Alekhine Defence

Hi, chess players! I need a good defence against the Alekhine. Thanks!

An anti-Alekhine now. Hmm.

The strongest variation is also the sharpest: the main line with 2. e5.

If you want a more drawish variation than the usual 2. e5, you can try to transpose into the Four Knight's Game with 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 e5 although Black can play the Scandinavian Variation instead: 2. Nc3 d5 3. exd5 Nxd5, although that is still on the drawish side and gets into lesser known territory.

How can a person be rated 3300??

If 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.c4 Nb6, what should I do next? Exchange or develop? 

What about 3...d6?

They can't. Even "perfect chess" would be rated lower than that. BOS is an idiot.

After Nb6, that knight is strangely placed.

you can be rated 3300 and even 3800 and even 500 trillion

True. Just like IQ scores, there is no theoretical upper (or lower!) limit since such scores are based on statistics. Very high scores simply become astronomically unlikely and/or astronomically difficult to achieve. I fully expect to see chess ratings soar to way above 3000, maybe to 4000 or higher, with the advent of intelligent machines someday.

I had assumed that Lisa was joking. Now I'm not so sure. You are both wrong. With the rating system as it currently stands, 3.3k is an impossible rating. That is just a fact. If you can't see why then make another stupid post and I'll probably waste more of my time by explaining what should be painfully obvious. I just can't help myself...

Lol the whole point of the Alekhine is to get white's pawns in black's territory,force exchanges and then gobble the pawns up.

Here's what stockfish says about the alekhine...

No you're wrong  The Arpad Elo rating system is infinite, as "it currently stands"

There are even people on this website with 3700 in Tactics, and this system doesn't just apply to chess FYI.

http://www.chess.com/members/view/Gabrinsky

But 3300 is even low for Stockfish-6, let alone the potential of human and computer evolution over billions of years ^^ 

not a good opening. 

Too bad we really shouldn't listen to engines when looking at openings... 

In game types that aren't theoretically drawn with perfect play it may be theoretically possible to have an infinitely high rating. News flash... There are draws in chess. chess is a drawn game. I shouldn't have to explain more, the penny should have dropped, but I really can't be bothered to have to post here again. It is 30 degrees and I am not in an active mood...

Tactics trainer = no draws = infinite rating "possible". 3.3k being low for stockfish 6 is the funniest thing I have ever heard. On a different scale perhaps, you know, like the one they use to measure chess engines for the purpose of tricking idiots like yourself... On the human FIDE Elo scale 3.3k remains completely and utterly impossible as current inflation stands and now I will finally explain why. It is so simple... So so simple...

I am going to give you three numbers. 1% is what a 2.5k (GM) would have to score to maintain ratings versus a 3.3k opponent. You ask any GM in the world (with a GM level rating) if they believe that they could draw 1 (or more) in 50 games against "perfect chess" and they will punch you in the face for asking such an absurd and insulting question.

You might say that this perfect chess machine isn't obligated to play such "weak" players. I'm not sure that is correct, but even if it was... numbers 2/3/4 in the world rankings (2816,2816,2814) would be required to score less than 6% against a 3.3k opponent to maintain their ratings. Clearly a ridiculous figure that they would all smash with their eyes closed.

Finally, even the worlds number one, Magnus Carlsen (2853), would only have to score 7% to maintain rating vs a 3.3k opponent.

Now since all of these task would be so unbelievably easy, that clearly proves that not even "perfect chess" would be rated anywhere nera as high as 3.3k, let alone any current chess engine.

If you didn't follow any of my logic, do not feel free to ask me further questions as I am simply incapable of dumbing down this topic any more. Plus, you know, 30 degrees... I am basically dead right now...

That really is the whole point of the opening. To provoke white in overextending and give him just enough rope to hang himself. Thinking that Nb6 is strangely placed is true to some extend but please don't overestimate your position. In this regard I'd gladly point to a quote of a favourite movie of mine, revolver.
' The victim does all the hard work, you just help him along.  Feed the pieces to the victim.  The victim takes them because he’s smarter and your dumber.  Place the victim in an environment he can control.  The bigger the environment, the easier to control.  Toss the dog a bone.  Find his weakness.  Give him just a little of what he thinks he wants.  Distract the victim by getting him consumed with his own consumption.'
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSFC4C8GVdI