And even a lot of alcohol. Yes, I looked part of life disputes fourth world championship - Alexander Alexandrovich Alechina .
wealthy landowner's son, sybarite, connoisseur of brandy, but also a very miserable and cruel modes involved in the history of the man who still managed to go down in history as a chess genius.
Other Alechina face: a great lover of cats. certainly played dozens of important parties after a few deeper. In 1935
year there was already no doubt about that: Alechin has an alcohol problem. Unfortunately for him it was just the year that was scheduled for another match for the world title and became Alechin to him as a defender of the title. In the fight against Max Euwe
, Dutch chess contender for the crown, sat firmly inserted into the game. Drinks spikes seriously weakened condition of his match point. After a quick exit for running and solid play in the middle of the game exhausted Russians lost four of their last ten lots, noting at the finish only one victory, which just put aside the loss of title.
After the grant, in an informal circle Alechin alcoholism began to painstakingly reconstruct the shape. For the year threw up smoking and all forms of ethanol. Accept only
milk and
chess bulletins with the latest installments Euwego that continuously analyze, awaiting a rematch. He did not have to wait long. Dutch champion, known for his impeccable manners, he suggested his opponent najgroźniejszemu duel again just two years after the first encounter.
Score: 10 wins, 11 draws and 4 defeats, of course, for the benefit of Alechina.
"Bourbon fills me up, I can not play" train into the glass every time it's ridiculous to have had this terrible situation. Alechin One day, returning to the ballet with his friend and rival Bogolubowem, came up with the diabolical idea. Knowing the weak nerves of another of his great przecwników -
Rubinstein, along with a companion knocked on the door Polish grandmaster, posing as a Russian officer. Terrified Akiba
left the hotel through a window the next day no longer appear on the tournament hall. Another time, inserted after the maestro was trying to perform a short castling too long, using tower and the Queen. His baffled opponent protested, which apparently sobered zawianego Russian, because after the forced movement of the tower has rapidly affected shrift to the competitor.
Usually, however was not so happy. Alechin had the misfortune to live in the times of the two great wars. The first ended with him a wound, which is related to the medical corps and the tsarist miraculous salvation from the hands of Cheka shortly after the success of the October Revolution. After the outbreak of the
stood to fight in defense of his adopted country - France would later, as a prisoner, be forced to play "in the colors "of the Third Reich. Under the threat of losing not only freedom but also of life, the Russian signed with his name in a series of anti-Semitic articles, titled" The Aryan superiority over the Jewish Chess ".
one moment became a persona non grata among the chess figures in Europe. forgotten, that at the outbreak of the war as captain of the French team's first chess
refused to join the game with Germany at the Olympics in Buenos Aires. forgotten that the wealth and looted by the Nazis persecuted Sasha had to make a living while protecting divides with the fate of his wife. The bad fame of the world Alechinie gone so far that today few people know what was the last reading in his life. And it was a
anynazistowski pamphlet, "Selected breeds" by Margaret Sother.
Sixty-three years after the death Alechina we still pay him honor.
Founded by FIDE master the tombstone of Paris Montparnasse.