Alexander Alekhine – The Russian Sphinx: Volume II (1921-1934) is Sergey Voronkov’s psychological biography of the fourth world champion, focused on Alekhine’s strongest chess and most dominant period.
This volume covers his first years of exile in France, major international tournaments on both sides of the Atlantic, rivalries with Rubinstein and Nimzowitsch, the training match with Euwe, and the drama of three world championship matches with Capablanca and Bogoljubov.
It presents 84 games and fragments, including 46 never before published in books, with contemporary commentary from the protagonists and other leading players, writers, and journalists of the period. Extended commentary by Euwe, Nimzowitsch, and Kmoch is prominent, with modern engine analysis by International Master Dmitry Plisetsky.
This work is also supplemented by over 100 photographs and drawings, many of which are published in a book for the first time. Browse more titles in our Chess Books category or compare it with The Modernized Marshall Attack.
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