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Alekhine - Birmingham 1926 Club tournament, 3-9 June 1926. By arrangement, due to his late arrival, Alekhine played his scheduled first round game on the day of, and prior to, the fifth round. 5 games, 1926 Alekhine - Buenos Aires 1926 23 September - 11th October 1926 Alekhine won his 9th round game vs Carranza, set for October 9th, by default. 9 games, 1926 Alekhine - Buenos Aires Olympiad 1939 16 games, 1939 Alekhine - Caracas 1939 This double round tournament held in Caracas in February 1939 was intended as a training event with Alekhine competing against five prospective members of the Venezuelan team for the upcoming Olympiad in Buenos Aires (ultimately no team was entered). Limited information has survived; no crosstable has been found, round details including dates are all but unknown. We do know Alekhine won all ten games but only seven scores have surfaced. 5 games, 1939 Alekhine - Ed. Lasker 1913 3 games, 1913 Alekhine - Folkestone Olympiad 1933 Compiled and written by TheFocus chessforum The 4th Chess Olympiad was held in Folkestone, England. Alekhine again returned to play board one for France, competing in 12 of 14 matches, and achieving a score of 8 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss, to Tartakower. The United States again won the event, with Czechoslovakia in second, and a three-way tie for 3rd to 5th places between Sweden, Poland and Hungary. France finished in 8th place. 12 games, 1933 Alekhine - Hamburg Olympiad 1930 Compiled and written by TheFocus chessforum #################################### Alekhine played first board for France in the 3rd Olympiad, played at Hamburg, Germany. This was the first time that a reigning world champion was to play in a Chess Olympiad. The French team finished in 12th place out of the 18 participating countries. Poland, led by Akiva Rubinstein, took first place, with Hungary second, and Germany in third. Alekhine won the brilliancy prize for his game against Gideon Stahlberg (Sweden). He did not win a medal because the medalists played 17 games each. Alekhine rested during his scheduled games against the strongest opponents he would have faced, including Flohr, Marshall, Maroczy, Rubinstein, and Sultan Khan. In <Alexander Alekhine's Chess Games, 1902-1946>, authors Skinner and Verhoeven speculate on the reason for this behavior: "The reason for this was probably due more to his unwillingness to undertake the time and effort required in the absence of any substantial prize money, rather than any fear of meeting those particular opponents." 9 games, 1930 Alekhine - Margate 1923 Score of round 7 game (1-0) with White vs Eugene Ernest Colman is lost. 6 games, 1923 Alekhine - Montevideo 1938 Played at the Hotel Miramar de Carrasco from the 7th to 25th March 1938. 15 games, 1938 Alekhine - Montevideo 1939 Millington Drake tournament, 21-29 September 1939 7 games, 1939 Alekhine - Orebro 1935 Tournament played from the 7th-16th April 1935. 9 games, 1935 Alekhine - Paris 1933 19-27 October 9 games, 1933 Alekhine - Plymouth 1938 7 games, 1938 Alekhine - Prague 1942 11 games, 1942 Alekhine - Prague 1943 20 games, 1943 Alekhine - Prague Olympiad 1931 Compiled and written by TheFocus chessforum The 4th Olympiad took place in Prague, Czechoslovakia with 19 teams competing. Alekhine played on Board one for France in every round, taking no rest days and achieving a score of 10 wins, 7 draws and 1 loss to achieve the highest score on board 1. The loss to Mattison was Alekhine's first loss in serious competition since winning the World Champion's title four years earlier. The United States finished in first place, followed by Poland in second place, and Czechoslovakia in third. 18 games, 1931 Alekhine - Scarborough 1926 8 games, 1926 Alekhine - Teichmann (1921) 6 games, 1921 Alekhine - Warsaw Olympiad 1935 16th-31st August The score of Alekhine's 14th round victory vs Oskar Naegeli, 0-1, is missing. Another game score thought to be lost, Gruenfeld vs Alekhine, 1935, turned up a few years ago. 16 games, 1935 Anglo-American Parliamentary cable match (1897) This contest pitted the venerable House of Commons with the upstart House of Representatives. 5 games, 1897

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