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One of the greatest tournaments ever held?
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Lately,
I am wrapping up a project that I began back in 2002.
One
thing that I am doing is looking for the 10-25 best or strongest
tournaments of all time. (See the cross-table below.)
I
am also doing some background research on several of the greatest players
of all time ... with the aim of doing a web page on some of these
players. (I had a web page on nearly all of these players prior to the big
"dot-com crash" in the late 1990's. However the parent company -
Excite - went bust, and all of those pages closed literally
overnight.)
One
of the players that I have been reading about and studying is Alexander Alekhine. (Wednesday, January 31st, 2007.) |
Alekhine's
Best Tournament?
What
was one one of the greatest tournaments of all time? What was one of the
strongest tournaments ever held?
(These are questions that I often think about.)
What
was GM Alexander Alekhine's best tournament performance?
For my money, this is it. (See the Jeff Sonas /
"Chess - Metrics" web
page for this event. Search
CG for these games.)
Consider
the following:
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Seven
of the world's "Top Ten" players attended this
event.
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Almost
every player here was a "Super-GM" by today's standards. (At
least a GM - at a bare minimum.)
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Practically
every player here was a chess legend. (Look at the names!)
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GM
Alexander Alekhine dominated this event ... from start to finish. (He ran
away with it!)
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By
the standards of late 2006, if you play "the replacement game,"
(replace the player's ratings of that day with the modern ones);
Alekhine's PERFORMANCE RATING would be well over 3000! (Closer to 3200,
actually!!!)
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I
have studied many of the games from this event. There were almost no short
draws, every game was a tremendous fight, from the first move to the last.
(I have a book on this event.)
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See
my web
page on the contest: Alexander
Alekhine - Aaron Nimzovich, from this tournament.
Search
Google ... for more on this
tournament.
Jeff
Sonas rates San
Remo, 1930 as a better PR ... but four of those
players were weak, rank outsiders.
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