Alekhine
Re-embraced
Post Mortem
Post Mortem
Curiously, after 3 decades of villification, Alekine was rehabilitated in the 1950s as seen in Kotov's book on the Soviet Chess School. He is there represented as a great Russian player in the tradition of Tchigorin (the semi-mythical founder of the Soviet School), who lost his way. But,
Kotov assures us, at the end of his
life he realized his errors and died Missing his homeland.
Cover of
Kotov’s Chess Bible