List of people who have beaten Alexander Alekhine in chess
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The following people have beaten Alexander Alekhine
(31 October 1892 – 24 March 1946) in a regular game of chess – not a game played at odds. Alekhine was considered to be one of the best players in history (Comparing top chess players throughout history).
Games Alekhine lost when he was younger than sixteen years old are marked (U16).
Victor Berger
, Margate 1937
Ossip Bernstein
, Paris 1933 (match, +1=2−1)
Arturo Bonet
, Gijon 1945
Efim Bogoljubow
, St. Petersburg 1913/14, Triberg 1921 ("secret match", +1=2−1), Margate 1923, Wiesbaden−Berlin−Amsterdam 1929 (World Championship match, +5=9−11), Berne 1932, Germany 1934 (World Championship match, +3=15−8), Bad Nauheim−Stuttgart−Garmisch 1937 (Quadrangular), Salzburg 1942, Warsaw−Lublin−Kraków 1942, Warsaw 1943 (match, +1=0−1)
Mikhail Botvinnik
, The Netherlands (AVRO) 1938
Amos Burn
, Carlsbad 1911
José Raúl Capablanca
, St. Petersburg 1913 (exhibition match, +2=0−0), St. Petersburg 1914 (two games), New York 1927, Buenos Aires 1927 (World Championship match, +3=25−6), Nottingham 1936
Arthur Dake
, Pasadena 1932
Dawid Daniuszewski
, St. Petersburg 1909
Oldřich Duras
, Hamburg 1910
Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky
, St. Petersburg 1912 (exhibition game)
Max Euwe
, Amsterdam 1926/27 (match, +2=5−3), Zurich 1934, The Netherlands 1935 (World Championship match, +9=13−8), Amsterdam 1936, Bad Nauheim−Stuttgart−Garmisch 1937 (Quadrangular), The Netherlands 1937 (World Championship match, +4=11−10), The Hague 1937 (exhibition match, +2=2−1)
Alexander Evensohn
, Kiev 1916 (match, +1=0−2)
Hans Fahrni
(U16), Munich 1908 (match, +1=1−1)
Reuben Fine
, Margate 1937, The Netherlands (AVRO) 1938 (two games)
Leó Forgács
, Hamburg 1910
Sergey von Freymann
, Vilna 1912
Joel Fridlizius
, Stockholm 1912
Karl Gilg
, Semmering 1926
Bernhard Gregory
, St. Petersburg 1913/14
Ernst Grünfeld
, Vienna 1922
Dawid Janowski
, Scheveningen 1913, Mannheim 1914
Paul Johner
, Carlsbad 1911
Klaus Junge
, Salzburg 1942
Paul Keres
, Margate 1937
Boris Koyalovich
, St. Petersburg 1912
Emanuel Lasker
, St. Petersburg 1914 (two games), New York 1924
Paul Saladin Leonhardt, Carlsbad 1911
Grigory Levenfish
, St. Petersburg 1913
Stepan Levitsky
, Vilna 1912, St. Petersburg 1913 (match, +3=0−7)
F. López Núñez, Almeria 1945
Moishe Lowtzky
, St. Petersburg 1913/14
Francisco Lupi
, Caceres 1945, Estoril 1946 (match, +1=1−2)
Hermanis Matisons
, Prague 1931 (4th Chess Olympiad)
Antonio Medina
, Gijon 1945
Walter Michel
, Berne 1925 (Quadrangular)
Vladas Mikėnas
, Kemeri 1937
Oskar Naegeli
, Berne 1932 (Quadrangular)
Vladimir Nenarokov
(U16), Moscow 1908 (match, +3=0−0)
M. Neumann (U16), Düsseldorf 1908
Bjørn Nielsen
, Munich 1941
Aron Nimzowitsch
, St. Petersburg 1914 (play-off match, +1=0−1), Semmering 1926, New York 1927
Karel Opočenský
, Munich 1941
Nikolay Pavlov-Pianov
, Moscow 1920 (match, +1=0−1)
Julius Perlis
, Carlsbad 1911
Vladimirs Petrovs
, Margate 1938
Abram Rabinovich
, Carlsbad 1911
Ilya Rabinovich
, St. Petersburg 1914 (exhibition game)
Ludwig Rellstab
, Munich 1942
Samuel Reshevsky
, Nottingham 1936
Richard Réti
, New York 1924
Peter Romanovsky
, St. Petersburg 1909
Akiba Rubinstein
, Moscow 1909 (exhibition game), Carlsbad 1911, Vilna 1912, Vienna 1922
Carl Schlechter
, Hamburg 1910, Carlsbad 1911
Vasily Osipovich Smyslov
, St. Petersburg 1912
Rudolf Spielmann
, Carlsbad 1911, Carlsbad 1923
Siegbert Tarrasch
, Hamburg 1910
Savielly Tartakower
, Bad Pistyan 1922, Folkestone 1933 (5th Chess Olympiad)
Richard Teichmann
, Carlsbad 1911, Berlin 1921 (match, +2=2−2)
Karel Treybal
, Carlsbad 1923
Milan Vidmar
, Semmering 1926
A. Wiarda (U16), Düsseldorf 1908
Heinrich Wolf
, Vienna 1922
Frederick Yates
, Hastings 1922, Carlsbad 1923
Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...
