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Alexander Alekhine vs NN
Paris 1925  ·  Colle System (D05)  ·  0-1


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Jul-17-04   ThomYorke: Alekhine lost only three games. If he blundered on this, it doesn´t matter. He still did a great job.
Jul-23-04   Chesspatch: this game should be annotated
23. Qxd5(?^10) Qxd5(duh!)
24. Bf3(?^3) e4(end of discussion)

0-1 (And Alekhine walks out bottle in mouth.)

Jan-31-05   GreenDayGuy: Why does it say board 11 under black? And <Chesspatch> LOL.
Mar-21-05   Mate Hunter: Maybe Alekhine was playing many games blindford and he thought the white square bishop was on f3 because the black square bishop was on c3.
Jun-02-05   blackjacki2: Wait, he played all these games at the same time??
Dec-24-05
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  weisyschwarz: "Ohh, was his queen on d6?" The Master just plain forgot.
Dec-24-05   offramp: Possible scandal!

Firstly, I don't think the explanation that Alekhine misheard "Qd6" as "Qb6" holds water, because if Alekhine thought the black queen was on b6 then the move 17.a4 loses a pawn to 17...Bxb4.

However, if Alekhine later in the game asked someone to read him out the score, and during that reading he misheard "Qd6" as "Qb6" - say at about 21 - then that could have been the cause of the error.

Clame!

Jun-18-06   ughaibu: Presumably they were speaking French.
Jun-18-06   Aspirador: I think it makes sense that Alekhine thought the queen was on b6. After 17...Bxb4 18.axb5 and white is fine. He MUST have thought that the queen was somewhere else. Other than d8, b6 is the only reasonable guess.
Nov-13-06   black knight c6: It's a pity white resigned while in a winning position <_< >_>
Dec-16-07   2021: How is this a Colle System if white played 4.Nc3?
Jun-12-08   ravel5184: Is this the same NN that Greco beat 75-0?
Dec-22-08   WhiteRook48: We should make a collection of ALL of NN's wins
Dec-23-08   WhiteRook48: Alekwine
Dec-23-08   Nullifidian: <WhiteRook48> <We should make a collection of ALL of NN's wins>

There already is one. Chessgames allows you to search all of NN's games restricted to the wins. This is the page:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

Dec-23-08
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  Calli: Not really "NN" as all of the teams in this exhibition are known. See Game Collection: Alyehkin's Record breaking Blindfold Performance In this game, Black is "Ecole Polytechnique Paris".
Dec-23-08   WhiteRook48: I actually made a game collection of all of NN's wins. Just see my profile, click on my game collections, and it's the "Remarkable NN wins" collection.
Jan-24-09   WhiteRook48: maybe Alekhine played a brilliant sacrifice but forgot the follow-up
Jan-26-09   banane: i bet his mouse slipped
Feb-06-09   WhiteRook48: what, so Alekhine played the game online?
Mar-04-09
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  JointheArmy: <i bet his mouse slipped>

Premove.

Mar-17-09   WhiteRook48: wait this was played online?
Apr-23-09
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  Eisenheim: whiterook - they are teasing u - there was no internet in 1925 to play online. also, the misheard theory doesnt hold water as i dont think the algebraic notation system was used back then
Sep-12-09   Cercatore: Alekhine was drunk, or he's sleeping?
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