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Was Alekhine assassinated?
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"Should I block Marco"? No, that's just his way of having fun. He makes good movies. Marco don't get too carried away.....Marco?....where d'he go?
Why block Marco? His comments keep getting deleted by random people.
And the're all using the same color ink
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Yeah, I think I have to agree with her Marco.
BISHOP_e3 wrote:
In addition to playing chess, didn't Alekhine run a battery factory?
No, you're thinking of Al Kaline of the Detroit Tigers.
One the saddest scene is Alekhine died in his hotel, if it was murder,all I can say that is
horrible. His one my favorite grandmaster and world champion, contribute a lot to chess.
I think you are all overlooking the obvious. Look at the position set up on his chess board!
What? You say? Game starting position... what of it?
My theory is that he had been analyzing all possible outcomes of that position, for both white and black, and on that VERY EVENING he finally solved it! With the game of chess finally solved, he had nothing left to live for... and promptly died.
Elementary, my dear watson! 
Jul 4, 2016
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Little-Charles wrote:
It makes little sense for the Soviets to assassinate Alekhine, who was past his prime and would have been a huge underdog to Botvinnik. It was Botvinnik who built the Soviet system of chess training; the propaganda value wasn't so much in the '40s.
Look at Post #21 on Page 2
Little-Charles wrote:
It makes little sense for the Soviets to assassinate Alekhine, who was past his prime and would have been a huge underdog to Botvinnik. It was Botvinnik who built the Soviet system of chess training; the propaganda value wasn't so much in the '40s.
you cannot reason with someone who has lost their mind.
Little-Charles wrote:
Bawker wrote:
I think you are all overlooking the obvious. Look at the position set up on his chess board!
What? You say? Game starting position... what of it?
My theory is that he had been analyzing all possible outcomes of that position, for both white and black, and on that VERY EVENING he finally solved it! With the game of chess finally solved, he had nothing left to live for... and promptly died.
Elementary, my dear watson!
There is an old short story about Capablanca & Alekhine on the same train for a long trip. They hadn't spoken in years, but Capa sought out his rival in an excited state: he had played a few games against a stranger on the train who had beaten him easily every time! He asked Alekhine to play the man to see if he were really that good.
Alekhine was also wiped out by the stranger, who bragged he had found the secret to chess. He returned to Capa and they agreed it must be true.
The story was written as told by Capablanca to a fan years later. The fan doubted the account, asking why he had never heard of this perfect player. Capa replied, "Well, we had to kill him, of course!"
Time traveling engine user no doubt.
Jul 31, 2016
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It is a joke, and anyway you were shooting at someone who was already dead, in a matter of speaking, and was not his fault. Junk.
Fake
Why would the French or the Soviets want to assassinate Alekhine? It doesn't make any sense at all. The French had had their own share of collaboration with the Nazis, and the chess world was full of collaborators (real and imagined) who survived the war. If he was due to travel to England, they could have just waited and arrested and tried him as soon as he stepped off the boat, but I somehow doubt his misdeeds were considered sufficiently serious for that. As for the Soviets, they had no reason to snuff him. Botvinnik would have wiped the floor with a man who hadn't exactly lived like an ascetic in the last 15 or so years of his life, and whose results had noticeably declined in his last couple of years. It's highly likely that his ticker simply gave out, and sure, that could just as easily have happened in the street, as in his hotel room after he had had his dinner. Probably a lot less administrative hassle for everyone involved if the death was registered as having happened in a hotel room rather than in the street.
Don't eat big chunks of steak.