Studying games of the old school Masters post #01 - Alekhine profile overview

Welcome to this lil' blog, current version : 1.01 / 2012-12-16 
Current status : WAITING!!! Study material is on the way!

Introduction : What? Is this not just another standard post on your blog?
Half and half. Draw the conclusion you want. I am not a master, this is a hobby, not a career. I've returned to chess after a two decade hiatus. Passionate about litterature, this is just second nature to me to start bogging since Chess.dot offers the opportunity. In this series the posts will be centered around past masters, meaning they must have passed away. This first edition will be about an old master most will be familiar with at this point (if they are reading blogs on Chess dot com).  This is a version 1.01 blogpost, more analysis will be complementing this basic version. Preparation means writing down what will be studied and the enthusiam to share this post with the readers was why the current prelude started being penned. The updates will not be frequent on the posts, each one being about a chess player worth studying. Not going in chronological order, not doing any favoritism, just Grand Masters who no matter the time when we happen to be focusing on chess, their names will be on our path. So keep in mind that those are words that might not help you get better at chess! This is just the start of my deeper study into the strategies of chess. This preamble will be morphed into a separate version 0 post about the goals of the series. Consider this an ongoing project, not having much tangible objectives. Chess has many facets. The passion of the sport it has become (2022 speed championships!). The love for the ART chess always has found its way. The game families and friends can enjoy is the simpler side of chess. The science that we can study hsa no boundaries, see the 4000 rating StockFish games of 2022. Those are all motivations to write about chess and talk about it on youtube and twitch with new generations. Here you will find a brief overview of many legends, many of whom I had not heard about 20 years ago. I'm not sure about what I will be able to share with anyone reading this, but please be happy and don't send hate, just let this aside if it's not your thing, you have much to look forward to otherwise anyways in the future. Sharing about the past is what I do, it's the way to preserve it for the next generation of fans of the hobby. I'm just doing my part. #ChessShip Troopers

Enjoy the tales of my discovery of the legacy of Alexander Alekhine. There is but a skeleton of the study of some of my favorite openings present in the article as of today, come back to read more comments once I have time to study his work. Everything will be in the comment section to keep a tab on what was updated since you last browsed the post. Current status : WAITING!!! Study material is on the way : Ordered a book in russian about his 1924-1927 New York tournaments. I understand that many would tell me to use the Chess database on here - which the attentive reader will know I'm already using from the screenshot used in the montages - but books are my preffered source of information for hobbies. If you check the sources at the end of the blogpost, you will see the tournament data that could be relevant. There will be many past masters you might be fans of in the opposition at those storied tournaments! (And you thought the Pawn Sacrifice rendition was tense... imagine learning russian while starting a chess book collection! Totally hyped.  Will be worth it to be readig some russian masters's games in their mother tongue.) 
Remember to be patient with my updates, and pardon my peculiar grammar: english is a second language. Ending this preamble will be my sincere thanks for all enthusiasts or wayward websurfers reading, you should find these verbiage wall of texts in separate posts soon enough! Thanks to all the amazing Grand Masters of years past who fueled the flame of the science that is chess! As would thankfully greet them my nippon sensei, I say : Arigatou Gozaimasu Grand masters Alekhine, Tartakower, Capablanca and others.... Rest in peace ! To the living, see you in the twin sister series of "living legends", Grand masters Karpov, Spasski, Kasparov... 

Onwards to Actual CHESS content! Anthropology!!!

Studying games of the old school Masters post #01 - Alekhine

Chess.com's game statistics for Alekhine : Profile and stats

Chess.com's historic of games for Alekhine : Whites

Chess.com's historic of games for Alekhine : Solids facing 1. Nf3

Thanks for reading this blog! Best wishes for the holidays season!

post #01 - version 1.01 content : 1.0 - intro, 1.01 - Grand Master's profile overview

Credits, Bibliography, Sources, Other references [work in progress] :

CREDITS FOR IMAGES : from the linked pages of Chess.com's various databases.
Screenshots, editing and captions done by myself.

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