Kornev: Play the Alekhine Defence Klassiker champion of Leningrad and St

champion of Leningrad and St

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Kornev: Play the Alekhine Defence Klassiker champion of Leningrad and StIn the Alekhine Defence, contrary to the classical methods of playing in the opening, Black does not fight for the centre with his pawns, but begins to exert immediate pressure against White's centre. Black's knight on f6 attacks the pawn on e4, and if it advances, then Black's d pawn joins into the attack against it. The Alekhine Defence is particularly applicable in encounters against players who are inferior in class, as well as in games with a