World champion from 1927 to 1935 and again from 1937 to 1946, Alexander Alexandrovitch Alekhine is considered one of the greatest chess players of all time. Max Euwe considered him the greatest attacking player of all time. A master of all phases of the game, Alekhine conceived his games in a rich and immensely complex way. As Bobby Fischer wrote, “Alekhine plays gigantic conceptions, full of shocking and unprecedented ideas.” This unique book reproduces over a hundred of Alekhine’s greatest games, played between 1908 and 1923, accompanied by Alekhine’s own analysis and commentary. Alekhine won the world chess title in the famous match in Buenos Aires in 1927, by stunningly defeating José Raúl Capablanca, then known as the “Chess Machine.” This book presents Alekhine's best games from the beginning of his career in 1908 to 1923, with games and tournaments in which the best players in the world at the time participated. Alekhine analyzed these games in detail, leaving behind lessons that have become true treasures. Therefore, this book is indispensable in the library of all who practice and enjoy the game of chess. "From my earliest years I was enormously influenced by Alekhine's play and fascinated by the unprecedented feat of his victory in the match of 1927. I admired the refinement of his ideas and tried, as far as possible, to emulate his furious attacking style, with its sudden and thunderous sacrifices." Garry Kasparov This book contains an appendix with the biographical and technical data of all of Alekhine's opponents.