Alekhine

Nc3 White's move order was adopted by the world champions Alexander Alekhine, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik and many others who tried to make life of the Grunfeld defense players more difficult.

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Qa4+ was played by Alekhine against Rellstab in Kemeri already in 1937.

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Interestingly, neither Taylor nor Valentin Bogdanov in Play the Alekhine, published last year by Gambit Publications, mentioned this move.

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For almost four decades, the Serbian grandmaster countered the Alekhine defense by charging his pawns forward as far and as quickly as they could go.

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Tim Taylor's Alekhine alert offers a complete repertoire against 1.e4.

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In Play the Alekhine, Valentin Bogdanov uses his experience spanning more than three decades and concentrates on the main lines.

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In an age when the gentleman chess player was still common and chess as a profession was considered questionable, Alekhine made chess his life as no one had before him.

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Alekhine had never beaten Capablanca going into their 1927 World Championship match in Buenos Aires.

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He won one other game, but could not hold Alekhine.

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Alekhine had studied all of his opponent's games and came to the conclusion the Cuban was not invincible.

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