I am willing to bet that in the age of computers this opening is going to come back into fashion. I used to play it a lot as black in my younger days.

This is one of my pet openings as well.

My favorite line used to be 2.e5 Nd5 3.Nc3. There was one strong player I beat in 9 moves with it ... twice! The same 9 moves, a year between games. Usually I played (after 3...Nxc3) 4.dxc3. The one time I tried 4.bxc3 - a perfectly playable line - I got my head handed to me.

Wow cool! I have never encountered this line. I have always seen 2. e5

This game and this line has enticed me into trying out the Vienna Game for 1. e4 e5 rather than 2. Nf3 I have been trying 2. Nc3. Sometimes it takes the silliest things to get you to notice something obvious.

With a 200+ point difference it is safe to say that you are not taken him out of something he has not seen before. The best advice that I can give you is that you stick with well developed lines in the opening phase and be more creative in the middle game.

I hate this opening with a passion.

very boring situation, but what follows is very interesting !

I'm not a fan of it either. When I'm white and I play this, I almost always go Halloween Gambit, it's fun.

White gets some compensation and for a while holds the initiative, but never quite has enough, I feel.

I am right in assuming that white is giving up a Knight for a pawn! If that is the case as black I would take this to the bank and for the win

As white the main line of the Alekhine's defense is pretty strong for white.

But this is the 'point' of the gambit. isn't it? White builds a big centre - establishes something of a bind, withal - and Black has to 'undevelop' one of his pieces.

Not to mention be two whole pawns down!

Phew! I am glad you saw the error of your ways.

The serious flaw in this move is that it moves a pawn in front of the king. This is something that masters aim to entice their opponent to do. Which results in a exploitable weakness

I recommend Bc4, aiming at the black weakness f7, and prepares kingside castle. And like elyhim says, f4 is probably a weakness more than a strength.

This FYI is for the black Alekhine's major weapon against the white center.

A tactical mistake Black at once seizes upon. More circumspect was 8.Be2.

Now black has a door of the size of a broad size barn door to walk into through

brilliant move by black

very nice, i'll rember it

I assume you mean 11. Bf7+, Kxf7 and Qxd8. however black doesn't have to take the bishop and can play Ke7. Of course black is in trouble with a move such as f6, but just wanted to point it out.

Black has only really regained his piece but what is really telling is the pawn advantage and the extra minor piece

Black now has the initiative by the throat... White has either to accept the exchange of a queen and minor piece whilst already a piece behind; or find his queen passively placed, his King stuck mid=board and under heavy attack. Poor Hobson...

Now we see the lack of the move 12. Bd2. The white queen can no longer move along the d-file. Maybe 12.Bg5 is better, since if black responds unthinkingly with h6, Qd8#(checkmate) follows!