Alexander Alekhine
4th World Chess Champion · Classical era · Russia · 1892–1946
Took the title from Capablanca and died holding it; combinations of terrifying depth.
Career In The Collection
1000Games
520Wins
348Draws
131Losses
69%Score
1910–1946Active
Head-to-Head Records
| Opponent | Games | Wins | Draws | Losses | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max Euwe | 79 | 26 | 34 | 18 | view games |
| Jose Raul Capablanca | 49 | 7 | 33 | 9 | view games |
| Savielly Tartakower | 26 | 10 | 14 | 2 | view games |
| Aron Nimzowitsch | 19 | 8 | 9 | 2 | view games |
| Rudolf Spielmann | 15 | 3 | 10 | 2 | view games |
| Frank Marshall | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | view games |
| Paul Keres | 14 | 5 | 8 | 1 | view games |
| Akiba Rubinstein | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | view games |
| Siegbert Tarrasch | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | view games |
| Geza Maroczy | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | view games |
| Reuben Fine | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | view games |
| Richard Reti | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | view games |
| Emanuel Lasker | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | view games |
| Samuel Reshevsky | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | view games |
| Mir Sultan Khan | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | view games |
| Mikhail Botvinnik | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | view games |
| Carl Schlechter | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | view games |
| Joseph Blackburne | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | view games |
1000 Games · Page 2 of 5
- 1938 vs Rodrigo Flores Alvarez White Carrasco D22 1-0
- 1938 vs Harry Golombek White Margate E20 1-0
- 1938 vs Roberto Grau Black Carrasco E34 0-1
- 1938 vs Carlos E Guimard White Carrasco D61 1/2-1/2
- 1938 vs Paul Keres Black AVRO B14 1/2-1/2
- 1938 vs Paul Keres White AVRO E58 1/2-1/2
- 1938 vs Rene Letelier White Carrasco D29 1-0
- 1938 vs Carlos Maderna Black Carrasco E02 1/2-1/2
- 1938 vs Vera Menchik White Margate D54 1-0
- 1938 vs Philip Stuart Milner Barry White Margate A13 1-0
- 1938 vs Alfredo Olivera Black Carrasco E33 1/2-1/2
- 1938 vs Vladimirs Petrovs Black Margate E02 1-0
- 1938 vs Samuel Reshevsky Black AVRO E43 1/2-1/2
- 1938 vs Samuel Reshevsky White AVRO E20 1/2-1/2
- 1938 vs Ernesto Rotunno Black Carrasco E10 0-1
- 1938 vs Edward G Sergeant Black Margate C76 0-1
- 1938 vs Rudolf Spielmann Black Margate B74 1/2-1/2
- 1938 vs George Alan Thomas Black Margate C86 0-1
- 1938 vs Octavio Trompowsky White Carrasco E01 1-0
- 1937 vs Conel Hughes Alexander White Margate C47 1-0
- 1937 vs Fricis Apsenieks Black Kemeri D04 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Victor Berger Black Margate E43 1-0
- 1937 vs Teodors Bergs Black Kemeri A30 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Efim Bogoljubow White Bad Nauheim/Stuttgart/Garmisch D58 1-0
- 1937 vs Efim Bogoljubow Black Bad Nauheim/Stuttgart/Garmisch C17 1-0
- 1937 vs Eero Book White Kemeri D55 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 17th D17 1-0
- 1937 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 17th D18 0-1
- 1937 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 17th D41 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 17th D18 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Max Euwe Black Bad Nauheim/Stuttgart/Garmisch D29 1-0
- 1937 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 17th E34 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 17th E18 0-1
- 1937 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 17th E17 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 17th E34 1-0
- 1937 vs Max Euwe White Bad Nauheim/Stuttgart/Garmisch C83 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 17th D10 1-0
- 1937 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 17th D41 1-0
- 1937 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 17th D17 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 17th E46 0-1
- 1937 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 17th D19 1-0
- 1937 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 17th D28 1-0
- 1937 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 17th D17 1-0
- 1937 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 17th E02 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 17th E34 1-0
- 1937 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 17th E21 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 17th D18 1-0
- 1937 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 17th D17 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 17th D46 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 17th D19 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 17th E02 1-0
