Das Grossmeister-Turnier New York 1924 (Bibliothek Caissa)

by Aleksander Aljechin

The great 1924 New York chess tournament is remembered as one of the most brilliant tournaments of all time. The chess played in those games was remarkable, and for years players have studied these games and played them over and over.

Genres: Chess, Reference

377 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1925

Reviews

[Steven · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most famous chess tournaments ever with all 110 games - 72 of which were decisive - annotated by then participant and not yet, but future, Word Champion Alexander Alekhine. Alekhine was both a positional master and one of the greatest attacking players of all time. To have his contemporaneous and unfiltered analysis is priceless. He seems to have had an especial disdain for anti-positional moves, which is striking because this is also the tournament where Reti unleashed his "move of the future," one of the hallmarks of Hypermodernism.

[TrumanCoyote · Rating 5 out of 5]

Naturally I'm assuming that, given Al's often high-handed and preemptory tone, he's generally right in his pronouncements...although his judgments about openings do at times tend toward the silly. But anyway, a number of marvelous and instructive games, with an astonishing amount of Retis and Pircs (we even see Capablanca play 1...g6 at one point!).

[Cody Oldham · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful book! So many good and historic games which I hadn't been aware of the true source. Additionally with only having five games per round and the score round by round it was easy to follow each players progress in the tournament. Finally, Alekine's color and analysis helped the excitement and understanding of the games.

I also enjoyed the opening survey at the end especially considering developments over the last 100 years. For example 1. e4 g6 (?). Alekine calls it a joke opening, but there are many others. Now maybe it is time to try zurich again!

[JimGeary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Alekhin's analysis is still fresh and to the point almost a century later.

[Mike Koehler · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the classic American chess tournaments. Alexander Alekhine explores each game in detail.