The fourth World Champion was one of the game's greatest players and biggest personalities. Alekhine was a player of universal style, combining brilliant tactical play with excellent planning and technique. Very few of his games are routine as he was constantly on the look out for unexpected ways to gain or transform an advantage. This, the first of a three volume series, contains 464 of Alekhine's tournament and match games beginning with his early correspondence tournaments and finishing with Vienna 1922. The annotations, in languageless Chess Informant style, are by GM Alexander Khalifman and IMs Vladimir Ivanov and Segei Klimov amongst others and draw on Alekhine's own notes as well as more contemporary sources where relevant. The book has diagrams throughout, cross-tables for all the tournaments and indexes of openings and opponents. The three volume series, from Chess Stars publishing in Russia, will eventually contain over 1300 games. Pub. 2002, softback, 423 pages.
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This, the second of a three volume series, contains 485 of Alekhine's tournament and match games beginning with a trip to Margate in 1923 and ending with his win at Zurich 1934. It includes three world championship matches, visits to Scarborough and Birmingham in the U.K. and some of the strongest international tournaments of the time. The annotations, in languageless Chess Informant style, are by GM Alexander Khalifman and IMs Vladimir Ivanov and Sergei Klimov amongst others and draw on Alekhine's own notes as well as more contemporary sources where relevant. The book has diagrams throughout, cross-tables for all the tournaments and indexes of openings and opponents. Pub. 2002, softback, 494 pages.
A gripping account of Alekhine's last years, from 1943 to 1946, spent in Spain and Portugal. It is a tragic story of rapid decline into alcoholism and self destruction. Pablo Moran knew Alekhine at this time and draws on his own memories and those of his friends to provide an accurate description of this period in Alekhine's life. The book also includes 148 annotated games taken mostly from tournaments played in Spain in which Alekhine took part. A beautifully produced and well written book. Pub. 1989, hardback, 328 pages.
619 games from Alekhine's exhibitions, clock simuls, blinfold simuls and more from Europe and Asia 1905-1945. Many games have extensive annotations by Alekhine, Averbakh, Bogoljubow and others. Includes results, some photos and indexes of opponents and openings. Pub. 1993, softback, 118 pages.
Over 100 games from Alekhine's exhibition tours of the Americas in 1923-1929. Annotations by Alekhine, Botvinnik, Seirawan and others accompany many of the games. An excellent collection of non-tournament games from a brilliant player. Pub. 1992, softback, 47 pages.
This fresh look at the play of one of the most brilliant of all World Chess Champions takes the form of a puzzle book with the reader invited to find the winning continuation in several of Alekhine's games and then go on to solve diagrammed test positions taken from the play of this master of imagination. Includes 153 puzzles in all plus a brief biography of this controversial man. Each chapter highlights a different aspect of Alekhine's genius with full solutions to the puzzles provided at the end of the book. Pub. 2004, softback, 176 pages.
This extensively researched series tries to present as many as possible of Alekhine's tournament, consultation, simultaneous and blindfold games. Volume 1 contains extensive biographical material as well as 333 games. Much new biographical information has ome to light after research in Russia following the collapse of communism there. Pub. 1992, hardback, 187 pages.
Volume 2 of this exhaustively researched series contains 360 games and extensive background and biographical material. Many of the games have contemporary annotations and tournament cross tables are included. As before games are taken from tournament, consultation, simultaneous and blindfold play. Pub. 1996, hardback, 458 pages.
Volume 3 contains 297 games with annotations from Alekhine and his contemporaries. The world's major (and minor!) newspaper and periodical libraries have been scoured for information and games and as a result this book contains a large amount of hitherto unknown biographical and background information as recorded in contemporary sources. As usual the indexing and referencing is excellent. Also includes 14 pages of photographs on art paper. Pub. 1998, hardback, 494 pages.
Vishy Anand is India’s strongest ever player and challenged Kasparov for the World Championship in 1995. Here he presents his best games played between 1986 and 2000 in this expanded edition of his 1998 bestseller . All are annotated with explanation and anecdote as well as analysis. The way in which Anand explains the flow of the game, clearly and logically, is particularly impressive. He also relates the tournament situation in which each game was played and includes background material on his opponents. pub. 2001, softback, 336 pages.
Anderssen was one of the strongest and most attacking players of the nineteenth century. He played in both the "Evergreen" and "Immortal" games and won several strong tournaments. This volume features 897 games (only 94 draws!) and also includes 80 problems composed by Anderssen and a memorial essay. There are indexes of openings and opponents. Pub. 1996, softback, 394 pages.
Hungarian born Lajos Asztalos competed at a high level in the 1920s and 1930s (e.g. Bled 1931, Olympiad 1927) but remained an amateur player, languages teacher and guide to the next generation of Hungarian players. This book contains 57 of his best games together with a biographical sketch and memorable tournament record. Pub. 1998, softback, 47 pages, stapled.
Russian GM and endgame theoretician Yuri Averbakh was one of the Soviet Union's leading players for two decades competing in the USSR Championship and World Championship Candidates Tournament on several occasions. Here he annotates 60 of his favourite games played between 1943 and 1975 including clashes with most of the top GMs of that era. Pub. 1998, softback, 192 pages.
