My Best Games of Chess, 1908 - 1937 (Paperback)

by Alexander Alekhine (Author)

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Product Description
One of chess’s great inventive geniuses presents his 220 best games, with fascinating personal accounts of the dazzling victories that made him a legend. Includes historic matches against Capablanca, Euwe, and Bogoljubov. Alekhine’s penetrating commentary on strategy, tactics—and a revealing memoir. Numerous diagrams. Approx.

Product Details

• Paperback: 581 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (October 1, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486249417
• ISBN-13: 978-0486249414
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #459,570 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars There is nothing better, August 2, 2003

By A Customer

Look. This is plain and simple. There is not a collection of better annotated games out there, and for this price, how could you not buy it! The annotations will instruct you just as well as any middlegame book, and if you ask 10 masters if they think this is a good book, all 10 will say yes.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars There are Certain Books the Serious Player Just Must Read:, December 10, 1999

By	Michael Story "math professor, consumer of media" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is on of those books. Like My Sixty Memorable Games or My System, you just won't be able really to understand this game until you read it. Bottvinik thought that the study of Alekhine's (and Capablanca's) games should make up the backbone of one's chess learning. Yet don't think of this book as a mere obligatory read. The games are enchanting: You will find reading this book demanding, but you will also find it fun! The author of this book is one of the four or five greatest players of all time and it shows! His games, esp. those against Reti at Baden Baden, Rabinovich, and Nimzowitch, rank as some of the greatest ever played.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for middle-game improvement, July 8, 1999

By A Customer

Alekhine was not just the strongest player of his era, but also a gifted writer. In this book, strategic themes like weak squares, pawn structures etc.. are expressed in simple plain language for the uninitiated. Guaranteed to improve one's understanding of the middle-game.

This volume is also priced reasonably, as with most Dover Chess books anyway.....