Alexander Alekhine. Life as War

Alekhine is not just a genius and the first Russian world champion in chess. He is a person with an extraordinary fate. World and civil wars, bloody revolutions, failed executions, loss of homeland, accusations of collaborationism — Alekhine's life was terribly complicated, but he adaptively managed to cope. And he did everything to ensure that no one interfered with his one true passion, which he pursued with mania — chess. Unlike most other books about Alekhine, in this one you will see a board with a complete set of chess pieces: detailed stories about the great Lasker, the elegant Capablanca, the NSDAP member Bogolyubov, and the Soviet colossus Botvinnik, who were important parts of our hero's fate. Almost all of Alekhine's life is war. With people, circumstances... It is also about overcoming, and betrayal. And the book by Sports.ru author Stanislav Kuptsov is perhaps not even about chess, but about the fragile little thing called "life."