Was Alekhine assassinated?

Dont type cia on a forum dumdum?!

Somebody in Washington is probably on a flat screen... touch typing right Now.

But then again... nobody strange on here...

lol...

He lived a difficult life in a very sad time. As chess players our responsibility is to keep a better world out of the board, better than the world he lived in. Inside the board he produced beauty, we will always respect.

Now let me tell a joke by Alekhine. He was in Lisbon, probably in 1943, I am not sure of the date. Accompanied by some Portuguese masters he was visiting a main chess club while the amateurs played tournament games. He stopped observing an endgame where the player with a bishop pair advantage was playing poorly. He moved along and one of the masters asked him in French. Conversation with Alekhine in Portugal was usually in French language. And take in account that in French the word "Fou" means the chess piece Bishop and also someone who is crazy or a foul... He asked to Alekhine: - "Master, two Fou win in that kind of endgame, isn't it?", and Alekhine answered: - Yes! Two Fou win. But not three Fou! (This way he called foul to the amateur playing badly with the Fou pair).

This story is true and known. It was published in the Portuguese Chess Magazine of the time. I read it myself in a Public Library.

Most probably he died alone inside the hotel room with a conjugation of many factors: bad health, eating meat too fast, somnolence induced by liquor, etc. When everything is wrong the worst outcome arrives naturally. He was put in place in the sofa, next to the board.

In the months before he felt depressed often and received sometimes in his room the visit of a younger violinist. He used to ask him to play Russian folklore music. Once a person from Russia told me this is the kind of music he loved to listen to at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiJ_Ux431mk

I have and read this book published in Portugal about the death of Alekhine (Morte de Alekhine):

https://www.wook.pt/livro/xeque-mate-no-estoril-a-morte-de-alekhine-dagoberto-markl/82658

Red Sarafan is about a woman who gets old (babuska) and Alekhine all is life was seen with older women.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHCPWManZWI (Violin)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fANAqmoZdm8 (Song)

Alekhine arriving in Portugal with his wife, for his first visit in 1940

At that time it could be hard to get food and you could eat it very fast... My father (now 91) told me that when they could get something to eat it was usually cheese and bread and sometimes he did eat a full cheese in a minute. After the WWII he never touched cheese for decades. Only recently I have seen him taking just a bit of cheese again.

Alekhine was never a politician or had a "political blog" or something. He was also easy to beat for the young generation of top GM, he was in poor health etc. He was almost an obscure and forgotten person. The world was moving fast to another big confrontation and he was not in cross-hairs. Hard to believe.

Jogo, the machinations of the Soviets, or even the Salazar regime, must never be underestimated.

Alekhine was most probably murdered, and probably because Stalin suspected that Mikhail Botvinnik wasn't up to the task of beating him OTB.  Of course, Alekhine wasn't well liked for various reasons, but his skills were undeniable.  No one else could have unseated Capablanca (Botvinnik beat him only once, and then only after Capablanca had a mild stroke during the tournament).  Besides, Stalin was notorious for sending hit squads overseas, and Alekhine's suspicious death falls very much inside the Soviet m.o. for the time.

I believe it was Sam Reshevsky, when asked who was the best player, most arrogant player, and worst person he ever played against, who answered without hesitation that the answer to all three was Alexander Alekhine.  Reshevsky played all of the Soviet GMs and Bobby Fischer, and it is noteworthy that he considered Alekhine a stronger player than, and morally worse than, every last one of them.

I don't consider Botvinnik to have legitimately earned the title of World Champion.  Euwe was long past his prime, and was never equal to a sober Alekhine to begin with (barely equal to a drunk one).

If he's still alive then he'll be 126 on Halloween nite.

Yes. The conspirators shoved a big piece of steak in his mouth and he suffocated.

Or it may have been the three quarts of booze he washed it down with.

That's disgusting.  If true, then when Luis died they should have shoved a camera stand up his rear and a camera lens in his mouth,  so he too could die with the tools of his trade. 

While we're on disrespecting the dead,  it seems alekhine's last game and victory was against the same Francisco?  Do conspiracy theorists smell revenge here? 

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1013634

They called him frooty lupi after that.   Imagine the pain. 

So he did an alekhine gun on his own throat with 3 torn pieces of steak? 

No you told us more.  And the joke was on you, not alekhine. Stop projecting. 

Name calling when all else fails. OK. 

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Speaking about "tragic" deaths and Soviets, Stalin was reportedly quoted as saying, "One death is a tragedy; a million deaths are a statistic."  Life was cheap to the Communists.

António de Oliveira Salazar interest in chess was a clear 0 (zero), Josef Stalin interest in chess was like what? In his last games Alekhine draw with people as notable as Perez, Frias and Lupi. Stalin was so worried...