Hi GP, thanks for the blog, with the lock down I find myself checking for your latest one more frequently.
Regarding the Alekhine-Chattard analysis from the British Chess Magazine, according to my database, which is incomplete for games before around 2004, the position after black's twelfth move has been reached 6 times and in every case white played 13. 0-0-0, scoring 83.3% for white. Which is a bit of a shame really. The position after white's thirteenth move's been reached 15 times. Here's one of them where Colin Crouch was white, from 1991, so he clearly hadn't been reading his British Chess Magazines:
Thanks, BCM does enclosed the word 'forced' so it will not be forced. There will
be other Black defensive tries but I'm not surprised of the White plus score.
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