@@bilyonarelifestile2226 haha despite my name and being a Dostoyevsky fan, I actually am American. So I'm not familiar with the Russian/ Baltic pronunciation
Joking aside, as a chess amateur, (at age 43)I spent a year analyzing Alekhine games deeply, and in my next two encounters with GMs classical OTB, I won both games. So, it is definitely worth it to learn from one of the Greatest. P.S. I am just a CM who has less than 150 classical games played up to now, since I play rarely
According to an interview with Jan Timman, Max Euwe's team paid for the hotel where the games were played to have an open bar so Alekhine had access to free drinks the whole time.
@dordiwesterlund2528 Perpetual chess podcast ep 336 19-21 mins. "You must take into account he had carte blanche in the Carlton Hotel, very clever move by the Euwe committee" -Jan Timman
I gotta say, I assumed that "Dewhirst" was a joke that Ben had deliberately inserted into the PGN to see if anyone noticed. But no, it really is his name. (It'll be pronounced JEW-herst, like the town of Dewsbury close to where he was born but...)
Tbf to Alekhine, if him, Lasker, and Capablanca were all playing in a tournament together, you weren't betting on Capablanca either. Lasker won almost every tournament he was in and never finished behind Capa until it was the mid 1930s. Lasker obviously lost the match badly in the Havana heat, but Lasker is really underappreciated
Actually the reason why we never saw another Capablanca-Alekhine match was that when sending him the rematch offer, Capablanca incautiously demanded a change in the conditions of the London Agreement(for the match) and Alekhine found formal grounds to reject the offer. When Capablanca again sent him without a change in conditions, it was too late as Alekhine received a challenge from Efim Bogolujobow.
@@zyaffee He wasn't nazi, he was nazi collaborate on occupied territory. He has never shown any nazi attitude before he was there, but quite opposite having and helping jewish friends etc. Although it's not good, it's easy to judge from safety of your home, most people on occupied territories were in such position in some way. I doubt you or any person judging him would act any better have you been put in his position, and would nobly die for your views.
I also have a tough time believing Alekhine stopped drinking for just the match because he would have been feeling...really not well going through the withdrawal for the first several rounds. I am playing poorly just because of cigarette withdrawal and i cannot imagine having to play WORLD CLASS chess with alcohol withdrawal
There are no photographs of Alekhine smoking during the second match but there are in the first. Also his play was much improved so he must have cut back even if he hadn't given it up completely. Some biographies claim that Euwe offered to postpone some of the first match games because Alekhine was obviously intoxicated. The subsequent poor play is nowhere to be seen in the second match which Alekhine won easily.
@@jameshogan6142 do buy that he cut back. When I was a kid our family friend who I still see sometimes today was a guy who was a full-blown alcoholic like Alekhine This guy drank a lot less at times, but when he did cut down he would drink when he first woke up, and a little bit at meals, to make sure he didn't get the shakes or anything like that
The Soviet Union wasn't what it was later cracked up to be in 1925. Bogolubov, like Larsen after him, and Janowski before him, was a terror to lesser lights, but didn't perform well against the best of the best, which is why he could never have been world champion.
I Think there was selective memory with the Capablanca vs Alekhine match. Did not Capablanca set any challege match with stipulation that were e tremey hard to aquire? Prize money had to be found by the challegenger etc) just like Lasker did to Capablanca. I do believe I read Alekhine tried once before to meet Capablanca's stipulations and Capablanca rejected it. the prize money found by Alekhine (through a doner) when Capablanca agreed to the match Alekhine was considered an inferior opponent (so calling out Alekhine for taking on inferior opponets is being hypocritical when it comes to the facts Alekhine didn't steal the match..He beat Capablanca 6-3 That is hardly swindling Capablanca. If Alekhine was such a weak player, how did that happen? Last, Alekhine after did not run from Capablanca after. HE Gave Capablanca the same match stipulations as Capablanca gave him. Capablanca could not raise the funds. This is all known. KARMA came back on Capablanca, refusing to play for the title, hiding behind extremely hard to meet stipulations. .. a challenger (who he thought he could beat... came up with the prize money and agreed to terms) Then disaster happens, he lost and spent the rest of his career career try to amass the fund's need for a re- match
Also the reason why he "wrote" anti-semetic papers was because his wife, Grace Wishart being an American during WW2 in france(occupied by germany) was threatened with arrest. In an effort to save his wife, he "wrote" anti semetic papers(he didn't write them, his name was used to write it).
