<Alekhine's Chess Lectures> indeed looks promising. I was able to find it, download it, and convert it to a word.doc in under 10 minutes, thanks to you.

The German biography by <Mueller and Pavelczak> and all of <Kotovs'> stuff is riddled with errors, not to be trusted. I think <Kotov> used the German bio and just cribbed all of these tall tales, because they are reproduced in his biography of Alekhine. Unfortunately, these are the exact tales most repeated on the internet, and, sadly, repeated on Alekhine's player page here at our website.

I'm at the point now where I'm reading and reading and I'm not seeing anything I haven't already heard about, which is a good place to be in terms of actually getting this documentary done. I started research on it in January.

unfortunately, it's also obvious that he is driven by a love for Alekhine so strong that he actually accuses <Francisco Lupi> of writing hateful things about Alekhine- when in fact, if you read <Lupi's> account (which is prefaced by the adviso that he can't remember it all exactly, dates and places and conversations)- it's obvious that <Lupi> loved Alekhine as much, or more, as anyone else who met him, and knew him.

Chaschilin never met Alekhine.

Finally, it's fine that Chaschilin concludes that Alekhine was murdered- but he states this vehemently, as an incontrovertible fact. Even <Kevin Spraggett>, the most "pro murder scenario" writer *until now* warns us that his own theory on the "murder of Alekhine" is speculative and not to be taken as proven fact.

That's bad history writing on Chaschilin's part- particularly since this long section of his article- which is interesting- by no means "proves" Alekhine was murdered.

What a shame that someone who did so much work to look for primary sources (and the absences of some of those sources!) has rendered himself unreliable due to his passion for the subject.

Good grief how did you people survive a decade of such poor video resolution.

Also, I have a theory that anyone who doesn't like <Small and Stoat> is crabby.

Its a fact!>

Hao aboot that, eh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland...

All I did was combine two pieces of live film with some footage from a Russian TV show and an interview with <Alekhine> and some music by <Faure>.

Then I edited it down to its current length.

I feel hesitant to claim that I "created" anything in my videos except for the scripts I wrote for the three chess documentaries with <Richard> narrating.

However, your support and encouragement means a lot to me, especially coming from a bona fide creator such as yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7RP...

However, I *did* know the video, because you already posted it for me before.

lol