Bauer: The Modernized Alekhine Defense

Autor: Bauer, Christian
Verlag: Thinkers Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Sprache: Englisch
Buchumschlag: paperback
Seiten: 543

Rethinking the Alekhine Defense – Creative Strategies for Black

Building on his ever creative ideas, Christian Bauer found a way to take a fresh look at the current status of the Alekhine Defense. It’s clear that Christian has a definite weak spot for Knights. Surely you will appreciate his best efforts to bamboozle your opponents into self-destruction by using the Alekhine.

When Thinkers Publishing suggested I could try to produce a book on the Alekhine Defense, since for some reason I seem to have the reputation of using maverick openings, this idea looked reasonable. In that Covid period I had nothing better to do after all! After a few months I however realized that Thinkers Publishing had passed me a hot potato (many thanks!), i.e. the arduous task of checking the serious recent works of Kornev and Negi, plus the mammoth book of Chetverik and Kalinichenko, not to mention some "already ancient" suggestions fram John Shaw dated 2016!

You will therefore find some references to those inspiring sources throughout this book (Chetverik & Kalinichenko being abbreviated to C&K). I wasn't sure at first whether I wanted to talk about "all existing" lines of this intriguing opening, and discovered in the process there were quite a few, or whether I would sort them out to offer a Black repertoire. I finally decided on the first approach, to give you, dear reader, a broader choice. Among all the lines included in that book, the Four Pawns Attack Classical, covered in the Bonus Lines chapter, is probably the only one where a Black player would need more knowledge in order to be "safe" from a theoretical standpoint.

Hope you'll enjoy reading this book!
Christian Bauer

Content:
Chapter 1 - Alternatives on move 2
Chapter 2 - Alternatives on move 3
Chapter 3 - Four Pawns Attack
Chapter 4 - Exchange Variation with 5...exd6
Chapter 5 - Exchange Variation with 5...cxd6
Chapter 6 - Modern Variation with 4...--
Chapter 7 - Modern Variation with 4...g6
Chapter 8 - Modern Variation with 4...dxe5
Chapter 9 - Modern Variation with 4...Bg4
Chapter 10 - Bonus Lines
Chapter 11 - Exercises

543 Seiten, 1. Auflage 2021

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