Book on Alekhine defense

Hi All,

I am looking for a book on the Alekhine defense which is more about explaining the ideas and motives rather than just listing variations. 

Any suggestions?

Bryan Tillis has made a course on Chessable, I really dislike the Alekhine but I have heard good things about the author

YES!!

Alekhine Alert by IM Timothy Taylor

A repertoire book that suggests and explains lines that give black practical chances with the Alekhine, based on breaking apart the overextended white center

Strong recommend for people wanting to play the Alekhine

Alekhine alert by Timothy Taylor is a 100% repertoire book. I have it, and it serves me well from 1300 online to where I am now.

Vladimir Bagirov's.

Check out Timothy Taylor's book on archive.org here. I would also check out Eric Rosen's O'Sullivan's Gambit

The Alekhine in general is a mediocre opening. I used to play it, before I gave it up in favor of the Caro-Kann.

I have Taylor's book. I found it useful in some respects, but I feel some of the lines led me astray. Whether that's a problem with Taylor or with the Alekhine, I'm not entirely sure, and I no longer care enough to find out. I simply play another opening that I like better.

Alternatively, if you don't like pushing e5, you can always play something like Nc3 or d3. Although neither of them are challenging, you might be able to get a somewhat more normal game.

The Alekhine is probably one of those tricks only openings where you catch your opponent completely off-guard like the O'Sullivan Gambit.  

You really couldn't have been more wrong there. The only trick in the alekhine is tricking people into thinking the exchange is good for white.

I love the Alekhine. It’s weird and fun and not unsound. I love it when my opponents go into the main lines, but mostly they just play 2. Nc3.

Hanging Pawns has a good series on YouTube that takes all the main lines and a few sidelines to the tabiya. Glaringly, it’s missing the Scandinavian variation, and it’s not super deep, but it’s a good introduction. Four Pawns is the most aggressive for sure, but it’s also the most double-edged. The great thing is that if you play the Alekhine regularly, you will see it and be used to it. Your opponent sees the Alekhine maybe once in every 100 games or less.

By the way, 1. e4 Nf6 is the only black opening that has a greater win% for black than for white in that other website’s database.

@stevieg65 "Alekhine Defense: A Complete Guide" by Nikolay Kalinichenko.

Apparently there is a new book that came out last month called "The Modernized Alekhine Defense" by Christian Bauer, but I don't know anything about it and it's not cheap.

The Tillis course is a living course. He still updates it when something better is found in a variation.