batgirl wrote:
This took me by surprise . . .
"Remembering Alekhine I want to mention that his pictures do not reproduce his real masculine charms. I am convinced that if male chess players were awarded with prizes for handsomeness, then Alekhine would have shared the first and second place with Capablanca. "
- Andor Lilienthal
I was reading an article in the Russian chess magazine 64 called "The Last of the Chess Mohicans" in which Lilienthal, on his 95th birthday reminisces about his chess career and the people he knew and came across his surprising appraisal of Alekhine.
. . .go figure.
Capablanca gets my wife's vote and she says Spassky is a close second but she didnt mention Alekhine.
This took me by surprise . . .
"Remembering Alekhine I want to mention that his pictures do not reproduce his real masculine charms. I am convinced that if male chess players were awarded with prizes for handsomeness, then Alekhine would have shared the first and second place with Capablanca. "
- Andor Lilienthal
I was reading an article in the Russian chess magazine 64 called "The Last of the Chess Mohicans" in which Lilienthal, on his 95th birthday reminisces about his chess career and the people he knew and came across his surprising appraisal of Alekhine.
. . .go figure.