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Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns.
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culture · Russian-French chess player (1892–1946) · chess player · chess theoretician · writer · jurist · translator · also Alexander Alekhine, Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine, Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine, Alekhine
Born 31 October 1892 · Died 24 March 1946 · Q131374
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2023· 2 entries
The Free Press Journal: Alexander Alekhine Birthday Special: Dissecting His Remarkable Career
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2022· 1 entry
Terms), of which the defending champion would receive over half even if defeated
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2012· 1 entry
Levon Aronian said that he considers Alekhine the greatest chess player of all time
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1984· 1 entry
Between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov
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1958· 1 entry
Saw some of Alekhine's notebooks and found, in Alekhine's own handwriting, the exact text of the first antisemitic article, which appeared in Pariser Zeitung on March 18, 1941
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1946· 7 entries
Died 1946-03-24.
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“Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.”
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When Alekhine died in Portugal, in unclear circumstances
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“Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.”
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Tournament was withdrawn when the other competitors protested
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“I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.”
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“With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius.”
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1944· 2 entries
When Pomar, aged 12, achieved a creditable draw with the champion
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Narrowly won a match against Ramón Rey Ardid in Zaragoza (+1−0=3; April 1944) and won in Gijón (July 1944)
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1943· 1 entry
Drew a mini-match (+2−2) with Bogoljubov in Warsaw (March 1943), he won in Prague (April 1943) and tied for first with Keres in Salzburg (June 1943)
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1942· 3 entries
Alekhine wrote that Capablanca's demand for a $10,000 stake had been an attempt to avoid challenges
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Won at Warsaw/Lublin/Kraków (the 3rd GG-ch; October 1942) and tied for first with Klaus Junge in Prague (Duras Jubileé; December 1942)
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“he had to write two chess articles for the Pariser Zeitung before the Germans granted him his exit visa ... Articles which Alekhine claims were purely scientific were rewritten by the Germans, published and made to treat chess from a racial viewpoint.”
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1941· 1 entry
Tied for second-third with Erik Lundin in the Munich 1941 chess tournament (Europaturnier in September, won by Gösta Stoltz), shared first with Paul Felix Schmidt at Kraków/Warsaw (the 2nd General Government chess tou
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1939· 1 entry
When they were disrupted by World War II
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1937· 2 entries
Awarded world chess champion (1937).
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There were several new contenders, all of whom would have been serious challengers
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1935· 3 entries
With nine wins, thirteen draws, and eight losses
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The world championship match began in Zandvoort, the Netherlands
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But regained his crown in the 1937 rematch
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1934· 1 entry
Alekhine married his fourth wife, Grace Freeman (née Wishaar), sixteen years his senior
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1933· 3 entries
Alekhine demanded a match for a small stake
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Alekhine challenged Max Euwe to a championship match
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Alekhine also swept an exhibition match against Rafael Cintron in San Juan (+4−0=0), but only managed to draw another match with Ossip Bernstein in Paris (+1−1=2)
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1931· 2 entries
And drank heavily through the 1934 match with Bogoljubov
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Was his first loss in a serious chess event since winning the world championship
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1930· 1 entry
Gold medals for board one at Prague in 1931 and Folkestone in 1933, and the silver medal for board one at Warsaw in 1935
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1929· 1 entry
Bogoljubov was forty years old and perhaps already past his peak
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1928· 1 entry
Was gradually rehabilitated by the Soviet chess elite following his death in 1946
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1927· 6 entries
Awarded world chess champion (1927).
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Became the fourth World Chess Champion by defeating José Raúl Capablanca
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Married his third wife, Nadiezda Vasiliev (née Fabritzky), another older woman, the widow of the Russian general V
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Did not think he was superior to Capablanca, and he suggested that Capablanca had been overconfident
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Alekhine's challenge to Capablanca was backed by a group of Argentine businessmen and the president of Argentina, who guaranteed the funds, and organized by the Club Argentino de Ajedrez (Argentine Chess Club) in Buenos
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The French Chess Federation asked the Ministry of Justice to intervene in Alekhine's favor to have him lead the French team in the first Nation tournament to be held in London in July 1927
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1925· 1 entry
By playing twenty-eight games blindfold simultaneously in Paris, winning twenty-two, drawing three, and losing three
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1924· 2 entries
Broke the world record for simultaneous blindfold play when he played twenty-six opponents (the previous record was twenty-five, set by Gyula Breyer), winning sixteen games, losing five, and drawing five after twelve
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Applied for the first time for a residence privilege in France and for French citizenship while pursuing his studies in the Sorbonne Faculty of Law to obtain a PhD
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1923· 2 entries
Challenged Capablanca but were unable to raise the $10,000
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Won against André Muffang (+2−0=0) in Paris
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1922· 1 entry
Won against Ossip Bernstein (+1−0=1) and Arnold Aurbach (+1−0=1), both in Paris, and Manuel Golmayo (+1−0=1) in Madrid
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1921· 2 entries
Alekhine left Soviet Russia and emigrated to France, which he represented after 1925
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Won against Nikolay Grigoriev (+2−0=5) in Moscow, drew with Richard Teichmann (+2−2=2) and won against Friedrich Sämisch (+2−0=0), both in Berlin
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1918· 1 entry
Won a "triangular tournament" in Moscow
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1915· 1 entry
And a sixth, Flamberg, was allowed to return to Warsaw in 1916
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1912· 1 entry
(both drew with Yevgeny Znosko-Borovsky)
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1909· 1 entry
Won the All-Russian Amateur Tournament in Saint Petersburg
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1908· 1 entry
Alexander won the club's Spring Tournament, at the age of 15
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1907· 1 entry
Played his first over-the-board tournament, the Moscow chess club's Spring Tournament
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-10-31.
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