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Alapin's Opening

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beebejoe
beebejoe
Aug 21, 2010
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#1

I have been trying to learn this opening, but I cannot find anything on it anywhere on the internet.  Help!

mnag
mnag
Aug 21, 2010
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#2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alapin's_Opening

http://blog.chess.com/Grakovsky/alapins-opening-highlights

http://www.eudesign.com/chessops/alap-app.htm

http://www.chesscafe.com/text/skittles300.pdf

DrawMaster
DrawMaster
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Aug 21, 2010
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#3

I presume you mean: 1.e4 e5 2.Ne2. There are some 74 games in the chess.com Game Explorer that begin with these moves. But, yes, it is an obscure opening, without a lot of press. Sometimes Black adopts this strategy, as he won't be relinquishing his opening move advantage with a passive position (See Ljubojevic's game at Groningen in 1970). Don't know if there's ever been a book dedicated to this from the White side, however.