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Alekhine defences, definition and examples

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Yigor
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Dec 18, 2010
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Definition 1. A chess960 initial position is of dQB-type if there is a pawn, opening the diagonal way to the queen and to a bishop.The 2-squares move of such a pawn is called dQB-opening.

Definition 2. Alekhine defence in a dQB-game is a knight defence where a knight attacks the dQB-pawn on the 1st move.Cool

Here's our first exampleWink, there are 3 Alekhine defenses in BBNQNRKR, one of them :

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Melbourne_Chess_Club
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Sep 7, 2013
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A great video by FM Grant Szuveges on how to handle the Alekhine as white: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz6z7LW4zqI&list=PLSClIVKbmGUcMqFQVICgYPuO_a7DtDkWy&index=18

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Breakthrough_Man
Nov 27, 2013
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Counter The Alekhine's Defense

http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=657439005