On the Road to the World Championship 1923 - 1927

Humor & Entertainment

Alekhine, Alexander

Puzzles & Games

Pergamon Press

The world's chess championship, 1937;: Official account of the games,

Dover Publications

World Champion from 1927-35 and again from 1937-46, Alexander Alekhine ranks as one of the four or five greatest players in chess history. Edward Lasker rates him the game’s supreme inventive genius; Euwe considers him the all-time greatest attacking player. A master of all phases of chess, his games were richly conceived and immensely complex. As Bobby Fischer observes in his writings, “He played gigantic conceptions, full of outrageous and unprecedented ideas.” This unequaled collection reproduces Alekhine’s 220 best games, his own personal accounts of the dazzling victories that made him a legend. Spanning almost thirty years of tournament play, it includes historic matches against Capablanca, Euwe, and Bogoljubov, and chronicles his brilliant ascent to world mastery, his surprising defeat in 1935, and his dramatic return two years later — the first deposed champion to regain his crown. Between 1927 and 1936 his successes in tournaments were unsurpassed by any master at any time in the history of chess. At San Remo 1930 and Bled 1931, in competitions that featured many of the world’s greatest players, Alekhine so outdistanced the field that he was indisputably in a class by himself. In a career including some seventy tournaments, he won first prize forty-one times, tying for first on nine occasions. He won or shared second prize fourteen times. Chess was Alekhine’s life; he lived for it alone. And although the final chapter of his career and his life were tragic, his achievements at the chessboard rank him as one of the game’s true artists. Filled with Alekhine’s own penetrating commentary on strategy and tactics, and enhanced by a revealing memoir, My Best Games is grandmaster chess at its most sublime. This volume belongs in the library of every serious student of the game.

My Best Games of Chess, 1908 - 1937

One of the greatest players of all time, Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946) was world chess champion for over 16 years. Not only a supreme master of the complicated position, he was also an excellent annotator. In this volume he supplies much information and insight about more than 100 games played between 1939 and 1945, as well as delightfully candid views on fellow masters and rivals for the world title. In Part One, devoted to open games, Alekhine analyzes games featuring such openings as the Ruy Lopez, Four Knights Game, Philidor's Defense, and the Scotch Gambit. Part Two is devoted to semi-open games, featuring the French Defense, Caro-Kann Defense, Sicilian Defense, Alekhine's Defense, and King's Pawn, Nimzowitsch Defense. In Part Three Alekhine discusses examples of closed games, including the Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense; Queen's Gambit Declined, Slav Defense; Queens' Gambit Accepted; Queen's Pawn, Nimzowitsch Defense; the Queen's Pawn Game, English Opening, Catalan System; and more. This book lets you discover the stratagems and strategies involved in a host of fascinating struggles between the world's greatest chess players: Alekhine, Capablanca, Bogoljubov, Kashdan, Reshevsky, Tartakower, Keres, Najdor, and numerous others. With characteristic thoroughness, clarity, and humor, Alekhine guides you through the intricacies of each contest, illuminating complicated positions and offering a world champion's special insight and commentary. Whatever your level of chess expertise, you'll enjoy and benefit from studying these games, presented and analyzed by one of the supreme strategists in chess history.

107 Great Chess Battles, 1939-1945 (Dover Books on Chess)

Alexander Alekhine held the World Champion title from 1927-1935 and again from 1937 until his death in 1946. His style of play was sharp and aggressive, in direct contrast to the ultra-positional style of his predecessor, Capablanca.

Alekhine's Greatest Games of Chess (Modern Chess Masterpieces)

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

World Chess Championship 1937

A treasury of enormous concepts and strategic instructions. Includes John Nunn's analytic footnotes. Includes 292 diagrams.

Alexander Alekhine's Best Games: Algebraic Edition

Batsford

Alekhine's games and writings inspired me from an early age. ...I fell in love with the rich complexity of his ideas at the chessboard. ...I hope readers of this book will feel similarly inspired by Alekhine's masterpieces. - from the Foreword by Garry Kasparov. 
 Alexander Alekhine captivated the chess world with his dazzling combinative play. His genius has been a strong influence on every great player since, none more so than World Champion Garry Kasparov. This book contains a selection of the very best of Alekhine's annotations of his own games, coverted to algebraic by John Nunn. These games span his career from the early encounters with Lasker, Tarrasch and Rubinstein, through his world title battles, to his meetings with the new generation of players who were to dominate chess in 1950s. 304 pages.

Alexander Alekhine's Best Games (Batsford Chess Library)

Nunn, John

Alexander, C. H. O'D

Henry Holt Co.

In these pages we see how Alekhine's preparation, both psychological and technical, bore brilliant fruit. Once he had pinpointed Euwe's weaknesses Alekhine struck with the force of a hurricane and regained the title by virtue of some of the most energetic, accurate and elegant play ever witnessed at world championship level.

Hardinge Simpole

London 1932 is one of the lesser known books from the pen of the prolific Russian genius, Alekhine. In 1932 Alekhine was still revelling in the blinding nimbus of invincibility which had surrounded him ever since his match victory against Capablanca in 1927. The new champion duly won the London tournament and furnished some equally fine notes to explain his victory, which Hardinge Simpole are proud and privileged to revive here.

Sixty-Six Master Games Played in the London International Chess Tournament, 1932 (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics)

Hardinge Simpole Limited

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On the Road to the World Championship 1923 - 1927

The world's chess championship, 1937;: Official account of the games,

My Best Games of Chess, 1908 - 1937

107 Great Chess Battles, 1939-1945 (Dover Books on Chess)

Alekhine's Greatest Games of Chess (Modern Chess Masterpieces)

World Chess Championship 1937

Alexander Alekhine's Best Games: Algebraic Edition

Alexander Alekhine's Best Games (Batsford Chess Library)

World Chess Championship 1937

Sixty-Six Master Games Played in the London International Chess Tournament, 1932 (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics)