well played, especially for your level.
Alekhine's Gun
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The power of the gun was overwhelming!
Thanks. That was fun.
Firepower8 wrote:
excuse me for my stupidty but what is alekhines gun? the rook-queen-rook formation along the open file?
No, its rook rook queen along an open file.
Firepower8 wrote:
excuse me for my stupidty but what is alekhines gun? the rook-queen-rook formation along the open file?
No problem. Alekhine's gun is one of the most fun formations you can get your pieces to form. There are tons of things you can do with it. It's just plain powerful. It's not just the raw power of the rook queen artillery. Look at how easy it is to advance pawns if you have Alekhine's gun set up in the middle of the board. It's just a HUGE problem for your opponent. Usually their game goes the way of the dodo bird very quickly once you exploit the potential of Alekhine's gun.
In my game I achieved that position on move 30.
Here is a link about Alekhine's gun from chess.com. It includes the game between Alexander Alekhine and Aron Nimzovich where the formation got it's name. Alekhine has many games where he used this formation to wreak havoc.
http://www.chess.com/article/view/alekhines-gun
This was just a Blitz game but it was fun. On move 30 I got to set up Alekhine's gun!