Alekhine Defense A Complete Guide Maxim Chetverik Nikola Kalinichenko by Maxim Chetverik; Nikolaĭ Kalinichenko 9785946936897, 5946936891 instant download after payment.

Introduction
'Just like King Midas, who was endowed with the power to turn everything
he touched to gold, Alekhine, the Russian maestro, has the same magical
touch in the opening-his audacious and incredible knight move pursues a
particular aim-breaking down White's pawn chain, which pays off in the
endgame .
The Alekhine Defense is a peculiar mix of open and semi-open systems.
Initially, Black obliges by letting his knight get kicked around by e5, d4,
c4, and f4, responding with Ng8-f6-d5-b6. White gets comfortable in the
center, but then Black starts chipping away at White's pawn chain (with d7-
d6, Nc6, etc .) and eventually, the tables are turned. Now White has to fight
tool and nail to maintain his initiative. '
Savielly Tartakower began his magnificent work entitled The
Hypermodern Chess Game with those two eloquently written paragraphs,
thereby signifying that the author attached a particular importance to the
Alekhine Defense. We recommend you take a look at Tartakower's analysis
of l . e4 Nf6, viewing our historical background section and his comments
as two entries on early chess theory and history. Now we have to move onto
some more dry material.
Like the authors' previous book, An Encyclopedia on the Dutch Defense,
this volume includes a theoretical section with illustrative games (exactly
1 00 of them) . The book's 87 chapters have been broken down into 1 6
separate parts. Not every chapter contains commentated games; however,
those chapters covering the hottest lines may have two or three, each of
them providing extensive analysis and numerous lines from other games.
The move order has been modified in certain cases to present the material
in a more coherent manner; luckily, one can dissect the Alekhine Defense's
constituent parts without sacrificing continuity, as it is such a flexible and
ingenuous opening system.
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