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The best account of chess career of the Fourth World's chess champion A. Alekhine. The Third volume covers Alekhine's chess activities in 1925-1927. It was the busy period when Alekhine was poised to seize the world crown from Capablanca, covering several strong events (Paris and Badem-Baden in 1925, Hastings 1925-26, Semmering and Dresden in 1926, New York and Kecskemet in 1927) plus a host of simultaneous exhibitions. Includes contemporary accounts of events such as his amazing 25/28 world-breaking blindfold simultanoues at Paris in 1925, where Alekhine had to be lifted out of his armchar at the end of his 13-hour, 29-cigarrete marathon and detailed description of all known Alekhine's simul exhibitions at France, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Hungary, etc. The book contains 297 games, almost of them are fully annotated, Indexes of the players and openings, large photograph section.

The best account of chess career of the Fourth World's chess champion A. Alekhine. The First volume covers Alekhine's chess activities in 1892-1921. Czech historians are tracking down the games of the legendary Russian world champion. This volume begins with chess notebooks from Alekhine's childhood, charts his development into a world class player by St. Petersburg 1914, his detention and escape during World War One and his narrow scrape with the authoritites in Soviet Russia. As well the 334 games scores, some with notes, there are reproduction photos as a fascinating biography (British Chess Magazine review). Indexes of the players and openings.