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Alexander Alekhine vs Samuel Frucella
Simul, 38b (1932) (exhibition), Buffalo Athletic Club, Buffalo, NY USA, Nov-16
Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit. Main Line (C29)  ·  0-1

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Apr-22-14  RedShield: <Having nothing to do for the rest of the evening I stood behind the chair of Dr. Frucella, one of Buffalo's strongest players, to watch the mincemeat the World Champion was bound to make of him. I learned a lot while standing there that night. I noticed Alekhine didn't pass Frucella's board without stopping. I saw that the champ's scowl was just as ferocious as it had been before my board, but there was one tremendous difference--it didn't bother Frucela at all because he never looked at Alekhine. He just sat there and played a game of chess, watching the board all the time, and seeing no more of his famous opponent than an occasional hand moving a piece.

And the moves they made! I couldn't see the reason or the plans behind any of them. Then, all of a suden, with the board still full of pieces, Alekhine resigned, his only loss of the evening. As they shook hands, I think Frucella got his first glimpse of the defeated World Champion.

Later I asked Frucella why Alekhine had resigned. The position looked perfectly innocuous to me. Again the pitying glance from a master chessplayer, and again the simple but meaningless explaination: "Why I had him all tied up, and no matter what he did I was bound to win something.">

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  GrahamClayton: Alekhine's only loss in a 38 board simultaneous exhibition in Buffalo on the 16th of November 1932. Alekhine's score was +36, -1. =1
Oct-18-15  TheFocus: From a simultaneous exhibition in Buffalo, New York at the Buffalo Athletic Club on November 16, 1932.

Alekhine scored +36=1-1.

See <Buffalo Evening News>, November 19, 1932.

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