Kornev: Play the Alekhine Defence CT Petersburg in 1911

Petersburg in 1911

g3 against all but a handful of Black replies

for the first time

ROOK VS KNIGHT & BISHOP

including his World Championship years

Kornev: Play the Alekhine Defence CT Petersburg in 1911In the Alekhine Defence, contrary to the classical methods of playing in the opening, Black does not fight for the centre with his pawns, but begins to exert immediate pressure against Whites centre. Blacks knight on f6 attacks the pawn on e4, and if it advances, then Blacks d pawn joins into the attack against it. The Alekhine Defence is particularly applicable in encounters against players who are inferior in class, as well as in games with a short