Is the alekhine defense just subpar?

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poucin

u are 1200 and u think results of your games make an opening good or not?

At your level, the opening is not the problem, and Alekhine is played by some GM so...

The problem with this opening is that it is difficult to play compared to other ones (like 1.e4 e5 and french for example which are recommended in my opinion).