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Re:Alekhine Busted?!?!?! - 2006/06/27 01:10
definitely a provocative move (but then again the Alekhine is meant to be provocative anyway) and the pawn sac on e6 may be dangerous, but there are several lines in the Alekhine where White sacs on e6. Two examples:
1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 Nc6!? 5.c4 Nb6 6.e6 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 Bg4 5.Be2 c6 6.Ng5 Bf5 7.e6
At first glance the sac you mention does not seem any more dangerous than the two I mention above. After 6...fxe6, how does White proceed? White has no pieces developed and the c-pawn and a-pawn will not vanquish Black by themselves. The danger for Black seems to be e6 and f7, but I think if Black plays a quick ...e5 and brings the knight to f6 he avoids the worst, even if it means returning the pawn. The line that would scare me would be 7.d4 e5 8.Bd3. Now an immediate 8...Nf6 looks bad due to 9. dxe5, but maybe Black can return the pawn with 8...e4!? to gain a tempo after 9.Bxe4 Nf6. The only thing I don`t like about this is Black`s backward e-pawn. But death throes? Hardly. In fact, I might even try it sometime.  I hesitate to second-guess a master, though. FYI I am not a master (or even close to one) but I have studied the Alekhine quite a bit.
BTW if Black if afraid of the sac on e6 he can just play 4...a5, which also occurs frequently, especially in the exchange variation.
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