Alekhine Defense. A Complete Guide

Alekhine Defense. A Complete Guide
Author: Николай Калиниченко
Publisher: Litres
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2018-06-27
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 5041200440

Alekhine Defense is a bold choice for Black, challenging the classical chess rules from the very beginning of the game yet proving itself to be a flexible system. Black can choose to head for mind-boggling complications or carefully manoeuvre within the 6th to 8th ranks, waiting for the right time to strike out at the center. Although once a favorite of Bobby Fischer and occasionally played by Magnus Carlsen, the lack of Alekhine Defense games at the level of elite Grandmasters today means that many lines and ideas remain untested in practice. As a result, this opening leads to lively, often open positions with chances for both sides. With l...Nf6 Black signals that he is playing to win.This book, consisting of 16 parts and 87 chapters, not only covers the traditional Alekhine lines but also takes a comprehensive look at variations rooted firmly in the 21st century. Moreover, thanks to the use of modern technology and the authors' deep analysis the evaluations of many well-known lines have been revised. The authors have strived to write a lively work which is useful for both players with high ELO ratings and club players.

Alekhine Defense

Alekhine Defense
Author: Maxim Chetverik
Publisher:
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2018
Genre: Chess
ISBN: 9785946936897

Starting Out

Starting Out
Author: John Cox
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Games
ISBN: 9781857443707

Alekhine's Defence is a sharp and controversial opening in which Black attacks from the very first move, provoking White into lunging forward in the center. White is often able to construct an impressively large central pawn formation, but Black's hope is that this becomes over-stretched and disintegrates in the face of a vicious counterattack. Unsurprisingly, Alekhine's Defence has always been a favorite amongst uncompromising players such as Fischer and Alekhine himself, while more recently it's been utilized by the likes of Ivanchuk and Short. In this easy-to-read guide, openings expert John Cox goes back to basics, studying the essential principles of Alekhine's Defence and its numerous variations. Throughout the book there are an abundance of notes, tips and warnings to guide the improving player, while key strategies, ideas and tactics for both sides are clearly illustrated. *User-friendly lay out to help readers absorb ideas *Concentrates on the key principles of Alekhine's Defence *Ideal for the improving player

The Alekhine Defense Playbook

The Alekhine Defense Playbook
Author: Tim Sawyer
Publisher: Pickard and Son Publishers
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2000
Genre: Chess
ISBN: 9781886846166

After 1.e4 Nf6 Black is playing full contact provocateur chess. He develops a piece and attacks the White center pawn, drawing it forward to be targeted for siege. At first White gets to drive around the pesky Black Knight while gaining time and space - but is it hollow space behind a rickety pawn front, or a positional vice-grip? Grandmasters disagree, and for the rest of us to trot out Alekhines Defense has been like playing football without a helmet until now! Here at last Tim Sawyer introduces his precision game plan in The Alekhine Defense Playbook, a compact repertoire of pre-packaged Black mischief and mayhem. From the very first move theres no getting away from the Playbook, as White faces a clear-cut program of counterplay no matter what he does. Loaded with original analysis and plenty of common sense advice, the Playbook is your complete pocket guide to the hypermodern Alekhine Defense.

Alekhine's Defence

Alekhine's Defence
Author: Nigel Davies
Publisher:
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2002-02-01
Genre: Games
ISBN: 9781857442533

This book contains all the information necessary to start playing the opening, or meeting it as White.

Alekhine Alert!

Alekhine Alert!
Author: Timothy Taylor
Publisher: Gloucester Publishers Plc
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Chess
ISBN: 9781857446234

Timothy Taylor takes a contemporary look at one of Black's most ambitious counters to 1 e4, the Alekhine Defence. He constructs a practical repertoire for Black, ideal for the modern-day player.

The Complete Alekhine

The Complete Alekhine
Author: Graham Burgess
Publisher: B. T. Batsford Limited
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1992
Genre: Chess
ISBN: 9780713469431

This guide to learning, playing and winning with Alekhine's Defence is designed to be of interest to the chess player at all levels. Alekhine's Defence is one of the most provocative openings at Black's disposal and has always been popular with uncompromising players, such as Alexander Alekhine himself and Bobby Fischer, both former World Champions. In this up-to-date book the principles of play for both sides are explained via complete illustrative games. These provide the reader with a concise means of understanding practical ideas alongside essential theoretical knowledge of the critical main lines.

The King's Indian according to Tigran Petrosian

The King's Indian according to Tigran Petrosian
Author: Igor Yanvarjov
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 994
Release: 2019-05-09
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1941270581

Welcome to Tiger’s Den! Tigran Petrosian, the ninth world chess champion, was one of the deepest thinkers the chess world has ever seen. His handling of complex strategic positions was legendary. Now, for the first time, Russian international master Igor Yanvarjov has put together a superb collection of virtually all the known games played by Petrosian – with both colors – in the King’s Indian Defense and other closely related Indian structures. The author’s objective was, first of all, to reveal the richness of Petrosian’s chess world and to follow the strategic development of the King’s Indian Defense through the prism of Petrosian’s creative work. He does this with the presentation of almost 300 deeply annotated, complete games. Contents include: Preface by Levon Aronian; Foreword by Igor Zaitsev; The Classical Variation; The Sämisch System ; The Fianchetto Variation; The Benoni; Other Systems; Portrait of a Chess Player; Lessons from Petrosian; The Problem of the Exchange; “Furman’s Bishop”; “Pawns are the soul of chess”; Playing by Analogy; Maneuvering Battle; Experiments; Realist or Romantic?; The King’s Indian with Colors – and Flanks – Reversed; Appendix; Index of Tabiyas; ECO/Opening/Tabiya Indexes. This splendid collection of annotated games will not only have enormous appeal to King’s Indian aficionados, but to all chessplayers who wish to expand their understanding of the strategic concepts underpinning the royal game as a whole.

My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1937

My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1937
Author: Alexander Alekhine
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 594
Release: 1985-01-01
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0486249417

The best games of one of the best players in chess history. 220 games with Alekhine's own accounts. Spans 30 years of tournament play.