Talk:Alekhine's Defence

message: Alekhine Defence or Alekhine's Defence? Is one name more correct than the other? --Sonjaaa 20:04, Sep 5, 2004 (UTC)
ECO says Alekhine's, but both are generally accepted. --Fermatprime 20:23, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Alekhine Defence or Alekhine's Defence?

message: Does anyone know which one of the two Laskers invented the Lasker Alekhine Attack? The name should be linked, just to which one? Viruswitch 23:40, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've always known and read about it as the "Two pawn attack".  If anybody gave Emanuel Lasker credit for it, it's probably for just one game, same as in the Lasker-Pelikan variation (now Sveshnikov variation) of the Sicilian.  AFAIK, no opening name credits Edward Lasker.  --Wfaxon 15:44, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  It is probably named after Emanuel Lasker, but I can't be sure.  MCO says that the Alekhine was embrased by the hypermodern school when he used it to defeat Maroczy in 1924.  But the MCO-13 calls it the two pawns attack and has no Lasker games.   Bubba73 (talk), 16:17, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  This is probably the stem game (for the name, anyway): Em. Lasker v. Buchholtz, simultaneous exhibition, Copenhagen 1927, billed as an "Alekhine Defense: Hunt Variation. Lasker Simul Gambit" by www.chessgames.com.  That reminded me that I've also seen "Hunt variation" used for 4.c5, and I think that might even be more popular than "Two pawn attack".  (At least Google(tm) agrees...)  I'm pretty sure the Lasker name would be associated only with the subvariation.  --Wfaxon 17:36, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've just made some changes to the article, and MCO uses "two pawns attack", so I changed it to that. If you're familiar with the opening, please check the article for errors. Bubba73 (talk), 18:11, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  4.c5 is also known as the "Chase variation".  A lot of names for probably the worst of White's major lines.  --Wfaxon 18:28, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lasker attack

message: Someone put it in a reference to a supposed "minor variation" called "O'Sullivan's Gambit" (1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 b5). I've been playing chess for 35 years and have never heard of this. It simply loses a pawn for no compensation (hence the "gambit") to 4.Bxb5. I used Opening Explorer (members-only) on chessgames.com to search that site's 471,000+ game database, and found zero examples of this "variation." Since the variation seems to be so minor as to be virtually nonexistent, I've deleted it as non-notable. (Cf. my deletion of the similarly unseen "King David Variation" of the Sicilian Defense, 1.e4 c5 2.Ke2?). Krakatoa (talk) 19:12, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, obviously I know nothing about chess. I Googled it (should have done that first) and there is actually a fair amount on this goofy gambit. I even ran across two games where near-2300 players played the gambit and scored 1.5/2 with it. So I've put it back. See . Krakatoa (talk) 19:23, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: O'Sullivan's Gambit

message: Does anybody know anything about the Steiner Variation 1.e4 Nf6 2.d4 d5 3.c4, and does this merely transpose or does it have independent significance? 24.124.50.106 (talk) 08:00, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. I don't know what User:24.124.50.106 is talking about. Essentially the only second moves that are ever seen among players of any stature are 2.e5, 2.Nc3, 2.d3, and 2.Bc4?! Everything else either loses a pawn or is silly (2.f3, 2.Qe2, 2.Bd3, 2.Qf3). Krakatoa (talk) 07:08, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, I think the moves came out wrongly, googling this reveals the Steiner variation to be 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.c4 Nb6 4.b3. This may have some significance, but I must admit that I haven't studied it. Sjakkalle (Check!) 07:52, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not even mentioned in Alburt and Schiller, The Alekhine for the Tournament Player (American Chess Promotions, 1985). Encyclopedia of Chess Openings, Volume B, Third Edition (1997), p. 28 n. 55 mentions a game Ljubjevic-Oney, Praia de Rocha 1978 (Chess Informant, Volume 26, game 152) that went 4...d6 5.exd6, and now ECO gives 5...Qxd6 6.d4 Nc6 7.Be3 Qg6= as analysis by Hort. If a 134-page specialty book on Alekhine's (Alburt and Schiller) doesn't mention the line, it would seem that it is obscure enough that it probably doesn't warrant inclusion in our article. Krakatoa (talk) 17:16, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Steiner Variation

message: I have always heard of it being called 'Mokele Mbembe', is the other spelling used in the referenced work by Schiller? PeskyGnat (talk) 21:39, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. It is spelled "Mokele Mbebe" twice in John L. Watson and Eric Schiller, The Big Book of Busts, p. 120, which attributes this name to Stefan Bücker. Krakatoa (talk) 09:54, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like Schiller got it wrong, then. See Mokele-mbembe for what the variation is named after. 91.105.11.122 (talk) 14:38, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mokele Mbebe or Mokele Mbembe? 

message: some of these openings seem to have links, on the main picture, to chess games.com, I was gonna delete it as it seem to just be advertising but is there some relevant reason for it being there?  Broonsparrow (talk) 22:19, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  chessgames.com 

message: What is the significance of having the longest and shortest games of the variations?  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 04:05, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  longest and shortest games 

message: The entire section is WP:OR.  No reliable sources are provided demonstrating that this line is called "the Emory Tate Variation", and we can't promote that without a good source. A game on chessgames.com is completely unsatisfactory to support the claim that Tate was the first to play it.  The claims about the aims of the variation and the nature of the game are not cited. The claim that the variation has had a "surge in popularity" is unsupported, and probably not really true ("surge" isn't a specific term, so you could argue that it has).  The actual move that is associated with Tate is 5.Ra3.  The article says that Tate was the first to play 4.a4 in a serious tournament game, and that is false.  Probably the entire section should go. Quale (talk) 03:46, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Emory Tate Variation 

message: I feel as if it is quite taxing on the eyes to read this at length. Please cooperate and help make it easier to read by bolding all the chess notation, including the names of individual squares. --User:Brobotics Brofessor 12:47, 12 Sep 2017
:Non-standard use in hundreds of existing WP:CHESS articles. Exceptions are   bolded against annotations, or  bolded against descriptive text. Excess bolding can be a detraction to an article's main points & organizational structure. Bolding s/ have limited use per MOS:BOLD guideline: "Avoid using boldface for emphasis in article text." --IHTS (talk) 21:36, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Make this page easier to read

message: Statement The opening is named after Alexander Alekhine, who introduced it in the 1921 Budapest tournament in games against Endre Steiner[2] and Fritz Sämisch.[3]  has two links that are simply recorded games in question. They do prove Alekhine did use this opening in aforementioned games, but nowhere do they say he introduced it. For all we know it may have been a common opening already, back then. --Nomad (talk) 08:08, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: . Ok? --IHTS (talk) 08:36, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not in the source given