Nice analysis. I like how you focus on Black's mistakes leading to his downfall, rather than simply gushing over how Alekhine simply played another amazing game. I forgot who said it, but one of the early masters once said the winner in a game of chess is the second to last person to make a mistake.
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Yeah. The inferior players are still masters of course and their mistakes and inaccuricies are few and subtle, which Alekhine could take advantage of. Also black was playing some risky chess by weakneing his kingside and not getting his pieces out for castling so the slightest mistake could get the player's king caught in the center like here. ...Ne5 was probably slightly inaccurate too because of white's reply. Better was ...a6 which is often played.
I always liked Alekhine's style. He is known to be one of the best calculators and attackers and chess but this was all backed up by his solid positional understanding. He had the positional strength of Capablanca and once he got an advantage he could convert it with incredible skill usually in the form of a mating attack. In this game Alekhine uses the Ponziani opening which I thought was just inferior but in this game I saw some very interesting ideas in it, one of which was an early queen move. So here is the game.