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Alekhine, Alexander

Born Oct. 20 (Nov. 1), 1892, in Moscow; died March 24, 1946, near Lisbon; buried in Paris. Russian chess player, world champion from 1927 (after defeating J. R. Capablanca) to 1935 and from 1937 (after defeating M. Euwe, who took the championship from him temporarily) to 1946. Emigrated to France in 1921.

Alekhine was a representative of the Russian chess school of A. D. Petrov and M. I. Chigorin. He was a brilliant master of combination play and was the world’s champion in blindfold chess. His chess moves are thoroughly studied not only by Soviet chess players but by chess players all over the world.

WORKS

Moi luchshie partii. Translated, edited, and with a foreword by N. I. Grekov. Moscow-Leningrad, 1927.
Mezhdunarodnyi shakhmatnyi turnir ν N’iu-Iorke, 1927. Moscow-Leningrad, 1930. A collection of all championship games. (Translated from German.)
Na putiakh k vysshim shakhmatnym dostizheniiam (1924–27). Moscow, 1932. (Translation.)

References in periodicals archive

All the more remarkable was that politicians considered the possibility of playing against Alexander Alekhine, an emigre noble from Russia.

Valedictorians of the Soviet school: professionalization and the impact of war in Soviet chess

Then come the four great world champions, Wilhelm Steinitz, Emanuel Lasker, Jose Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine. This is the first volume and more are to follow.

Pastimes: Chess

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