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Play the Alekhine
The Most Forcing Reply to 1.e4
by Valentin Bogdanov

Play the Alekhine

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Publisher: Gambit, 2009
Edition: Paperback medium
ISBN: 978-1-906454-15-9
Pages: 128
Language: English

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The Alekhine is arguably the most forcing and aggressive reply to 1 e4.

Black immediately forces the pace and drags the game onto his own favoured territory. This strategy is not without risk, but those who specialize in the Alekhine find that the opening has a real practical sting and quick-strike potential.

This book describes the main positional and tactical themes unique to the Alekhine, and the principal directions of play in modern practice.

The coverage is even-handed, and there are abundant ideas presented to both sides, including ways for White to seek to consolidate his space advantage, or else to try to blast Black off the board.

The author, Valentin Bogdanov, has a wealth of experience with the Alekhine, having played it over the course of more than three decades.

Moreover, he was active in Odessa chess at the time when the Alekhine was extensively developed by a group of players including GM Palatnik and three-time US Champion Lev Alburt. He provides us not only with the benefit of his own wisdom, but also with insights frome some of the greatest Alekhine devotees of all time.

International Master Valentin Bogdanov has over thirty years' experience as a chess trainer, and is from Ukraine. His pupils include Moskalenko, Savchenko and Drozdovsky, and he has acted as a second for the well-known grandmaster and theoretician Viacheslav Eingorn since the late 1970s. This is his third book for Gambit.

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