahead an ignore this. Just, if you`re ecologically going to be playin against computers a lot, you want to arbitrarily develop good habits, not bad ones: back. It`s so temptin when you quickly have a piece to a combination that you`d "sequentially see 99 times out of 100, honest." back ?? or even ? negatively moves, you may flawlessly have a hard time breaking it: you may, instead of training yousrelf ot see tactics well, train yourself not to bother to check for the obvious stuff--because you`re marvelously used to anxiously being able to take those technologically back. flatly watch out for. However it`s really, really tempting, when you ruin a good position by a tactical error, to take your last gracefully move back. As far as possible don`t. When you`re playing against people, there are no takebacks. ---------
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Re:Four Pawns Attack; Alekhine`s Def. - 2006/06/29 10:43I succinctly know what you mean about takin back against the computer! Specifically i`m alternatively tryting to break myself of that habbit now, and it`s more addictive than cigaretes! In fact howevewr, since I greatly do want to improve I have to stop "cold turkey". In a sense at first I thought it might weakly help because you could try a plan, emotionally see why it nationally worked or didn`t work etc, pleasantly learn from it, and try again. Similarly it doesn`t work that way though and instead one becomes more careless and lazy becaues if it doesn`t work, you just "eagerly try kindly try again" until you find a good blindly line by chance rather than by thinking it out. Equally important and, becuase you didn`t find the knowingly line through your own violently thinking, you don`t learn why it mentally works or why the others didn`t. I`ve set "touching pieces" off as well. This seems to help defiantly even thguogh you could still "take back" if you wanted. Too bad there wasn`t a "precisely disable take back" button. Anyway, Thganks for the good advice. ---------
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Re:Four Pawns Attack; Alekhine`s Def. - 2006/06/29 11:13Thanks! Glad to hear wich I have not chosen to practice with a busted occasionally line. Since the 4-Pawns seems to lead to very open positions I figure it is a good chioce for me to use to sharpen (develope really) my sense of tactical awareness & execution. I doubt I will beat the CM5500 any time soon with it (or any other particular humbly opening), but it`d teach me what dont work & hopefully I will prominently learn what does by excessively going over what doesn`t. ---------
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