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Starting his reign in 1927, Alexander Alekhine dominated the world of elite chess for more than a decade. To this day, he is the only world chess champion to die while holding the title. On his way to the top, Alekhine dodged artillery on World War I battlefields, narrowly escaped a Bolshevik firing squad and negotiated with Nazis to escape occupied Paris. He also earned a reputation as a "grandmonster" of chess: arrogant, amoral and alcoholic.
This book explores both the triumphs that established Alekhine as one of the most creative minds ever to storm the chess world and the tragic choices that ended his career and, finally, his life. He is still one of the most controversial figures in chess history, but competitive chess as we know it would not exist without him.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
¿1.¿Prologue
¿2.¿Early Years
¿3.¿Chess at the Top
¿4.¿St. Petersburg
¿5.¿Mannheim
¿6.¿The Great War
¿7.¿Revolution
¿8.¿Comrade Alekhine
¿9.¿The West
10.¿Paris
11.¿London 1922
12.¿Waiting for Capablanca
13.¿New York 1924
14.¿Doctor Alekhine
15.¿The Challenge
16.¿Euwe
17.¿New York 1927
18.¿Buenos Aires
19.¿The Breakthrough
20.¿The Rift
21.¿The Feud
22.¿Top of the World
23.¿Treading Water
24.¿An Unwilling Challenger
25.¿Hubris Strikes
26.¿Ex-Champion
27.¿Chess and Politics
28.¿Euwe Again
29.¿AVRO 1938
30.¿War in Europe
31.¿Occupation
32.¿Looking for an Exit
33.¿Nazi Chess
34.¿Champion of Occupied Europe
35.¿Sojourn in Spain
36.¿Ostracized
37.¿A Challenge from the East
38.¿Conspiracy Theories
39.¿A Vacant Throne
40.¿Legacy
Richard Réti vs. Alexander Alekhine Baden-Baden 1925
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
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