(31 October 1892 – 24 March 1946) in a regular game of chess – not a game played at odds. Alekhine was considered to be one of the best players in history (Comparing top chess players throughout history).
Games Alekhine lost when he was younger than sixteen years old are marked (U16).
Tournament and match play
Simon Alapin, Vilna 1912Victor Berger
Victor Buerger
Victor Buerger was a Ukrainian–British chess player.Victor Berger was a member of London Chess Club....
, Margate 1937
Ossip Bernstein
Ossip Bernstein
Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein was a Russian chess grandmaster and a financial lawyer.-Biography:...
, Paris 1933 (match, +1=2−1)
Arturo Bonet
Arturo Bonet
Arturo Bonet Polledo a Spanish chess master.Bonet lived in Asturias, an autonomous community within the kingdom of Spain. In 1936, he participated in Barcelona la Olimpiada Obrera, as a replicate of The 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, organised by Nazis.He tied for 6-7th at Gijón 1944 ,took 7th...
, Gijon 1945
Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov was a Russo-German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.-Early career:...
, St. Petersburg 1913/14, Triberg 1921 ("secret match", +1=2−1), Margate 1923, Wiesbaden−Berlin−Amsterdam 1929 (World Championship match, +5=9−11), Berne 1932, Germany 1934 (World Championship match, +3=15−8), Bad Nauheim−Stuttgart−Garmisch 1937 (Quadrangular), Salzburg 1942, Warsaw−Lublin−Kraków 1942, Warsaw 1943 (match, +1=0−1)
Mikhail Botvinnik
Mikhail Botvinnik
Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik, Ph.D. was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and three-time World Chess Champion. Working as an electrical engineer and computer scientist at the same time, he was one of the very few famous chess players who achieved distinction in another career while...
, The Netherlands (AVRO) 1938
Amos Burn
Amos Burn
Amos Burn was an English chess player, one of the world's leading players at the end of the 19th century, and a chess writer....
, Carlsbad 1911
José Raúl Capablanca
José Raúl Capablanca
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. One of the greatest players of all time, he was renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play...
, St. Petersburg 1913 (exhibition match, +2=0−0), St. Petersburg 1914 (two games), New York 1927, Buenos Aires 1927 (World Championship match, +3=25−6), Nottingham 1936
Arthur Dake
Arthur Dake
Arthur Dake was an American chess master. He was born in Portland, Oregon and died in Reno, Nevada....
, Pasadena 1932
Dawid Daniuszewski
Dawid Daniuszewski
Dawid Daniuszewski was a Polish chess master.-Biography:In 1906, he finished 2nd, behind Akiba Rubinstein, in Łódź. In 1907, he again finished 2nd, behind Rubinstein, and ahead of Gersz Rotlewi and Gersz Salwe in Łódź . In 1907/08, he took 10th in Łódź...
, St. Petersburg 1909
Oldřich Duras
Oldrich Duras
Oldřich Duras was a leading Czech chess master of the early 20th century...
, Hamburg 1910
Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky
Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky
Fedor Ivanovich Duz–Khotimirsky was a Ukrainian chess master....
, St. Petersburg 1912 (exhibition game)
Max Euwe
Max Euwe
Machgielis Euwe was a Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, and author. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion . Euwe also served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978.- Early years :Euwe was born in Watergraafsmeer, near Amsterdam...
, Amsterdam 1926/27 (match, +2=5−3), Zurich 1934, The Netherlands 1935 (World Championship match, +9=13−8), Amsterdam 1936, Bad Nauheim−Stuttgart−Garmisch 1937 (Quadrangular), The Netherlands 1937 (World Championship match, +4=11−10), The Hague 1937 (exhibition match, +2=2−1)
Alexander Evensohn
Alexander Evensohn
Alexandr Moyseyevich Evensohn was a Russian chess master.-Biography:In 1909, Evensohn took 7th at Kiev. The event was won by Nikolaev. In 1911, he took 3rd, behind Efim Bogoljubow and Izbinsky, at Kiev. In 1911, he took 4th at Kiev. The event was won by Fedor Bohatirchuk...
