Alekhine's gun

Alekhine's gun

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Alekhine-Nimzowitsch 1930
Position after 26.Qc1

Alekhine's gun is a formation in chess named after the former World Chess Champion, Alexander Alekhine. This formation was named after a game he played against another illustrious Grandmaster, Aaron Nimzowitsch in San Remo 1930, ending with Alekhine’s victory. The idea consists of placing the two rooks stacked one behind another and the queen at the rear. This can lead to massive damage to the opponent as it usually marks the beginning of the final assault (in this case it was only four moves before resignation).

The original "Alekhine's gun" game

Here is the game that spawned Alekhine’s gun:

Alexander Alekhine vs. Aaron Nimzowitschcite web |url= http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1012683
title= Alexander Alekhine vs Aron Nimzowitsch, 1930
publisher= chessgames.com] :

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. Bd2 Ne7 6. Nb5 Bxd2+ 7. Qxd2 0–0 8. c3 b6 9. f4 Ba6 10. Nf3 Qd7 11. a4 Nbc6 12. b4 cxb4 13. cxb4 Bb7 14. Nd6 f5 15. a5 Nc8 16. Nxb7 Qxb7 17. a6 Qf7 18. Bb5 N8e7 19. 0–0 h6 20. Rfc1 Rfc8 21. Rc2 Qe8? 22. Rac1 Rab8 23. Qe3 Rc7 24. Rc3 Qd7 25. R1c2 Kf8 26. Qc1 ("See diagram. This is the point at which Alekhine forms the gun.")26. … Rbc8 27. Ba4("Threatening 28. b5 followed by 29. bxc6 Nxb6 30. Bxb6 Rxb6 31. Rxb6 Rxb6 32. Rxb6 and then winning black's queen either tamely via 32. … Qxb6 33. Qxb6 or via an attack or pin against black's king, e.g. 32. … Qe8 33. Rc8 ")27. … b5 28. Bxb5 Ke8 29. Ba4 Kd8 ("Guarding c8 against the threatened attack.")30. h4!("But now all black's pieces are committed to the defence against the combination, so none are free to defend against an advance of white's kingside pawns.")30. … h5 31. Kh2 g6 32. g3 1-0

Six years later, in 1936, William Winter was defeated by Alekhine in Nottingham, who used Alekhine's gun again to secure the victorycite web |url= http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1008320
title= William Winter vs Alexander Alekhine, 1936
publisher= chessgames.com] . Since then, chess players have learned a lot about using and guarding against this formation. However, some international games are still lost and won by the force of this tactic.

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