- 1937 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 17th A09 1-0
- 1937 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 17th E34 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Movsa Feigin White Kemeri B10 1-0
- 1937 vs Reuben Fine White Kemeri D23 1-0
- 1937 vs Reuben Fine Black Margate A90 1-0
- 1937 vs Salo Flohr Black Kemeri D27 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Jan Foltys White Margate B62 1-0
- 1937 vs V R. Hazenfuss Black Kemeri C25 0-1
- 1937 vs Paul Keres White Kemeri C84 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Paul Keres Black Margate C71 1-0
- 1937 vs Salo Landau Black Kemeri A84 0-1
- 1937 vs Vera Menchik White Margate D60 1-0
- 1937 vs Vladas Mikenas White Kemeri D74 0-1
- 1937 vs Philip Stuart Milner Barry Black Margate C30 0-1
- 1937 vs Karlis Ozols White Kemeri C15 1-0
- 1937 vs Vladimirs Petrovs Black Kemeri A47 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Ludwig Sr Rellstab White Kemeri A16 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Samuel Reshevsky White Kemeri B05 1-0
- 1937 vs Fritz Saemisch White Bad Nauheim/Stuttgart/Garmisch C86 1-0
- 1937 vs Fritz Saemisch Black Bad Nauheim/Stuttgart/Garmisch D19 0-1
- 1937 vs Gideon Stahlberg Black Kemeri D06 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Endre Steiner White Kemeri A46 1-0
- 1937 vs Savielly Tartakower Black Kemeri C00 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs George Alan Thomas Black Margate C77 0-1
- 1937 vs Theodore Tylor White Margate C86 1-0
- 1936 vs Carl Oscar Ahues Black Bad Nauheim D24 0-1
- 1936 vs Conel Hughes Alexander White Nottingham E16 1-0
- 1936 vs Efim Bogoljubow White Dresden C46 1-0
- 1936 vs Efim Bogoljubow White Bad Nauheim D52 1-0
- 1936 vs Efim Bogoljubow White Nottingham D16 1-0
- 1936 vs Mikhail Botvinnik White Nottingham B72 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Jose Raul Capablanca Black Nottingham A92 1-0
- 1936 vs Erich Gottlieb Eliskases Black Hastings3637 A81 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Erich Gottlieb Eliskases White Podebrady C90 1-0
- 1936 vs Ludwig Engels Black Dresden D85 1-0
- 1936 vs Max Euwe White Amsterdam C49 0-1
- 1936 vs Max Euwe White Nottingham C02 1-0
- 1936 vs Stefan Fazekas Black Podebrady A06 0-1
- 1936 vs Movsa Feigin Black Hastings3637 E33 0-1
- 1936 vs Reuben Fine Black Amsterdam A92 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Reuben Fine White Hastings3637 C90 1-0
- 1936 vs Reuben Fine Black Nottingham D53 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Salo Flohr White Nottingham C15 1-0
- 1936 vs Salo Flohr Black Podebrady A92 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Jan Foltys White Podebrady D61 1-0
- 1936 vs Paulino Frydman White Podebrady B63 1-0
- 1936 vs Henry Grob White Dresden D35 1-0
- 1936 vs Ernst Gruenfeld Black Amsterdam A43 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Herbert Heinicke White Bad Nauheim D51 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Karl Helling White Dresden D16 1-0
- 1936 vs Paul Keres Black Dresden E33 0-1
- 1936 vs Paul Keres White Bad Nauheim A40 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Hans Kmoch Black Amsterdam A44 0-1
- 1936 vs George Koltanowski Black Hastings3637 A47 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Salo Landau White Amsterdam C10 1-0
- 1936 vs Emanuel Lasker Black Nottingham E33 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Geza Maroczy White Dresden D94 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Vera Menchik Black Hastings3637 D40 0-1
- 1936 vs Vera Menchik Black Podebrady A46 0-1
- 1936 vs Karel Opocensky Black Podebrady D32 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Jorge Pelikan Black Podebrady A02 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs V. Petrov White Podebrady A90 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Vasja Pirc White Podebrady B17 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Ludwig Sr Rellstab White Bad Nauheim D06 1-0
- 1936 vs Samuel Reshevsky White Nottingham D04 0-1
- 1936 vs Kurt Richter White Podebrady A48 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Ludwig Roedl White Dresden D41 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Fritz Saemisch Black Dresden A92 0-1
- 1936 vs Carlos Skalicka Black Podebrady A47 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Gideon Stahlberg Black Bad Nauheim E14 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Gideon Stahlberg Black Dresden E18 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Gideon Stahlberg White Podebrady D37 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Lajos Steiner Black Podebrady C41 0-1
- 1936 vs Savielly Tartakower Black Nottingham D02 0-1
