Alekhine Defense: Modern Variation, Keres Variation
In the Alekhine Defense: Modern Variation, Keres Variation, aim to understand the plans and pawn structures, not just memorize the first moves.
The Alekhine Defense: Modern Variation, Keres Variation is a chess opening classified under ECO code B04. It is reached after the moves 1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. Nf3 g6 5. Bc4 Nb6 6. Bb3 Bg7 7. a4: 13 moves in, with Black to play.
It belongs to the Alekhine Defense family — one of many ways the line can branch. Understanding the parent system’s plans is the fastest way to play this variation well.
Club players rarely lose the Alekhine Defense: Modern Variation, Keres Variation in the opening itself. They lose it a few moves later, when the plan behind the moves runs out: that is what reading your own games in this line shows you.