A. Alekhine - Agony of a Chess Genius - by Pablo Moran

Publisher: McFarland, 2010
Edition: Paperback medium
ISBN: 978-0-7864-5981-0
Pages: 328
Language: English

The tragic last years of world chess champion Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946), 45 of his match and tournament games in Spain and Portugal from 1943 to 1946, and 100 other late exhibition games are covered.

A definitive biographical sketch emerges of Alekhine in his final phase, covering his marriages, alcoholism and murky involvement with the Nazis.

Pablo Moran, of Oviedo, Spain, is an international arbiter, a national master and author of seven other chess books. Frank X. Mur is a Spanish translator and interpreter living in Oakland, California.

Dale A. Brandreth lives in Yorklyn, Delaware, and is a well known publisher and distributor of chess books.

British Chess Magazine:
"Fine prose(..) a good solid account"

Edward Winter:
"Vastly superior to [the competition]."

Chess Mail:
"detailed...recommended!"

Le Courrier des Echecs:
"certainly the most complete biography that exists!"

Chess:
"a fine biographical account...full of games from Alekhine’s final years which have eluded the mainstream. One of the most remarkable chess books of the last few years"