In general, she was very concerned about anything that could help to honour Alekhine, especially in a social context. She was always quiet and self-controlled. She came from a wealthy family, had obviously been well brought up, had cultivated manners and spoke German, French and English as well as her native Russian. [But her almost ridiculous appearance was in stark contrast to her valuable qualities. ' stood out because of her clothes and her heavy war paint, but even more because of all the artificial jewellery with which she was overloaded. In the essay 'Aljechin und sein Glück' (Alekhine and his luck'), which appeared in the Deutsche Schachzeitung in September 1971, the Austrian master, arbiter and author Hans Kmoch, who finished 11th to 12th in San Remo with 6.5 out of 15, gossiped about Alekhine's preference for older women and alcohol, although he described Nadasha, who was 19 years older than Alekhine, as cultured and educated. Like Alekhine's later fourth and final wife, Grace Wishaar, and his first two wives, Nadasha was older than Alekhine.

His third wife, Nadasha Vasilyev, an admiral's widow whom he had met in 1925 and married in 1927, probably played a large part in Alekhine's successes during these years.

The matches against Capablanca and Bogolyubov had brought him handsome prize money and as world champion he was able to live very well from the fees he received for playing simultaneous events and from his articles and books. Alekhine also had no financial worries in the early 1930s. Alekhine avoided a rematch with Capablanca. However, this dissertation was never found and in all probability Alekhine was wrongly awarded the doctorate he liked to adorn himself with.įrom September to November 1929 Alekhine defended his World Championship title in a match against Efim Bogoljubow with a clear 15.5-9.5 (+11, =9, -5) victory. In Paris he studied law at the Sorbonne, where, according to his own account, he submitted a doctoral thesis on 'The Prison System in China' in 1925. Alekhine was born on 31 October 1892 in Moscow to a wealthy Russian family, but fled the newly founded Soviet Union in 1921 to settle in Paris after a brief stopover in Berlin. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > The ultimate chess experience every day, Pla圜 welcomes 20,000 chess players from all around the world – from beginner to grandmaster.ġ927 was a good year for Alexander Alekhine: with a surprising victory in the world championship match in Buenos Aires against José Raúl Capablanca, Alekhine became the fourth world champion in chess history and in the same year, Alekhine was also granted French citizenship, which he had already applied for in 1924.Memorize it easily move by move by playing against the variation trainer. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Learn openings the right way! Build and maintain your repertoire.Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Real Fun against a Chess Program! Play, analyze and train online against Fritz.Top authors like Daniel King, Lawrence Trent and Rustam Kasimdzhanov Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Thousands of hours of high class video training.Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Sac, sac, mate! Solve tactical positions of your playing strength.

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