Alekhine's defense

hi,

just wondering what you guys think of this opening....is it pretty solid?do any of you play it with any regularity?

I play it quite often, but I'm weening off of it right now.  Now I love to play against it.  I've analyzed the four pawns attack from white perspective to death! 

You can see it here

http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/opening-study-forum-alekhines-defense---four-pawns-attack

It's a fun open if you like hypermodern type of strategies (ignoring the center and patiently waiting for counter attacks ... waiting your opponent to over extend himself etc..).  It often transposes into the advance variation of the french if white responds with 2. Nc3 instead of e5 ( i.e. 1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. e5 Nfd7 4. d4 c5).    Sometimes it kind of turns into a weird Scandinavian type of opening except there is no Knight to harass the queen on c3  (i.e. 1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. exd Nxd 4.Nxd Qxd).

I often play it in live chess, where people don't have time to think and often make terrible mistakes, but I rarely play online, too much chance of people using game explorer to avoid mistooks!

every time

in serious games

sometimes i play e5 in fun games so i can play the lativan