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ISBN
9780486249414

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Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0486249417
ISBN-13
9780486249414
eBay Product ID (ePID)
991984

Product Key Features

Book Title
My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1937
Number of Pages
592 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Chess
Features
Reprint
Genre
Games & Activities
Author
Alexander Alekhine
Book Series
Dover Chess Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Weight
24.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
85-013046
Dewey Edition
19
Dewey Decimal
794.1/092/4 B
Edition Description
Reprint
Table Of Content
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTESUMMARY OF RESULTSPART I (1908-20) CHAPTER I. ST. PETERSBURG AMATEUR TOURNAMENT, 1909 CHAPTER II. INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT AT HAMBURG, 1910 CHAPTER III. INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT AT CARLSBAD, 1911 CHAPTER IV. INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT AT STOCKHOLM, 1912 CHAPTER V. ALL-RUSSIAN MASTERS' TOURNAMENT AT VILNA, 1912 CHAPTER VI. MASTERS' QUADRANGULAR TOURNA­MENT AT ST. PETERSBURG, 1913 CHAPTER VII. INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT AT SCHEVENINGEN, 1913 CHAPTER VIII. ALL RUSSIAN MASTERS' TOURNAMENT AT ST. PETERSBURG, 1913-14 CHAPTER IX. INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT AT ST. PETERSBURG, 1914 CHAPTER X. INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT AT MANNHEIM, 1914 CHAPTER XI. LOCAL TOURNAMENTS, EXHIBITION AND MATCH GAMES, SIMULTANEOUS AND CORRESPONDENCE GAMES, ETC. PART II (1920-23) CHAPTER XII. ALL RUSSIAN MASTERS' TOURNAMENT AT MOSCOW, 1920 CHAPTER XIII. INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT AT TROMERG, 1921 CHAPTER XIV. INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT AT BUDAPEST, 1921 CHAPTER XV. INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT AT THE HAGUE, 1921 CHAPTER XVI. INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT AT PISTYAN, 1922 CHAPTER XVII. INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT AT LONDON, 1922 CHAPTER XVIII. INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT AT HASTINGS, 1922 CHAPTER XIX. INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT AT VIENNA, 1922 CHAPTER XX. TOURNAMENT AT MARGATE, 1923 CHAPTER XXI. INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT AT CARLSBAD, 1923 CHAPTER XXII. MAJOR OPEN TOURNAMENT AT PORTSMOUTH, 1923 CHAPTER XXIII. EXHIBITION GAMES AND SIMUL­TANEOUS GAMES INDEX OF OPENINGS INDEX OF NAMES
Synopsis
The best games of one of the best players in chess history. 220 games with Alekhine's own accounts. Spans 30 years of tournament play., 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.
LC Classification Number
GV1439.A4A35 1985

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    16 May, 2024

    I feel you need to include on the listing that is classical notation instead of algebraic. Everything else perfect

    I feel you need to include on the listing that is classical notation instead of algebraic. Everything else perfect

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