Skinner/Verhoeven: Alexander Alekhine’s Chess Games, 1902–1946 the big greek Pirc Defence - 1

Pirc Defence - 1

He knows that the best move in a specific position may be the opposite of what your intuition is urging you to play

Examines the strategic ideas underlying the Maroczy bind and related pawn structures

Die Beherrschung dieser taktischen Motive ist unerlässlich

These topics are the subject of this book

Skinner/Verhoeven: Alexander Alekhine’s Chess Games, 1902–1946 the big greek Pirc Defence - 12543 Games of the Former World Champion This is by far the most comprehensive accounting of the games of this brilliant chess player: an exhaustive catalog the result of many years of diggingan effort unparalleled in the history of chess game collections. Many of the games are annotated by Alekhine and range from his earliest correspondence tournaments in 1902 through his final match with Francisco Lupi at Estoril, Portugal, in January 1946. Leonard