List of people who have beaten Alexander Alekhine in chess

The following people have beaten Alexander Alekhine (31 October 1892 – 24 March 1946) [http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/alekhine.htm Alexander Alekhine by Bill Wall] in a regular game of chess – not a game played at odds. [http://www.alekhinechess.com/english/alekhine/results.html Alekhine's Results] [http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/ La grande storia degli scacchi] [http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/index.htm Roger Paige's Chess Site] Alekhine was considered to be one of the best players in history (Comparing top chess players throughout history). [Arpad Elo, "The Rating of Chessplayers, Past and Present", (1978)] [Raymond Keene and Nathan Divinsky, "Warriors of the Mind", (1989)] [Jeff Sonas, [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2345 The Greatest Chess Player of All Time – Part I] (2001), at Chessbase]

Games Alekhine lost when he was younger than sixteen years old are marked (U16).

Tournament and match play

Simon Alapin, Vilna 1912

Victor Berger, Margate 1937

Ossip Bernstein, Paris 1933 (match, +1=2−1)

Arturo Bonet, Gijon 1945

Efim Bogoljubow, St. Petersburg 1913/14, Triberg 1921 ("secret match", +1=2−1), Margate 1923, Wiesbaden−Berlin−Amsterdam 1929 (World Championship match, +5=9−11), Berne 1932, Germany 1934 (World Championship match, +3=15−8), Bad Nauheim−Stuttgart−Garmisch 1937 ("Quadrangular"), Salzburg 1942, Warsaw−Lublin−Krakow 1942, Warsaw 1943 (match, +1=0−1) Mikhail Botvinnik, The Netherlands (AVRO) 1938

Amos Burn, Carlsbad 1911

José Raúl Capablanca, St. Petersburg 1913 (exhibition match, +2=0−0), St. Petersburg 1914 (two games), New York 1927, Buenos Aires 1927 (World Championship match, +3=25−6), Nottingham 1936

Arthur Dake, Pasadena 1932

Dawid Daniuszewski, St. Petersburg 1909

Oldřich Duras, Hamburg 1910

Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky, St. Petersburg 1912 (exhibition game)

Max Euwe, Amsterdam 1926/27 (match, +2=5−3), Zurich 1934, The Netherlands 1935 (World Championship match, +9=13−8), Amsterdam 1936, Bad Nauheim−Stuttgart−Garmisch 1937 ("Quadrangular"), The Netherlands 1937 (World Championship match, +4=11−10), The Hague 1937 (exhibition match, +2=2−1)

Alexander Evensohn, Kiev 1916 (match, +1=0−2)

Hans Fahrni (U16), Munich 1908 (match, +1=1−1)

Reuben Fine, Margate 1937, The Netherlands (AVRO) 1938 (two games)

Leó Forgács, Hamburg 1910

Sergey von Freymann, Vilna 1912

Joel Fridlizius, Stockholm 1912

Karl Gilg, Semmering 1926

Bernhard Gregory, St. Petersburg 1913/14

Ernst Grünfeld, Vienna 1922

Dawid Janowski, Scheveningen 1913, Mannheim 1914

Paul Johner, Carlsbad 1911

Klaus Junge, Salzburg 1942

Paul Keres, Margate 1937

Boris Koyalovich, St. Petersburg 1912

Emanuel Lasker, St. Petersburg 1914 (two games), New York 1924

Paul Saladin Leonhardt, Carlsbad 1911

Grigory Levenfish, St. Petersburg 1913

Stepan Levitsky, St. Petersburg 1911 (match, +3=0−7), Vilna 1912

F. López Núñez, Almeria 1945

Moishe Lowtzky, St. Petersburg 1913/14

Francisco Lupi, Caceres 1945, Estoril 1946 (match, +1=1−2)

Hermanis Matisons, Prague 1931 (4th Chess Olympiad)

Antonio Medina, Gijon 1945

Walter Michel, Berne 1925 ("Quadrangular")

Vladas Mikenas, Kemeri 1937

Oskar Naegeli, Berne 1932 ("Quadrangular")

Vladimir Nenarokov (U16), Moscow 1908 (match, +3=0−0)

M. Neumann (U16), Düsseldorf 1908

Bjørn Nielsen, Munich 1941

Aron Nimzowitsch, St. Petersburg 1914 (play-off match, +1=0−1), Semmering 1926, New York 1927

Karel Opočenský, Munich 1941

Nikolay Pavlov-Pianov, Moscow 1920 (match, +1=0−1)

Julius Perlis, Carlsbad 1911

Vladimirs Petrovs, Margate 1938

Abram Rabinovich, Carlsbad 1911

Ilya Rabinovich, St. Petersburg 1914 (exhibition game)

Ludwig Rellstab, Munich 1942

Samuel Reshevsky, Nottingham 1936

Richard Réti, New York 1924

Peter Romanovsky, St. Petersburg 1909

Akiba Rubinstein, Moscow 1909 (exhibition game), Carlsbad 1911, Vilna 1912, Vienna 1922

Carl Schlechter, Hamburg 1910, Carlsbad 1911

Vasily Osipovich Smyslov, St. Petersburg 1912

Rudolf Spielmann, Carlsbad 1911, Carlsbad 1923

Siegbert Tarrasch, Hamburg 1910

Savielly Tartakower, Bad Pistyan 1922, Folkestone 1933 (5th Chess Olympiad)

Richard Teichmann, Carlsbad 1911, Berlin 1921 (match, +2=2−2)

Karel Treybal, Carlsbad 1923

Milan Vidmar, Semmering 1926

A. Wiarda (U16), Düsseldorf 1908

Heinrich Wolf, Vienna 1922

Frederick Yates, Hastings 1922, Carlsbad 1923

ee also

*List of people who have beaten José Raúl Capablanca in chess
*List of people who have beaten Bobby Fischer in chess
*List of people who have beaten Garry Kasparov in chess
*List of people who have beaten Emanuel Lasker in chess

Notes

References

*cite book | author=Kotov, Alexander | title=Alexander Alekhine | publisher=R.H.M. Press | year=1975 | id=ISBN 0-89058-007-3
*cite book | author=Winter, E. G. (ed.) | title=World Chess Champions | publisher=Pergamon | year=1981 | id=ISBN 0-08-024094-1
*cite book | author=Hooper, David and Kenneth Whyld | title=The Oxford Companion To Chess | publisher=Oxford University| year=1996 | id=ISBN 0-19-280049-3
*cite book | author=Kasparov, Garry | title=Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors: Part 1 | publisher=Everyman Chess | year=2003 | id=ISBN 1-85744-330-6

External links

*http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=10240