After defeating Euwe in 1937, Alekhine was invited by Fide President Reub to play a match for the title against official FIDE challenger, Salo Flohr. Initially, Alekhine declined invitation; precisely during those years the new…
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Alekhine – Euwe World Championship Rematch 1937
According to the regulations of the 1935 World Chess Championship match, in the event of Alekhine losing the title, he was granted the right to return match. Soon after the match has ended, Alekhine challenged…
Alekhine – Euwe World Championship Match 1935
Max Euwe, born at a dawn of the 20th century in Amsterdam, started competing in the international tournament only in the 1920s. Although he didn’t play chess professionally, pursuing mathematical studies all along, his talent…
Alekhine – Bogoljubow World Championship 1934
On 12th November 1929, one day after the finish of Alekhine – Bogoljubow 1929 World Championship match, the former champion Jose Raul Capablanca sent a letter to Alekhine in which he informed him he „confirmed…
Alekhine – Bogoljubow World Championship Match 1929
Already in Buenos Aires, immediately after their World Championship match in 1927, Alekhine and Capablanca met to discuss the conditions regarding the potential Alekhine – Capablanca rematch. According to Kasparov (Garry Kasparov On My Great…
Alekhine – Capablanca World Championship Match 1927
After Capablanca’s victory against Lasker in 1921, the latter claim he will no longer participate in World Championship matches. The first player to challenge Capablanca, immediately in 1921, was Akiba Rubinstein, the Polish champion and…
Greatest chess players of all time
Greatest chess players of all time? In Animal Farm, George Orwell has written an immortal sentence: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others In the history of chess, there were…
Lasker – Capablanca World Championship Match 1921
November 19, 1888, is one of the most important dates in chess history. On this day, one of the greatest natural talents, the Cuban genius Jose Raul Capablanca, was born. Capablanca was a prodigy in…
Lasker – Janowsky World Championship match 1910
You might recall that in 1899, David Janowsky, one of the leading masters of the late 1890s and early 1900s, issued a formal challenge to Lasker. Due to the disagreement regarding the number of games…
Lasker – Schlechter World Championship Match 1910
After his successful title defence against Tarrasch in 1908, Lasker could not rest on his laurels. The list of challengers waiting for their turn was growing every day. On December 2, 1908, Austrian master Karl…
Lasker – Tarrasch World Championship Match 1908
In 1907, a strong chess tournament in Ostend. Since Lasker was playing his match against Marshall, he was absent. The organizers declared that they would do everything in their might to organize a match between…
Lasker – Marshall World Championship Match 1907
After his successful title defence in match against Steinitz in 1896, chess world would have to wait for long 11 years for another World Championship match. First of all, in 1896, Lasker opted to take…