| Utgivelsesdato | 2025 |
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| Pris | 490 NOK |
Chess Villain
Forlagets egen omtale
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.
Innhold
001 Introduction
003 1.Prologue
005 2.Early Years
011 3.Chess at the Top
0164.St. Petersburg
0235.Mannheim
0266.The Great War
0297.Revolution
0348.Comrade Alekhine
0409.The West
045 10.Paris
048 11.London 1922
053 12.Waiting for Capablanca
057 13.New York 1924
063 14.Doctor Alekhine
069 15.The Challenge
073 16.Euwe
076 17.New York 1927
082 18.Buenos Aires
089 19.The Breakthrough
094 20.The Rift
101 21.The Feud
106 22.Top of the World
113 23.Treading Water
117 24.An Unwilling Challenger
122 25.Hubris Strikes
128 26.Ex-Champion
133 27.Chess and Politics
137 28.Euwe Again
145 29.AVRO 1938
151 30.War in Europe
156 31.Occupation
162 32.Looking for an Exit
165 33.Nazi Chess
170 34.Champion of Occupied Europe
175 35.Sojourn in Spain
182 36.Ostracized
187 37.A Challenge from the East
191 38.Conspiracy Theories
195 39.A Vacant Throne
200 40.Legacy
205 Richard Réti vs. Alexander Alekhine Baden-Baden 1925
207 Chapter Notes
221 Bibliography
223 Index
003 1.Prologue
005 2.Early Years
011 3.Chess at the Top
0164.St. Petersburg
0235.Mannheim
0266.The Great War
0297.Revolution
0348.Comrade Alekhine
0409.The West
045 10.Paris
048 11.London 1922
053 12.Waiting for Capablanca
057 13.New York 1924
063 14.Doctor Alekhine
069 15.The Challenge
073 16.Euwe
076 17.New York 1927
082 18.Buenos Aires
089 19.The Breakthrough
094 20.The Rift
101 21.The Feud
106 22.Top of the World
113 23.Treading Water
117 24.An Unwilling Challenger
122 25.Hubris Strikes
128 26.Ex-Champion
133 27.Chess and Politics
137 28.Euwe Again
145 29.AVRO 1938
151 30.War in Europe
156 31.Occupation
162 32.Looking for an Exit
165 33.Nazi Chess
170 34.Champion of Occupied Europe
175 35.Sojourn in Spain
182 36.Ostracized
187 37.A Challenge from the East
191 38.Conspiracy Theories
195 39.A Vacant Throne
200 40.Legacy
205 Richard Réti vs. Alexander Alekhine Baden-Baden 1925
207 Chapter Notes
221 Bibliography
223 Index
| Innbundet? | Nei |
| Type | Bok |
| Språk | Engelsk |
| Antall sider | 235 |