Don't mind this piece of 💩He dares to disrespect Alekhine, he is barely a GM 2400, he lost all the tournaments last year and also 2021. How can you even take him seriously?
Chessbase names the city twice because the tournament is called "London" and it was played in London. So by analogy with, e.g., "Tata Steel, Wijk aan Zee", this is "London, London". Technically, the PGN header has entries [Event "London"] and [Site "London, UK"]. I suppose Chessbase could omit one of them if they're the same.
I read somewhere that Capablanca did the same to Alekhine. Once you became a world champion, you could dictate the terms of the next match. I also read that Capa was never the same after he lost his title to Alekhine.
10:19 One has to say that "Bogoljubov" means "beloved by God" in Russian, so his famous saying is actually more of a silly pun that how it sounds in English today :)
During Magnus's 125-game unbeaten streak (mostly against super-GMs) he won 42 games with 83 draws -- an INSANELY high win rate of 34%. So pull up your skirt, Ben. Your bias is showing.
Bogolyubow was a great player although he was weaker than Capablanca, Emmanuel Lasker and Alekhine, and probably Max Euwe as well. If you look up Bogolyubow on chessmetrics, he was ranked number 2, 3 or 4 at various times during his chess career. He was ranked number 1 for a short time in 1927. He was a fairly easy opponent for Alekhine though, much easier than Capablanca. Bogolyubow was on the level with Nimzovich, Reti, Rubinstein and Frank Marshall. He was no joke. Chessmetrics has him at 2768 at his peak in 1927.
OK, raise your hand if you thought "Dewhirst" was a joke that Ben inserted into the PGN to see if anyone noticed... Turns out it's real, though it's not pronounced "de worst". It'd be JOO-herst: most British accents pronounce dew like "Jew", rather than as "doo" or "dyoo". Yates was actually born near the town of Dewsbury in Yorkshire -- JOOZ-b'ry.
Alekhine losing the title because he drank too much is just one of those chess excuses. People who knew him thought that Alekhine drank no more in 1935 than he had at any other time. Euwe himself, in Chess Life & Review in 1978 said that people thought Alekhine was drunk even when he wasn't, because he didn't like to wear his glasses, and his walk was unsteady without them.
The truth is just that Alekhine badly underestimated Euwe. Euwe was much in demand as a match opponent in those days because he always drew or lost. But somewhere along the line, Euwe improved without anyone noticing. Euwe's results were actually superior to Alekhine's all through his title reign. Alekhine, meanwhile, didn't take the match seriously, and was only there for the paycheck. When he took the 3 point lead, he must have really figured that this was over, and went on automatic pilot until it was too late.
Alekhine remained my favourite player untill i learn his end carrer which is less glorious (as my eternal hero not only of teenager :Indiana Jones who face the evil with Nice moustache and beat him!!!go indy!!)
@ 4:51 : "So eey um the official cause of death is he choked on a piece of meat ... so ... all right then i could make some South Park jokes.,,,," Stop Right There !!! MR , that was your perfect Segway to just say to the chess world : "so just {Go Vegan}!! , so you don't also end up choking on a piece of meat , like he did !!!" .
I was looking forward to hearing some new information on my favourite chess player but I quickly realised that I knew more about Alekhine than the so called expert. I only want to listen to people that really are an authority on the subject..
I Think there was selective memory with the Capablanca vs Alekhine match. Did not Capablanca set any challege match with stipulation that were e tremey hard to aquire? Prize money had to be found by the challegenger etc) just like Lasker did to Capablanca. I do believe I read Alekhine tried once before to meet Capablanca's stipulations and Capablanca rejected it. the prize money found by Alekhine (through a doner) when Capablanca agreed to the match Alekhine was considered an inferior opponent (so calling out Alekhine for taking on inferior opponets is being hypocritical when it comes to the facts Alekhine didn't steal the match..He beat Capablanca 6-3 That is hardly swindling Capablanca. If Alekhine was such a weak player, how did that happen? Last, Alekhine after did not run from Capablanca after. HE Gave Capablanca the same match stipulations as Capablanca gave him. Capablanca could not raise the funds. This is all known. KARMA came back on Capablanca, refusing to play for the title, hiding behind extremely hard to meet stipulations. .. a challenger (who he thought he could beat... came up with the prize money and agreed to terms) Then disaster happens, he lost and spent the rest of his career career try to amass the fund's need for a re- match
