In the 40-board session, the world champion lost four games. Among the Bulgarians who resisted Alekhine was the poet Teodor ...

Alexander Alekhine, the late renowned chess player, was one of the finest to grace the game. He occupies the top 10 best-ever-lists of most experts and became the fourth official World Champion, ...

Sometimes, people boast ‘I could beat you with one hand tied behind my back’, or ‘I can do that blindfolded’. The picture below, (although a blindfold is missing, but the guy in center is facing away, ...

Perhaps an inspiring way to begin the New Year is to focus on one of the finest chess attackers of all time, Dr Alexander Alekhine, (Moscow 1892-Estoril, Portugal 1946). Alekhine was an undisputed ...

In Buenos Aires 32 small statues stood upon a polished piece of wood. Sixteen of them were white; behind these sat a middle-aged Cuban, Jose Raul Capablanca, chess champion of the world. Behind the ...

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