| LC control no. | n 50033482 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Alekhine, Alexander, 1892-1946 |
| Variant(s) | Alekhine, A. (Alexander), 1892-1946 Aljechin, A. A., 1892-1946 Alekhine, A. A. (Alexander A.), 1892-1946 Alekhine, Alexandre, 1892-1946 Alekhin, Alexander, 1892-1946 Alekhin, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 1892-1946 Alyokhin, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 1892-1946 Алехин, Александр Александрович, 1892-1946 |
| Associated country | Germany Spain |
| Associated place | Paris (France) |
| Address | info@worldchesshof.org |
| Birth date | 1892-11-01 |
| Death date | 1946-03-24 |
| Place of birth | Moscow (Russia) |
| Place of death | Estoril (Portugal) |
| Field of activity | Capablanca, José Raúl, 1888-1942 |
| Affiliation | Sorbonne Université World Chess Hall of Fame |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyer World chess champion |
| Special note | Non-Latin reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | His My best games of chess, 1908-1923, 1927. Grand Larousse (Alekhine, Alexandre, 1892-1946; naturalized French after the Russian Revolution) Encyc. Amer. (Alekhine, Alexander) Encyc. Brit. (Alekhine, Alexander) Chessbase website, August 29, 2023: (Alexander Alekhine; Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine; was born on November 1 (some sources give October 31), 1892 to a wealthy family in Moscow, Russia; died March 25, 1946 in Estoril, Portugal; chess grandmaster who played against José Raúl Capablanca; in 1921 he left Soviet Russia and moved to France, becoming a French citizen in 1925; he studied law at the Sorbonne; in the years before his death Alekhine lived in Spain and Portugal, playing tournaments in Nazi Germany or German occupied countries; he is also given as the author of a number of articles directed against Jewish chessplayers, which appeared in the Nazi press, but after the war he denied being the author of these articles; he was found dead in his room on the morning of March 24 (the date of his death is usually given as March 25th, and this may be a result of assuming he had died on the previous evening; the date on his grave notes March 25; the cause of death given was either by his choking on a piece of meat or by a heart attack, though the exact circumstances remain to this day a matter of debate)) <https://en.chessbase.com/post/alekhine-s-death-an-unresolved-mystery-> World Chess Hall of Fame website, August 29, 2023: (Alexander Alekhine; was born 1892 in Moscow; died 1946; chess grandmaster who played against José Raúl Capablanca; inducted in the World Chess Hall of Fame in 2004; info@worldchesshof.org) <https://worldchesshof.org/hof-inductee/alexander-alekhine> Encyclopedia Britannica website, August 29, 2023: (Alexander Alekhine (Alekhine also spelled Alekhin or Aljechin, original name Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Alyokhin); born October 31, 1892 in Moscow, Russian Empire; died March 24, 1946 in Estoril, Portugal; world champion chess player from 1927 to 1935 and from 1937 until his death, noted for using a great variety of attacks and played against José Raúl Capablanca of Cuba) <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Alekhine> |
| Associated language | rus fre |
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