Was Alekhine assassinated?
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Alexandre Alekhine was, for certain, the last World Chess Champion who never saw a computer playing the game of chess.
His life marks the end of an era.
He choked to death on a piece of meat.
...but he hadda glassa watta near his table.
the French resistance had murdered many, many other Nazi collaborators, even years after the Second World War. On their list of potential candidates were 200,000 nazi collaborators on whom they wanted to take revenge, because the Nazis simply killed too many of their friends for forgiveness to be possible.
And yes, when someone was killed in Portugal in this way, it always followed exactly the same pattern as with Alekhine, namely the murder was covered up because Portugal did not want any political complications. So, you have to understand that Alekhine was just one of many, and that in almost all cases it was covered up just like in the Alekhine case!
I am German and I can understand these people of the French resistance...
After the death, France claimed the coffin, that went to Paris in 1956.