Alapin Gambit (3)

N N B B Ba5 5.Bxc6 dxc6 (9 games)

Database: 31-XII-2010 (4,399,153 games)
Report: 1.e4 e5 2. f3 c6 3. b5 b4 4.c3
ECO: C60i [Spanish: Alapin, 4.c3]
Generated by Scid 4.2.2, 2011.02.15

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0.1 Statistics and History
0.1.1 Statistics
1 1
Games 1:0 :
2 2
0:1 Score
All report games 9 2 3 4 38.8%

0.1.2 Oldest games

1: 0:1(33) Otto Pavel – Alapin, 1897 6
2: 1:0(47) Pillsbury – Alapin, Vienna 1898 9
3: : (57) Steinitz – Alapin, Vienna 1898 4
1 1
2 2
4: 1:0(62) Showalter – Alapin, Vienna 1898 3
5: 0:1(39) Marco – Alapin, Vienna 1898 2
6: : (64) Fransson – Hector, 1990 5
1 1
2 2
7: 0:1(24) Spasic Aleksandar – Theofel Heiner, 1996 1
8: : (25) Frazao Sofia – Gil, 1997 8
1 1
2 2

0.1.3 Newest games

1: 0:1(14) Mehrabian Abbas – Theofel Heiner, 2001 7
2: : (25) Frazao Sofia – Gil, 1997 8
1 1
2 2
3: 0:1(24) Spasic Aleksandar – Theofel Heiner, 1996 1
4: : (64) Fransson – Hector, 1990 5
1 1
2 2
5: 1:0(47) Pillsbury – Alapin, Vienna 1898 9
6: : (57) Steinitz – Alapin, Vienna 1898 4
1 1
2 2
7: 1:0(62) Showalter – Alapin, Vienna 1898 3
8: 0:1(39) Marco – Alapin, Vienna 1898 2
0.1.4 Current popularity
Year 1800-99 1900-49 1950-69 1970-79 1980-89 1990-99 2000-09
Once every X games 2791 — — — — 531559 1923931
Frequency in all years: once every 488794 games
In the 10 years to today: once every 0 games (no change from all years)
In the 5 years to today: once every 0 games (no change from all years)
In the 1 year to today: once every 0 games (no change from all years)

0.1.5 Most frequent players (White)

1: 1 1898 50% Steinitz, Wilhelm 4
2: 1 1897 0% Otto Pavel 6
3: 1 1898 100% Showalter, Jackson 3
4: 1 1898 100% Pillsbury, Harry 9
5: 1 1898 0% Marco, Georg 2
6: 1 1990 50% Fransson, Peter 5

0.1.6 Most frequent players (Black)

1: 5 1897–1898 50% Alapin, Simon 2,3,4,6,9
2: 2 1996–2001 100% Theofel Heiner 1,7
3: 1 1990 50% Hector, Jonny 5
4: 1 1997 50% Gil, Carla 8

0.2 Ratings and Performance

0.2.1 Average ratings and performance
White rating: 0 (0 games); White performance: 0 (0% vs 0)
Black rating: 0 (0 games); Black performance: 0 (0% vs 0)

0.2.2 Games with highest average rating

1: 1 1
:
2 2
(57) Steinitz – Alapin, Vienna 1898 4
2: 1:0(47) Pillsbury – Alapin, Vienna 1898 9
3: 0:1(39) Marco – Alapin, Vienna 1898 2
4: 1:0(62) Showalter – Alapin, Vienna 1898 3
5: : (64) Fransson – Hector, 1990 5
1 1
2 2
6: 0:1(33) Otto Pavel – Alapin, 1897 6
7: : (25) Frazao Sofia – Gil, 1997 8
1 1
2 2
8: 0:1(14) Mehrabian Abbas – Theofel Heiner, 2001 7

0.3 Result Trends

0.3.1 Result lengths and frequencies
Score Game length Frequency
1:0 12 : 12 0:1 1:0 1 1
:
2 2
0:1
Report games 38.8% 54 48 27 22.2% 33.3% 44.4%
All games 53.9% 39 35 40 38.6% 30.5% 30.7%
0.3.2 Shortest wins (White)
1: 1:0(47) Pillsbury – Alapin, Vienna 1898 9
2: 1:0(62) Showalter – Alapin, Vienna 1898 3

0.3.3 Shortest wins (Black)

1: 0:1(14) Mehrabian Abbas – Theofel Heiner, 2001 7
2: 0:1(24) Spasic Aleksandar – Theofel Heiner, 1996 1
3: 0:1(33) Otto Pavel – Alapin, 1897 6
4: 0:1(39) Marco – Alapin, Vienna 1898 2

0.4 Moves and Themes

0.4.1 Move orders reaching the report position

N N B B B B
There was only one move order reaching this position:
1: 1.e4 e5 2. f3 c6 3. b5 b4 4.c3 a5 5. xc6 dxc6 (9)

0.4.2 Moves from the report position

Move ECO Frequency Score µElo Perf µYear % Draws
1 N
xe5 8: 88.8% 43.7% 1935 38%
2 O-O 1: 11.1% 0.0% 1996 0%
Total 9: 100.0% 38.8% 1941 33%

