Alexander Alekhin. Kotov A.A.

130 years ago, Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhin was born, the great chess player, the first Russian champion of the world, whom many experts in the ancient game consider the strongest grandmaster of “all time and peoples” he treated chess as art - and was his loyal minister, a bright thinker, And not just a player. Alekhin stands at the origins of the Soviet chess school. But since 1921, he lived in a foreign land, where he became the winner of many prestigious chess tournaments and won the crown of the world champion, confirming this high rank three more. He died in 1946 to the undefeated. The narrative of the grandmaster A. A. Kotov about Alexander Alekhine remains unsurpassed. We supplemented it with a modern outline of the life and work of the great chess player, which states what the author who wrote his masterpiece in 1965 involuntarily silent about what the author was involuntarily silent.