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Alekhine's Anguish: A Novel of the Chess World

Alekhine's Anguish: A Novel of the Chess World

Yaffe, Charles D.

Paperback

Sports GeneralChessRussian History

ISBN10: 078640695X
ISBN13: 9780786406951
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Sep 15 1999
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.16 Depth: 7.82
Language: English

This is a fictionalized account of the life and career of world chess champion Alexander Alekhine. Born into Russian nobility, Alekhine lost his family and nearly his life to the Bolsheviks before becoming the world's most powerful chess player. The coming of World War II placed the grandmaster in a difficult position, forcing him to collaborate with the Nazis and to produce anti-Semitic materials. Desperate to win back his credibility after the war, Alekhine was preparing for a redemptive title match at the time of his sudden death. Alekhine's life was marked by alcoholism, fits of depression, scandalous affairs, marriages of convenience, painful compromises, and his battle to become the Greatest.

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