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.
This volume belongs in the library of every serious student of the game..
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.
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.
Chess was Alekhine s life; he lived for it alone.
He won or shared second prize fourteen times.
In a career including some seventy tournaments, he won first prize forty-one times, tying for first on nine occasions.
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.
Between 1927 and 1936 his successes in tournaments were unsurpassed by any master at any time in the history of chess.
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.
This unequaled collection reproduces Alekhine s 220 Best games, his own personal accounts of the dazzling victories that made him a legend.
As Bobby Fischer observes in his writings, He played gigantic conceptions, full of outrageous and unprecedented ideas.
A master of all phases of chess, his Games were richly conceived and immensely complex.
Edward Lasker rates him the game s supreme inventive genius
Euwe considers him the all-time greatest attacking player.
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
