He won the 1971 Alekhine Memorial in Moscow ( equal with Leonid Stein ), ahead of a star-studded field, for his first significant adult victory.

In November and December, Spassky finished the year by tying for sixth with Tal, scoring + 4 − 2 = 11, at the Alekhine Memorial in Moscow, which was won by Stein and Anatoly Karpov, the latter's first top-class success.

He won first prizes at very strong tournaments in St Petersburg ( 1895 – 96, Quadrangular ), Nuremberg ( 1896 ), London ( 1899 ), Paris ( 1900 ) and St Petersburg ( 1914 ), where he overcame a 1½ point deficit to finish ahead of the rising stars, Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine, who later became the next two World Champions.

In 1967, he was second to Fischer at Monte Carlo, won at Moscow and took second after Stein at the city's Alekhine Memorial tournament.

He won the 1938 AVRO tournament, which led to negotiations for a title match against champion Alexander Alekhine, but the match never took place due to World War II.

Fine placed 2nd at Hastings 1936-37 with 7. 5 / 9, as Alekhine won.

Since Alekhine won the title in 1927, he had been avoiding a rematch with his predecessor, Capablanca, whom many considered the strongest possible challenger.

Fine won both of his games against Alekhine.

Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov ( Bogoljubov, Bogoljubow ) April 14, 1889 – June 18, 1952 ) was a Russo-German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.

His victory against Alexander Alekhine at Karlsbad in 1923 won the brilliancy prize, while his win against Milan Vidmar at San Remo in 1930 was described by Alekhine as the finest game played since the war.

For instance, he split with Alekhine, won games against Réti and Savielly Tartakower, both of whom were Top 10 in the world at the time according to the estimated rankings of the website Chessmetrics. com, drew Capablanca and drew a famous game against Emanuel Lasker.

Ståhlberg came to fame when he won matches against star players Rudolf Spielmann and Aron Nimzowitsch in 1933 and 1934 respectively, and came third ( after Alekhine ) in Dresden 1936, and second ( after Fine ) in Stockholm 1937.

He won at Helsinki in 1936, and tied for first with Samuel Reshevsky and Salo Flohr at Kemeri in 1937, ahead of Alexander Alekhine, Paul Keres, Endre Steiner, Saviely Tartakower, Reuben Fine, Gideon Stahlberg and others.

In 1934, he tied for 6th-7th with Aron Nimzowitsch in Zürich ( Alekhine won ).

In 1925, he took tenth place in Baden-Baden ( Alexander Alekhine won ).

In one of Burn's last tournaments, he won as White against the young Alexander Alekhine:

During his career, he won games against grandmasters Reshevsky ( twice ), Fine, Frank Marshall, and Denker, and drew against world champion Alexander Alekhine.

He even won as Black against Alekhine at Berlin 1921:

Then, he tied for first with Alexander Alekhine at St. Petersburg 1913 / 14 ( the eighth All-Russian Masters ' Tournament ).

His most notable successes were first-place finishes at Copenhagen 1923, Marienbad 1925, Dresden 1926, Hanover 1926, the Carlsbad 1929 chess tournament, and second place behind Alekhine at the San Remo 1930 chess tournament.

He even beat Alekhine with the black pieces, in their short 1914 match at St. Petersburg.

While this extreme would almost never occur in practice, in game 11 of their 1927 world championship match, José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine each had two queens in play at once ( from move 65 through the end on move 66 ).

In October – November, Spassky finished second to Geller at the Alekhine Memorial in Moscow with a score of 10 points from fifteen games (+ 6 − 1 = 8 ).

Six months later he announced the establishment of a chess school under Bogoljubow and the World Chess Champion, Dr. Alexander Alekhine, and he visited a chess tournament in October 1942 at the " Literary Café " in Krakow.

