a. alekhine: agony of a chess genius

The tragic last years of world chess champion Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946), 45 of his match and tournament games in Spain and Portugal from 1943 to 1946, and 100 other late exhibition games are covered. A definitive biographical sketch emerges of Alekhine in his final phase, covering his marriages, alcoholism and murky involvement with the Nazis.

The late Pablo Morán, of Oviedo, Spain, was an international arbiter, a national master and author of seven other chess books. Frank X. Mur is a Spanish translator and interpreter living in Oakland, California. Dale A. Brandreth lives in Yorklyn, Delaware, and is a well known publisher and distributor of chess books.