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Alexander Alekhine vs Ferran Freixa
Alekhine simul, 30b Barcelona (1928) (exhibition), Barcelona ESP, Jan-24
Italian Game: General (C50)  ·  1-0

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Feb-13-10
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  GrahamClayton: According to Skinner and Verhoeven in "Alexander Alekhine's Games of Chess, 1902-1946", Alekhine's behaviour at this simul left a lot to be desired!

"Simultaneous Display at the Iris Park, Barcelona, 24 January 1928

For his first European exhibition as world champion, Alekhine agreed to give a simultaneous display against 30 strong opponents, who came from all over Cataluña. The display took seven hours to complete and at the end, Alekhine had won 21 games, drew 2 and lost 7. All the games were published in La Nau and later in El Ajedrez. In spite of the great friendliness and hospitality shown to Alekhine by the local aficionados, his behavior left a lot to be desired. It appeared to border on megalomania. For example, not only was he rude and overbearing to his opponents, but on some boards, where the positions were dubious for him, he insisted on adjudicating them as being in his favour, and he forced his opponents to resign. After such a warm welcome and lavish hospitality from his hosts, his behaviour was very churlish."

Sep-29-15  TheFocus: From a simultaneous exhibition in Barcelona, Spain on January 24, 1928.

Alekhine scored +21=2-7.

See <El Ajedrez 1980>, pg. 436.

Mar-17-17
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  MissScarlett: <Freixit>
Mar-02-19  cjelli: My 9-years old son found 30. ... Rxg4! that makes White's win questionable at best.
Sep-14-20
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  Joshka: 30...Qd1+?
Sep-14-20
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  fredthebear: After 30.Rxf6, a painful discovered check lurks on the long diagonal.

30...Rxg4 is met by 31.Rd6+ winning the Black queen.

30...Qd1+ is met by the interposing 31.Rf1+ winning the Black queen.

Getting the Black king off the long diagonal is worse. 30...Kh7? 31.Rxh6#.

"Discovered check is the dive-bomber of the chessboard." -- Reuben Fine (and surely repeated by Fred Reinfeld)

Oct-07-21  cjelli: <fredthebear>, at the time of the discovered check, white is down a queen and a knight, so winning a queen back isn't exactly an immediate win.

If you click on 'Engine' on move 30, you can see the position evaluates only to +0.6 after 30...Rxg4.

Oct-08-21
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  offramp: No churlishocity from Alekhine in this game. He won fair and square.
Oct-08-21  The Kings Domain: Another impressive win by Alekhine.
Oct-08-21
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  offramp:


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Black played a check. Who wouldn't? Checks are brilliant.
30...c4+ is met by the deflating cross check
31. Rxb6+. Kibosh!
*****
But in that position above, black had a good option:
30...Rxg4!


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What NOW for Alekhine? In that diag Black is ♕ ♖ & ♘ ahead. You'd better do something bloody clever.

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