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From the Introduction: A. Alekhine: Agony of a Chess Genius tries to encompass his last period, from October 1943 to March 1946. The Second World War made this a tragic period in world history. And the games which the world champion played in Spain are little known; they were either never published or appeared in short-lived dailies and magazines. Of course they are not his best creations. They could not be, although the spark of genius gleams in all of them. They could not be, since he was ill, prematurely old and ruined. But they were his most tragic chess battles.

The drama of this genius can be glimpsed in his reply to the journalist and chessplayer Juan Fernandez Rua in July 1944: "Plans? What plans can I have? The best part of my life has passed away between two world wars that have laid Europe waste. Both wars ruined me, with this difference: at the end of the first war I was 26 years of age, with an unbounded enthusiasm I no longer have. If, sometime, I write my memoirs--which is very possible--people will realize that chess has been a minor factor in my life. It gave me the opportunity to further an ambition and at the same time convince me of the futility of the ambition. Today, I continue to play chess because it occupies my mind and keeps me from brooding and remembering."

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  • Author: Moran
  • Book Type: Hardback, 1989
  • Notation: Algebraic Notation
  • Pages: 314
  • NOTE: 45 of the 63 match and tournament games from the above mentioned period in Spain and Portugal. The remaining eighteen games were impossible to obtain.
 


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