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DoctorMove wrote:
Great tournament with so many legendary games.
There is no doubt that Alekhine's book of the New York 1924 tournament is one of the magisterial works of chess literature. There is so much drama in his writing, and so much to learn from and be inspired by his analysis. What a book!
Below are the cover (Dover Edition) and page 56 with some of the notes on Reti's win over Capablanca in the 5th round (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1102101) . This was Capablanca's first loss in an important tournament game in about 8 years (as Black to Chajes at the 1916 Rice Memorial in New York (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1264556).
I would like to know if Alekhine's book of the 1924 tournament is still in print. Reti's game against Capablanca was my favourite game because Capa's black Queen got "stuck in the mud"
The players in the photo of the1924 tournament are below.
International Chess Master Tournament. From left to right - Standing: Frank Marshall, Savielly Tartakower, Géza Maróczy, Alexander Alekhine, Richard Réti, Efim Bogoljubow Sitting: Frederick Yates, José Raúl Capablanca, Dawid Janowski, Edward Lasker, Emanuel Lasker. New York, 1924
My father told me stories of the amazing wizardry of games played by Frank Marshall. If you study some of his early games you can see his dominance of chess at the time...... and he only finished fourth in this tournament.
Emanual Lasker must have been a giant among giants in the chess world at the time.