Alexander Alekhine's Amazing Alekhine's Defense

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🔔 Don’t forget to LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and turn on notifications for more chess content and openings! :) Buy a chess.com membership: https://go.chess.com/SammyChess Follow me… SECOND CHANNEL: https://youtube.com/@SammyChess TWITCH: https://twitch.tv/sammychess X: https://twitter.com/SammyChess1 Alekhine is known for his fierce and imaginative attacking style, combined with great positional and endgame skill. He is highly regarded as a chess writer and theoretician, having produced innovations in a wide range of chess openings and having given his name to Alekhine's Defense and several other opening variations. In the Alekhine's Defense, 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. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:11 Game 1 07:14 Game 2 16:54 Game 3 20:38 Game 4 Game 1: Jacques Mieses vs Alexander Alekhine, Baden-Baden, April 16 1925 1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. e5 Nfd7 4. Nxd5 Nxe5 5. Ne3 Nbc6 6. Nf3 Nxf3+ 7. Qxf3 Qd6 8. Bb5 Bd7 9. O-O e6 10. c3 Qe5 11. a4 Bd6 12. g3 Qf6 13. Qxf6 gxf6 14. d4 Na5 15. Bxd7+ Kxd7 16. b4 Nc6 17. Rd1 a6 18. Rb1 b5 19. a5 Ne7 20. Rb2 Kc6 21. Kf1 Nd5 22. Ke1 h5 23. Ng2 Rae8 24. Be3 f5 25. Kd2 h4 26. Kd3 hxg3 27. hxg3 Rh2 28. Nh4 Bxg3 29. Nf3 Rg2 30. Ne1 Rg1 31. Re2 Bd6 32. Rc1 Rh8 33. Nf3 Rxc1 34. Bxc1 Rh3 0-1 Game 2: George A Thomas vs Alexander Alekhine, Baden-Baden, 1925 1. e4 Nf6 2. d3 c5 3. f4 Nc6 4. Nf3 g6 5. Be2 Bg7 6. Nbd2 d5 7. O-O O-O 8. Kh1 b6 9. exd5 Qxd5 10. Qe1 Bb7 11. Nc4 Nd4 12. Ne3 Qc6 13. Bd1 Nd5 14. Nxd4 cxd4 15. Nxd5 Qxd5 16. Bf3 Qd7 17. Bxb7 Qxb7 18. c4 dxc3 19. bxc3 Rac8 20. Bb2 Rfd8 21. Rf3 Bf6 22. d4 Qd5 23. Qe3 Qb5 24. Qd2 Rd5 25. h3 e6 26. Re1 Qa4 27. Ra1 b5 28. Qd1 Rc4 29. Qb3 Rd6 30. Kh2 Ra6 31. Rff1 Be7 32. Kh1 Rcc6 33. Rfe1 Bh4 34. Rf1 Qc4 35. Qxc4 Rxc4 36. a3 Be7 37. Rfb1 Bd6 38. g3 Kf8 39. Kg2 Ke7 40. Kf2 Kd7 41. Ke2 Kc6 42. Ra2 Rca4 43. Rba1 Kd5 44. Kd3 R6a5 45. Bc1 a6 46. Bb2 h5 47. h4 f6 48. Bc1 e5 49. fxe5 fxe5 50. Bb2 exd4 51. cxd4 b4 52. axb4 Rxa2 53. bxa5 Rxb2 0-1 Game 3: Edward G Sergeant vs Alexander Alekhine, Hastings, December 28 1925 1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. Bc4 Nb6 4. Bb3 c5 5. d3 Nc6 6. Nf3 e6 7. Nc3 d5 8. exd6 Bxd6 9. Ne4 Be7 10. c3 O-O 11. Be3 Nd5 12. Bxc5 Nf4 13. O-O Bxc5 14. Nxc5 b6 15. Ne4 Nxd3 16. Qc2 Nf4 17. Rfd1 Qc7 18. Nd6 Ng6 19. Nxc8 Raxc8 20. Qe4 Na5 21. Ba4 Qb8 22. Bb5 Nb7 23. Rd2 Nd6 24. Qb4 Nxb5 25. Qxb5 e5 26. Rad1 e4 27. Ng5 Rc5 0-1 Game 4: Efim Bogoljubov vs Alexander Alekhine, Carlsbad 1923 1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. e5 Nfd7 4. d4 c5 5. Bb5 Nc6 6. Nf3 a6 7. Bxc6 bxc6 8. e6 fxe6 9. O-O e5 10. dxe5 e6 11. Ng5 Qe7 12. f4 g6 13. Qg4 Nb6 14. b3 c4 15. Be3 c5 16. Bf2 h6 17. Nf3 Qf7 18. Nh4 Rg8 19. a4 cxb3 20. cxb3 Bb7 21. a5 Nd7 22. Bg3 d4 23. Na4 Bd5 24. Rab1 Rb8 25. Qd1 Rb5 26. Be1 Qe7 27. Qd3 g5 28. Ng6 Qf7 29. Nxf8 gxf4 30. Bg3 Qxf8 31. Rxf4 Qg7 32. b4 Qg6 33. Qd1 Rf8 34. Rg4 Qf5 35. Rb2 Rxb4 36. Rxb4 cxb4 37. Nb2 Bb3 38. Qe2 Qb1+ 39. Be1 Rf5 40. Re4 Bd5 41. g4 d3 42. Qd2 Nxe5 43. Rxe5 Rxe5 44. Nxd3 Re4 45. Kf2 Rd4 46. Ke3 Re4+ 47. Kf2 Rd4 48. Ke3 Rxg4 49. Bg3 Qg1+ 50. Qf2 Re4+ 51. Kd2 Qa1 52. Ne5 Rxe5 0-1 #chess