Alexander Alekhine – 4th World Champion

“The chess games of Alekhine – one of the foremost chess artists of the past – will live on for centuries. Chess players will always enjoy playing over Alekhine’s games and marvel at his genius”.

(M. Botvinnik, The 6th World Champion).

The program contains 1300 commented games played by the 4th World Champion Alexander Alekhine.

The annotations by Alekhine and his contemporaries've been revised and enlarged by IMs J. Ulko and A. Mitenkov. 600 games are commented for the first time!

It also includes the complete tournament results plus a number of rare photos. There is a separate tutorial section, “Play as Alekhine”, which contains 200 carefully chosen positions for you to solve, representing some of the most interesting and instructive positions from his games. It also comes with the built-in playing programs: Dragon and Crafty.

No additional software is required.

English, German, Spanish, French, Italian versions are available.

System requirements:

Essential: IBM-compatible PC with Pentium 75 CPU, 12 MB memory (RAM), Hard Disk (30 MB of free disk space for the program and databases), VGA graphics, Windows 95/98/NT/2000, CD-ROM drive, Microsoft-compatible mouse.

Recommended: P2 CPU, 32 MB or more RAM, Super VGA graphics with 256 colors and 1024x768 screen mode.