[Event "RSFSR Team Ch"] [Site "?"] [Date "1951.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Aronin, Lev S"] [Black "Mikenas, Vladas"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B05"] [Annotator "Llewellyn, Alan"] [PlyCount "33"] {Lev Aronin seemed to like his Knight play- in a previous game he plays the same move as here namely Ne6 and both times the knight can only be taken by a pawn with disasterous effects on the defenders position. Here simply the famous opponent Vladas Mikenas, the Lithuanian Ineternational Master, resigns in a totally lost position after the move is played.} 1. e4 Nf6 {This Opening I know well -its called the Alekhine Defence, it may look strange to play the Knight out where it can be immediately kicked away by the move e5 -but doing so creates a weak pawn on e5 and Black immediatelly gains an advantage in the centre with his pieceplay more than compensating for Whites pawn target centre. Most top grandmasters so much respect the 'home terretory' effect of Black knowing the opening well that they will avoid playing the pawn advance 2 e5 and will instead play 2 Nc3 hopping maybe for 2...d6 and a Pirc Defence.} 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. Nf3 {This is the Modern Variation of the Alekhine.} Bg4 5. Be2 e6 6. O-O Nc6 7. c4 Nde7 $6 {Vladas had played this before against a lesser mortal than Lev and had done well but I think Lev had seen the game and had prepared a line to combat the rather dubious move. 7...Nb6 is more common and is ok for Black though the whole line is probably the greatest test of The Alekhine proper.} 8. exd6 $1 Qxd6 9. Nc3 Ng6 10. d5 exd5 11. cxd5 Bxf3 12. gxf3 Nce5 13. Nb5 Qd7 $6 (13... Qd8 14. f4 Nd7 15. f5 Nh4 16. Qa4 Bd6 17. Nxd6+ cxd6 18. Bb5 Nf3+ 19. Kg2 Nfe5 20. f4 Ng4 21. Re1+ Kf8 22. Bxd7 Qh4 23. Be3 Qxh2+ 24. Kf3 Qh3+ 25. Ke4 Nf6+ 26. Kd4 Qf3 27. Rac1 Qxd5+ 28. Kc3 Rd8 29. Bb5 Rc8+ 30. Kb4 Qe4+ 31. Ka3 $18 {and after the King hunt is over Lev would have had a won position.}) 14. f4 $1 Nh4 (14... Nf3+ {This was not much better after:-} 15. Bxf3 Qxb5 16. Re1+ Be7 17. f5 Nh4 18. Rxe7+ Kxe7 19. Bg5+ f6 20. Bxh4 $18) 15. fxe5 $3 {it looks like, on a superficial study of the position, that Vladas has a strong attack brewing with Qh3 threatening mate on g2 but he doesn't have ANY time to follow through with his threats.} Qh3 16. Nxc7+ $1 Kd8 17. Ne6+ $3 {What an exceptional move after 17...fxe6 18.dxe6+ Kc7 19.Qd7+ Kb6 20.Be3+ Vladas has nothing better than giving up his Queen and also on 17... Ke7 18.d6+ Kxe6 19.Bg4+ Vladas has to part with his Queen.} (17. Bg5+ $18 { this is winning too as Bxh4 is planned next move.}) (17. Nxa8 $4 Qg2#) 1-0