Talk:Alekhine's gun

An earlier example
Raymond Keene points out Réti–Spielmann Vienna 1928 as an earlier example. We should probably mention this in the article. The arrangement of the major pieces is slightly different (the queen is in the middle), but the final position is strikingly similar. 165.189.91.148 17:21, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * It is quite a normal formation and happens in many games. If it's directed at the enemy king, the formation with the queen in the middle is generally strongest. Guido den Broeder (talk) 17:44, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Gun never fires
Since the gun never fires, it might be worth explaining the sequence that Alekhine is threatening to make, and why the rest of the game takes the form it does. Gdr 11:04, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, I had a go at annotating the game, but since I don't play chess I may have made a mess of it. I would appreciate someone checking and correcting the analysis. Gdr 20:27, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Moves listed are not PGN Compliant
Should the moves listed out be PGN compliant? If so, please replace the 0-0 (zero-zero) to O-O (the letter O). These are a capital letter O, not numeral 0. Also replace the parenthesis: "(" and ")", with flower brackets: "{" and "}". So the final listing of moves to make it PGN compliant would be like this:

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. Bd2 Ne7 6. Nb5 Bxd2+ 7. Qxd2 O-O 8. c3 b6 9. f4 Ba6 10. Nf3 Qd7 11. a4 Nbc6 12. b4 cxb4 13. cxb4 Bb7 14. Nd6 f5 15. a5 Nc8 16. Nxb7 Qxb7 17. a6 Qf7 18. Bb5 N8e7 19. O-O h6 20. Rfc1 Rfc8 21. Rc2 Qe8? 22. Rac1 Rab8 23. Qe3 Rc7 24. Rc3 Qd7 25. R1c2 Kf8 26. Qc1 {See diagram. This is the point at which Alekhine forms the gun.} 26. … Rbc8 27. Ba4 {Threatening 28. b5, winning the pinned Knight} 27. … b5 28. Bxb5 Ke8 29. Ba4 Kd8 {Guarding c7, so that the Knight can move away on 30. b5} 30. h4! {But now all black's pieces are committed to the defence against the gun, and he is running out of moves.} 30. … h5 31. Kh2 g6 32. g3 {Zugzwang} 1-0

Let me know if you would like me to make this change.

Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.164.157.221 (talk) 16:47, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Moves 31 and 32
What is the source for these moves? The link at chessgames has resignation after 30. h5 Mateo LeFou (talk) 12:55, 15 October 2009 (UTC)


 * The Chessgames reference does stop on move 30 but ChessBase gives 32 moves. Bubba73 (talk), 18:28, 15 October 2009 (UTC)