How to Spot Alakine Defense Opening in a Chess Game

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"The next kings point opening will be Alakine's Defense. Alakine was a very great Russian Chess master, and world champion, and this is what he liked to play against the pawn to king's four opening. Instead of bringing out his pawn, he would typically play this; knight to king's bishop three. And what tended to happen thereafter was that the white pawn would attack the knight, which would usually then move into the center. The most common of the white next moves was probably pawn to queen's four, protecting his king's pawn. At this point white had many black had many alternatives. I think Alakine usually played this as his next move. Now he's attacking both pawns. This one, of course is defended by this one, this one is under attack, so the probable next move for white would be that. And then, probably the next thing will be to start thinking in terms of bringing the bishop out so he could castle, so he would usually play this move."