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Annotated by bakerbaker (1200): I played this game at the Norwalk Championships. It shows the dangers of castling on the wrong side of the board. The Alekhine Defense.
Black wants to lure my pawns to attack his knight, causing me to overextend my position. Most people play 2. e5 here, but I didn't study the Alekhine back then, so I preferred the safer Nc3 over the sharper e5. A lot of times playing Nc3 will transpose into… |
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Annotated by dsb13 (2378): As with my other annotations, I would ask that anybody who reads this gives it a mark so I know how many people have actually read it.
Pilou and I are team mates on the Caissa team but found ourselves playing each other in this mini-tournament. In the first game JP blundered into a mate when trying to beat off a direct king-side attack. With colours reversed, pride at stake, and aware of my… |
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Annotated by kingstuart (1200): Alekhines Defence now the game has transposed to a scandinavian setup, but with the knights already developed to f6 and c3 white no longer has the option of playing c4 and if white exchanges on d5 blacks queen is not easily attacked in the centre as white no longer has his queens knight to force it back with. whites altenative here is e5 when Ne4 leads to interesting play exposing your queen … |
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Annotated by byakuugan3 (1200): I played this game at my club a couple days ago and decided to annotate it today. I sacrificed a pawn in the opening for superior development. Alekhine's defense, I want to entice White's central pawns forward so I can undermine them while White's centre will be left with weaknesses This is the best move against Alekhine, because e5 is overextensive. This is the most active move. All others will … |
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Annotated by byakuugan3 (1200): This was an online fast game I played a couple days ago. I have the Black pieces I don't like playing sicilian in short games because I tend to think a lot. Short timed games probably aren't good for my chess.
Alekhine defense entices White's pawns to move forward so they will become attackable. White decides not to overextend his position more and develop a piece instead I can open up the… |
