Play the Alekhine Against Alekhine?

Is it a good idea to play a defense against the creator of the defense? Does anyone have other examples of players doing this when playing Black against the creator of the defense used?
[Event "?"]
[Site "Vitoria Gasteiz (Spain)"]
[Date "1941.12.19"]
[Round ""]
[White "Alekhine Alexander A (RUS)"]
[Black "Esnaola B"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "C29"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]

{[ VIENNA GAME,C29] Alekhine Alexander A (RUS) +9 =0 -3 Esnaola B +0 =0 -1 Alekhine Alexander A (RUS)-Esnaola B +1 =0 -0}
1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 {=} Nc6 ( 3...d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Nf3 Nc6
6.Bb5 Bb4 7.O-O O-O 8.Ne2 Bg4 9.Bxc6 bxc6 10.Kh1 Ng5 11.d3 f6
12.Bxg5 fxg5 13.c3 Be7 14.Qa4 Bd7 15.Nd2 c5 16.Rxf8+ Bxf8 17.Qb3
Bf5 18.c4 Rb8 19.Qc3 d4 20.Qc2 Qe8 21.Ng3 Bg6 22.Re1 g4 23.h3
Qe6 24.hxg4 Qxg4 25.Ndf1 Be7 26.b3 Bh4 27.Qd1 Qxd1 28.Rxd1 Re8
29.Ne2 Bh5 30.Rd2 Bg5 {0-1, Hector Jonny (SWE) 2539 - Caruana Fabiano (ITA) 2782 , Malme 5/16/2012 It (cat.16)}
) 4.fxe5 Nxe5 5.d4 Nc6 6.e5 Qe7 ( 6...Ng8 7.Nf3 d5 8.Bb5
( 8.Bd3 Nge7 {+0.68 CAP} ) Bd7 9.O-O a6 10.Bxc6 Bxc6 11.Ng5 f6
12.Ne6 Qe7 13.Nxf8 Qxf8 14.Qg4 Qe7 15.Bf4 Bd7 16.Qh5+ g6 17.Qf3
c6 18.exf6 Qf7 19.Rae1+ Kd8 20.Be5 Rc8 21.Na4 Bf5 22.Nb6 Rc7
23.Qg3 Nxf6 24.Qg5 Rf8 25.g4 Bxg4 26.Rxf6 Qxf6 27.Bxf6+ {1-0, Al-Modiahki Mohamad (QAT) 2577 - Goudioudi K, Hania 4/23/2003 Simultan}
) 7.Be2 Ng8 8.Nf3 b6 9.O-O h6 {+2.38 CAP} 10.Bf4 {N} Bb7 11.Nd5
Qd8 12.e6 d6 13.exf7+ Kxf7 14.Ng5+ hxg5 15.Bh5+ Rxh5 16.Qxh5+
Ke6 17.Bxg5 Be7 18.Qg4+ Kxd5 19.Qf3+ $20 1-0