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Alekhine's Defence

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Alekhine's Defence

Summary

Alekhine's Defence is a chess opening[1]. It draws 204 Wikipedia views per month (chess_opening category, ranking #29 of 129).[2]

Key Facts

  • Alekhine's Defence's image is recorded as Alekhine Defense 1. e4 Nf6.png[3].
  • Alekhine's Defence's instance of is recorded as chess opening[4].
  • Alexander Alekhine is named after Alekhine's Defence[5].
  • Alekhine's Defence's subclass of is recorded as Semi-Open Game[6].
  • Alekhine's Defence's subclass of is recorded as King's Pawn Game[7].
  • Alekhine's Defence's part of is recorded as chess terminology[8].
  • Alekhine's Defence's sport is recorded as chess[9].
  • Alekhine's Defence's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03tl5v[10].
  • Alekhine's Defence's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://chess.stackexchange.com/tags/alekhines-defense[11].
  • Alekhine's Defence's Portable Game Notation is recorded as e4 Nf6[12].
  • Alekhine's Defence's position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation is recorded as rnbqkb1r/pppppppp/5n2/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 1 2[13].
  • Alekhine's Defence's ECO code is recorded as B02–B05[14].

Why It Matters

Alekhine's Defence draws 204 Wikipedia views per month (chess_opening category, ranking #29 of 129).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

Alexander Alekhine

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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