- 1936 vs George Alan Thomas White Podebrady D53 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs George Alan Thomas Black Nottingham B74 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs George Alan Thomas White Hastings3637 D35 1-0
- 1936 vs Karel Treybal Black Podebrady C79 0-1
- 1936 vs Theodore Tylor White Nottingham D36 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Theodore Tylor Black Hastings3637 D47 0-1
- 1936 vs Johannes Van den Bosch White Amsterdam D64 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Johannes Van den Bosch White Bad Nauheim C48 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Theo D Van Scheltinga White Amsterdam E17 1-0
- 1936 vs Milan Sr Vidmar Black Bad Nauheim D69 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Milan Sr Vidmar White Hastings3637 D65 1-0
- 1936 vs Milan Sr Vidmar Black Nottingham D85 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Gerhard Weissgerber Black Bad Nauheim B84 0-1
- 1936 vs William Winter White Hastings3637 B15 1-0
- 1936 vs William Winter Black Nottingham C01 0-1
- 1936 vs Emil Zinner Black Podebrady D22 0-1
- 1935 vs Almirall White Madrid sim A96 1-0
- 1935 vs Erik Sr Andersen White Warsaw ol E24 1-0
- 1935 vs F. Axelsson Black Orebro sim D22 0-1
- 1935 vs Karl Berndtsson Kullberg White Orebro sim E24 1-0
- 1935 vs Bieler White Barcelona sim B60 1-0
- 1935 vs Eero Book White Warsaw ol D23 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Busto White Barcelona sim B29 1-0
- 1935 vs Henrik Carlsson White Orebro sim D68 1-0
- 1935 vs Catala White Barcelona sim C60 1-0
- 1935 vs Pedro Cherta White Barcelona sim D40 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs M. Cifuentes Black Madrid sim D31 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Sigurd Clausen Black Malmo sim E18 1-0
- 1935 vs E. Duffo White Barcelona sim B32 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Eikstroem White Riga sim B15 0-1
- 1935 vs Bengt Ekenberg Black Orebro sim A80 0-1
- 1935 vs Elksnis White Riga sim B29 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 16th B05 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 16th D17 1-0
- 1935 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 16th A90 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 16th D17 0-1
- 1935 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 16th D17 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 16th D17 1-0
- 1935 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 16th D66 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 16th D12 0-1
- 1935 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 16th D12 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 16th D81 0-1
- 1935 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 16th C15 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 16th C15 1-0
- 1935 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 16th C15 1-0
- 1935 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 16th A20 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 16th D97 1-0
- 1935 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 16th D21 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 16th C83 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 16th D04 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 16th C15 1-0
- 1935 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 16th D15 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 16th D12 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 16th D45 1-0
- 1935 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 16th D45 1-0
- 1935 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 16th D16 1-0
- 1935 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 16th E18 1-0
- 1935 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 16th D81 1-0
- 1935 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 16th D52 0-1
- 1935 vs Max Euwe White World Championship 16th C27 1-0
- 1935 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 16th D82 1-0
- 1935 vs Max Euwe Black World Championship 16th E33 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Reuben Fine Black Warsaw ol D02 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Fride White Riga sim D36 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Juan Manuel Fuentes Black Madrid sim D04 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Juan Manuel Fuentes White Madrid sim C13 0-1
- 1935 vs M. Golmayo Black Madrid sim D20 0-1
- 1935 vs Roberto Grau Black Warsaw ol A90 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs A. Kalinsh White Riga sim B20 0-1
- 1935 vs Kampar White Riga sim D18 0-1
- 1935 vs Paul Keres White Warsaw ol C79 1-0
- 1935 vs K. Kruza White Riga sim D34 0-1
- 1935 vs Rafael Llorens White Barcelona sim D10 1-0
- 1935 vs Erik Lundin White Orebro sim D51 1-0
- 1935 vs A. Mellgren Black Orebro sim B33 0-1
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