Baden Baden 1925 International Chess Tournament: The Arrival of Hypermodern Chess

Notes by Grekov and a host of great annotators including Lasker, Alekhine, Tartakower, Rabinovich, Burn, GrŸnfeld, Grigoriev, Levenfish, Romanovsky, Sozin, a.o., 382 pages. A tournament book worthy of this great event which was one of Alekhine's finest performances. Easily one of the best tournament books ever published in English with a cornucopia of great games from the golden age of hypermodern chess. Also included is a full translation of Alekhine's booklet (originally published in French) on the Theoretical Value of the Openings at Baden Baden 1925, along with surveys of the tournament by Tarrasch, Kmoch, Tartakower, Helms, Goetz, and Kagan. Won by Alekhine ahead of Rubinstein, SŠmisch, Bogoljubow, Marshall, Tartakover...