The Masters: Alexander Alekhine Master of Attack

Very good quality book with contents well suited for all kinds of chess players

I hadn’t really known much about Alekhine before buying this book. My playing level is very average but I found this book useful. Especially the “problems” . Unlike other books with only problems, which are mate in 2,3,4 etc, these problems are also about material advantage (and not necessarily mate) so one has to think really hard. The “tip” feature is also useful (and something unique) where the authors guide you to the solution if you’re stuck (and I found myself using the tips almost always). The solutions are laid out as part of the whole game and includes notes / annotations. Many whole games are included with useful annotations.Print is clear and well laid out and organised.One drawback (for me) was that I couldn’t find the game that has “Alekhines triple gun”. There are some 200 of his games in the book but not the one with the triple gun (at least I couldn’t find it). All I had known about Alekhine before buying the book was the “triple gun” so was somewhat disappointed that this game wasn’t included. But apart from that, an excellent book. Well worth the money if you play chess.

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Neatly packed. Delivered before time. Also, this book is very instructive.

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I have other books on Alekhine games. This masterpiece by Raetsky & Chetverik is the best. I have moved on to a higher level.

Mi è piaciuto molto questo libro. Ha un metodo didatticamente valido. Consigliato a chi vuole approfondire il gioco dal punto di vista tattico-combinativo.

An exciting selection of Alekhine finishes, well laid out and chosen.

There are many chess books around. Every chess player expects to learn a lot from each book but not always the expectations are fullfilled. For instance, there are many books about alekhine chess games, even written by Alekhine himself! A chess player can learn a lot reading the annotators remarks of each game, but in my opinion, the best approach is to try by yourself, I mean, to analyse deep in each position to find for yourself what is going on in each game.Alekhine was, no doubt, a master of attack, and the chess amateur (and even the professionals), can learn from his games. Raetsky and Chetverik, did something unusual, I guess. They wrote some sort of a mini biography of Alekhine and a good chess combinations puzzle book using only Alekhine's games. They also analyse and make some good comments about most famous and spectacular Alekhine games, but the core of the book is for the aspiring chess player. He/she has to try to solve the combinations of the former world champion. The book is really neat in his conception. the authors classified the combinations at differente levels. The first chapters are really easy, one or two moves combinations, but then the difficult of the combinations pull up.The book has few hundreds of combinations and with the authors's approach you can have a good view of Alekhine chess life and also, to get a deep knowledge of his art at the chessboard with a hands on approach!In my opinion, this book (like other from these two authors about famous chess players), is a very good way to train in the tactic aspect of the chess student. The authors wrote also another book with this scheme around Mikhail Tal, which I recommend too.