0.4.3 Positional Themes

Frequency of themes in the first 20 moves of each game:
Same-side castling: 22% White Isolated Queen Pawn: 0%
Opposite castling: 0% Black Isolated Queen Pawn: 11%
Kingside pawn storm: 33% White Pawn on 5/6/7th rank: 44%
Queens exchanged: 100% Black Pawn on 2/3/4th rank: 0%
Only one side has Bishop pair: 0% Open c/d/e file: 67%

0.4.4 Endgames

R Q QR
Material at the end of each game:

p BN R BN Q BN QR BN
Report games 11% 11% 22% 11% 0% 0% 0% 44%
All games 3% 9% 9% 25% 2% 4% 4% 43%
 0.5 Theory Table
N N Bb5 Bb4 4.c3 Ba5 5.Bxc6 dxc6: +2 =3 –4 (3.5/9: 39%)
1.e4 e5 2. f3 c6 3.
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
N xe51 Nc4 Qe2 Kxe2 Bf4 Re1 Nbd2 2: 0%
Q Qxe4+ Qxe2+ Bb6 Ne7 Be6 Kd7
1 d4
2
e7 f6
Nf3 Be3 Nbd2 a4 3
Ra3 2: 75%
Qxe4+ Bb6 Qd3 a5 Ne7 Qf5
2 ... ... c4
4
... ...
Nf35 Rg1 Rg3 d3 Rxg7 Ng5 Rxh7 2: 25%
Q Q Qh3 Qe6 Ne7 Ng6 Qe5 Rxh7
3 ...
6
g5 xg2
Rxg7 Rg3 Rg5 Rxa5 Ng5 2: 25%
7

Ne7 Qh5 Qh3 Bg4 Qh5

4 ... ... ...
8
... ... ...
Qxf3 1: 100%
Bg4 Bxf3 Qxf3
5 ... ... ... ... ... d4 h3
9
... ... ... ... ...

1
6.OO Bg4 7.d3 f6 8.h3 Bh5 9.Qe2 Ne7 10.d4
OO 11.g4 Bf7 12.dxe5 Ng6 13.exf6 Qxf6
14.Ng5 Nf4 15.Bxf4 Qxf4 16.Nxf7 Rxf7
17.Qc4 Rxf3 18.Qd4+ Ke8 19.Nxf3 Bxf3
20.Qf2 Qh1+ 21.Qf1 Qh4+ 22.Qf2 Qh1+
23.Qf1 Qh4+ : (25) Frazao Sofia – Gil, 1997.
1 1

17.Kg2 Rd8 18.f3 Bb6 19.Rd1 Rxd1 14.Rxf3 Rg8 15.Kf1 c5 16.dxc5 Rd8 17.Nd2
2 2

20.Qxd1 Qe3 21.Nd2 Rd7 22.Qb3+ Kf8

9

c6 18.Ke2 Bc7 19.Nf1 Ng6 20.Bg5 Rd7

23.Nc4 Qf2+ 0:1(24) Spasic Aleksandar – 21.Ng3 Bxg3 22.fxg3 Nf8 23.Bf6 Ne6
Theofel Heiner, 1996.
14.Be3 a6 15.Nxb6+ cxb6 16.c4 b5 17.c5 a5
1:0(47) Pillsbury – Alapin, Vienna 1898.
2

18.Ne4 Nd5 19.Kd2 b4 20.Nd6 b5 21.Re2 a4

22.a3 bxa3 23.bxa3 b4 0:1(39) Marco – Alapin,
Vienna 1898.
3
R K N Q
B N Q N N
10.OO h5 11. e1 f8 12.a4 a6 13. bd2 f5

Q B R Q Q
14.a5 a7 15. h4 h7 16.f4 e7 17. df3 g6

K R R K
18. e2 d7 19.c4 e8 20. d2 f7 21.b3
g7 22. f1 hf8 23.f5 h8 1:0(62)
Showalter – Alapin, Vienna 1898.
4
R K B
N K R Q R Q
14.OO h5 15. e1 f7 16.d5 cxd5 17. xb6

N Q R B B
cxb6 18. e5+ g8 19. f3 g5 20. g3 f4
21. d3 d6 22. ge3 g4 23.f3 f5 21 : 12 (57)
Steinitz – Alapin, Vienna 1898.
5
Q Q Q N N
N R R B N
7.d4 xg2 8. f3 xf3 9. xf3 f6 10.a4 a6

B B N N B N
11. bd2 OO 12. g1 e8 13.e5 b6 14. c4

B B N R
a7 15. g5 d5 16. e3 e6 17. xd5

B N B
xd5 18. f6 g6 19. d2 b5 20. g4 c5
21.dxc5 xc5 22. e4 f8 23.axb5 axb5
1 1
: (64) Fransson – Hector, 1990.
N Q Q Q K Q
2 2
6

K B Q K N K
14. xh7 xh2 15. h5 g1+ 16. d2 xf2+

B K K R
17. d1 e6 18. g5 d7 19. f6+ c8

B
20. d2 b5 21. c2 b7 22.a4 bxa4 23. xa4
b6 0:1(33) Otto Pavel – Alapin, 1897.
7
N Q Q Q Q
K B K Q
10.d4 g6 11. b3 xf3 12. a3 xe4+
13. d1 g4+ 14. d2 e2+ 0:1 Mehrabian
Abbas – Theofel Heiner, 2001.
8
14.Qb3 Qxh2 15.Qxf7+ Kd7 16.f3 Raf8