The collaboration question is not going to be easy to deal with quickly. Short of finding a smoking gun in AA's private papers, there is still room for debate over what really happened and why. I think those are still sealed by French law for another half dozen years or so.

Thanks again- unfortunately it's not so easy to re-edit a video because of how the "Windows Movie Maker" works.

You can't just save a movie you made with this program to your hard drive- Well you can, but all of the material you used has to be saved somewhere else in your computer but NOT in a Folder.

That means that you have to clutter the main holding places- "pictures" "music" "video" "desktop" with hundreds of individual photos.

If you just leave them there then you can't make new videos because it's impossible to keep track of so many hundreds- now thousands- of photos.

And once you convert a raw file from this program to a video file (wmv, avi, etc.) then you can't edit it any more (with Windows programs at least).

So I'd have to actually take all of the Bobby photos out of their folders again, and reassemble them again and re-make the entire video from scratch.

For me, right now, that's not worth it just to put the names of the players on their photos.

However, I could do this at some point if I really wanted to.

Spragget thinks that Alekhine was murdered by Portuguese secret police acting on orders from the Soviet Union.

heh

Most people believe he choked on his dinner. Most concede the crime scene was altered for the photo, but this could have been done for any number of reasons.

As I research further, I'm finding it a little unfair that <Keres> and <Bogoljubow> get a "pass" for collaboration given that they appeared in the same tournaments as Alekhine, and that <Bogoljubow> also publicly supported the Nazi chess establishment in print.

I understand that Alekhine published actual AntiSemitic articles- but whether or not he wrote them seems like a non-issue to me.

He was either coerced or gave in to pressure.

There's no independent evidence that he was AntiSemitic- quite the contrary, in fact.

Gracie was a Jew and the Nazis were refusing to let her out of France at the exact moment Alekhine published the articles.

Then they looted her castle.

I suspect you are correct, but who knows what malarkey may find its way into my video when I get to this topic.

People like a murder mystery.

If you keep this level up we old pranksters soon will have nothing to complain about.

Which is impossible, etc. ...

Thanks very much for your encouragement! The fifth and last part should be done soon.

Here are the first four parts of

"Alexander Alekhine" Chess biography:

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ2T...

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LRK...

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQzS...