Alekhine's gun
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "other uses". Template:Chess diagram-fen Alekhine's gun is a formation in chess named after the former world chess champion Alexander Alekhine. It is a specific kind of battery. This formation was named after a game he played against Aron Nimzowitsch in San Remo, in 1930, ending with Alekhine's decisive victory. Template:AN chess
Concept
The idea consists of placing the two rooks stacked one behind another and the queen at the rear. This can lead to substantial Template:Chessgloss loss for the opponent, as it places considerable pressure on the "target" of the gun, especially if it is pinned (in this case it was only four moves before Template:Chessgloss).
Original "Alekhine's gun" game
Here is the game that spawned Alekhine's gun:
Other games
Six years later, in 1936, Alekhine defeated William Winter using Alekhine's gun again.[1] Since then, players have learned much about using and guarding against this formation; however, some modern international games are still lost or won by the force of this tactic. In November 2018, it was successfully used by Ju Wenjun against Kateryna Lagno in game 4 of the FIDE Women's World Championship.[2] The attack could have been refuted with perfect defense, but Lagno was unable to find it and resigned five moves later. Ju Wenjun went on to win the match and with it the title. Bobby Fischer used Alekhine's gun in game 1 of his 1992 match against Boris Spassky to penetrate Spassky's Template:Chessgloss.
In popular culture
The video game Alekhine's Gun is named after this chess formation.