For decades chess writers have reported that Tsar Nicholas II of Russia conferred the title of " Grandmaster of Chess " upon each of the five finalists at St Petersburg 1914 ( Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Tarrasch and Marshall ), but chess historian Edward Winter has questioned this, stating that the earliest known sources supporting this story were published in 1940 and 1942.

He continued his winning streak at Moscow's Alekhine Memorial in 1956, a victory shared with his constant rival, Botvinnik.

A winner at Amsterdam in 1971, he came third at The Alekhine Memorial ( Moscow ) the same year, after Karpov and Stein.

Keres ' first major international success against top-level competition came at Bad Nauheim 1936, where he tied for first with Alexander Alekhine at 6. 5 / 9 (+ 4 = 5 − 0 ).

3 − 0 ), then shared 1st – 2nd at Margate with Reuben Fine at 7. 5 / 9 (+ 6 = 3 − 0 ), 1. 5 points ahead of Alekhine.

Two outstanding international tournament victories were attained at Moscow 1967 ( commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution ), and Moscow 1971 ( Alekhine Memorial, equal with Anatoly Karpov ).

It gained popularity however, after Ernst Grünfeld introduced it into international play at Vienna 1922, where, in his first game with the defense, he defeated future world champion Alexander Alekhine.

During 1942 and 1943, Keres and Alekhine both played in four tournaments organized by Ehrhardt Post, a President of Nazi Grossdeutscher Schachbund.

While the greatest players of the time, among them Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca, clearly did not allow their play to be hobbled by blind adherence to general concepts that the center had to be controlled by pawns, that development had to happen in support of this control, that rooks always belong on open files, that wing openings were unsound — core ideas of Tarrasch's chess philosophy as popularly understood — beginners were taught to think of these generalizations as unalterable principles.

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The most common types of chess game collections are collected games of a single player ( e. g. My Best Games of Chess 1908-1937 by Alexander Alekhine ), annotations of games from a single tournament, collections of chess games covering a certain period of time ( e. g. Oxford Encyclopaedia of Chess Games.

Botvinnik was the first world-class player to develop within the Soviet Union ( Alekhine was a top player before the Russian Revolution ), putting him under political pressure but also giving him considerable influence within Soviet chess.

He also researched more esoteric subjects, resulting in works such as Alekhine Nazi Articles ( 2002 ) on articles in favour of the Nazi Party supposedly written by world chess champion Alexander Alekhine, and the bibliographies Fake Automata in Chess ( 1994 ) and Chess Columns: A List ( 2002 ).

In 1938 he tied with Fine for first, with 8. 5 / 14, in the all-star AVRO tournament, held in various cities in the Netherlands, ahead of chess legends Mikhail Botvinnik, Max Euwe, Reshevsky, Alekhine, Capablanca and Flohr.

Even in the early 1930s, he could nearly hold his own in blitz chess against the then world chess champion Alexander Alekhine, although Fine admitted that the few times he played blitz with Alekhine's predecessor José Raúl Capablanca, the latter beat him " mercilessly ".

Fine played in his first top-class international tournament at Pasadena 1932, where he shared 7-10th with 5 / 11 ; the winner was world chess champion Alexander Alekhine.

As Steinitz and Tarrasch developed chess theory and increased the appreciation of positional play, the Queen's Gambit grew more popular, reaching its zenith in the 1920s and 1930s, and was played in all but two of 34 games in the 1927 world championship match between José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine.

But he had negative scores against the world chess champions: Wilhelm Steinitz (+ 1 − 2 = 1 ), Emanuel Lasker (+ 1 − 4 = 2 ), José Raúl Capablanca (+ 0 − 3 = 5 ) and Alexander Alekhine (+ 0 − 6 = 5 ); except for Max Euwe whom he beat (+ 4 − 3 = 15 ).

He finished fourth in the very strong St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament, behind only World Champion Lasker and future World Champions José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine, and ahead of Marshall, Ossip Bernstein, Rubinstein, Nimzowitsch, Blackburne, Janowski, and Gunsberg.