A real Alekhine game

Submitted by cgs on Sun, 08/30/2009 at 6:18am.

In my previous article demonstrated an interesting game of Alekhine. According to a number of people Alekhine made it up. Now i read in his biography that in the period of the game he played a lot of practising games with masters of Moscow and in particular with Grigoriev. It looks like that the Five Queens game was one of these practising games. The next Alekhine game i found between his 300 select games in the Panov book. Now demonstrate it with analyzing of Alekhine. I’ll mark my comments separate. This is a real Alekhine game which demonstrate how must keep the initiative. The adversary is Nimzovitch which fact is increasing the rank of the game.

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by RoyalFlush1991 - 2 months ago
Massachusetts United States

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Love your articles cgs. It's been a while since the last one, I've missed them

by cgs - 2 months ago
Veszprém Hungary

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Both perception are interesting. Chessiq's perception is standing near to reality. Well let's place the pieces on the chessboard and follow the 42... Kxb7 move. Really White have two pawns for the Bishop. But will lose one pawn and than the Bishop wins against a pawn. Only one demonstration (here are more): 43.Rc4 (the better) a6 44.a4 Rd5 45.a5 Bd8 46.Rc5 Rxg5 47.Rxg5 Bxg5 48.Kd3 Kc6 49.Kc4 Bf6! 50.d5+ Kd6 51.b5 axb5+ 52.Kxb5 Kxd5 (as usually in the endgame the position of Kings is decisive) 53.Kb6 Bd8+ 54.Kb5 Bxa5 55.Kxa5 Ke4 and the Black h-pawn will be the Queen. Only 13 moves. It was a short demonstration.

by chessiq - 2 months ago
Malawi

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Rolphynho, your suggestion starting with 41.Qb7+ seems to be very good way to defend a difficult position. It is better than what was played in the game.

by Rolphynho - 2 months ago
Reghin Romania

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I would really like an expert opinion on: 41. Qxb7+ Qxb7 42. Rxb7+ Kxb7 because i have the feeling that the resulting endgame leads to a position from which white can obtain a draw.

by peanutz - 2 months ago
Bahrain

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Good annotations.

Very good game

by chessiq - 2 months ago
Malawi

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Good job with the annotation! Thanks for posting.

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