, Kiev 1916 (match, +1=0−2)
Hans Fahrni
Hans Fahrni
Hans Fahrni was a Swiss chess master.In 1892 he was joint Swiss chess champion ....
(U16), Munich 1908 (match, +1=1−1)
Reuben Fine
Reuben Fine
Reuben Fine was one of the strongest chess players in the world from the early 1930s through the 1940s, an International Grandmaster, psychologist, university professor, and author of many books on both chess and psychology.Fine won five medals in three chess Olympiads. Fine won the U.S...
, Margate 1937, The Netherlands (AVRO) 1938 (two games)
Leó Forgács
Leó Forgács
Leó Forgács was a Hungarian chess player.-Biography:...
, Hamburg 1910
Sergey von Freymann
Sergey von Freymann
Sergey von Freymann was a Russian-Uzbekistani chess master.In 1906, von Freymann took 2nd, behind Semyon Alapin, in Sankt Petersburg. In 1907, he tied for 6-7th in St Petersburg . In 1907/08, he took 5th in Lodz . The event was won by Akiba Rubinstein...
, Vilna 1912
Joel Fridlizius
Joel Fridlizius
Joel Fridlizius was a Swedish chess master.He took 2nd, behind Jorgen Moeller, at Gothenburg 1901 , won ahead of Gustaf Nyholm at Gothenburg 1909 , and tied for 7-9th but won games from Alexander Alekhine and Rudolf Spielmann at Stockholm 1912 .-External links:...
, Stockholm 1912
Karl Gilg
Karl Gilg
Karl Gilg was a German chess International Master from Czechoslovakia.Gilg played for Czechoslovakia in several Chess Olympiads....
, Semmering 1926
Bernhard Gregory
Bernhard Gregory
Bernhard Gregory was an Estonian chess master.In 1902, he tied for 16-19th in Hannover . In 1903/04, he tied for 9-10th in Berlin...
, St. Petersburg 1913/14
Ernst Grünfeld
Ernst Grünfeld
----Ernst Franz Grünfeld , an Austrian grandmaster and writer specializing in opening theory, was for a brief period after the First World War one of the strongest chess players in the world....
, Vienna 1922
Dawid Janowski
Dawid Janowski
Dawid Markelowicz Janowski was a leading Polish chess master and subsequent French citizen....
, Scheveningen 1913, Mannheim 1914
Paul Johner
Paul Johner
Paul Johner was a Swiss chess master.A noted musician , elder brother of Hans Johner, he won the Swiss Championship in 1907 , 1908 , 1925, 1928 , 1930 and 1932 .He played in many international tournaments...
, Carlsbad 1911
Klaus Junge
Klaus Junge
Klaus Junge was one of the youngest German chess masters.-Biography:...
, Salzburg 1942
Paul Keres
Paul Keres
Paul Keres , was an Estonian chess grandmaster, and a renowned chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s....
, Margate 1937
Boris Koyalovich
Boris Koyalovich
Boris Mikhailovich Koyalovich was a Russian mathematician and chess master....
, St. Petersburg 1912
Emanuel Lasker
Emanuel Lasker
Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years...
, St. Petersburg 1914 (two games), New York 1924
Paul Saladin Leonhardt, Carlsbad 1911
Grigory Levenfish
Grigory Levenfish
Grigory Yakovlevich Levenfish was a leading Jewish Russian chess grandmaster of the 1920s and 1930s. He was twice Soviet champion - in 1934 and 1937. In 1937 he tied a match against future world champion Mikhail Botvinnik...
, St. Petersburg 1913
Stepan Levitsky
Stepan Levitsky
Stepan Levitsky was a Russian chess master and national chess champion....
, Vilna 1912, St. Petersburg 1913 (match, +3=0−7)
F. López Núñez, Almeria 1945
Moishe Lowtzky
Moishe Lowtzky
-Biography:He was born into a Jewish family in Ukraine. In 1903, Lowtzky tied for 6-7th with Eugene Znosko-Borovsky in Kiev . The event was won by Mikhail Chigorin. In 1903, he took 4th in Dresden . In 1904, he tied for 2nd-3rd in Coburg . In 1910, he tied for 1st with Thoenes in Hamburg...
, St. Petersburg 1913/14
Francisco Lupi
Francisco Lupi
Francisco Lupi was a Portuguese chess master.In January 1940, he lost a game to Alexander Alekhine in Estoril . In February 1940, he drew a game with Alekhine in Estoril .Lupi was a noted Portuguese player during World War II...
, Caceres 1945, Estoril 1946 (match, +1=1−2)
Hermanis Matisons
Hermanis Matisons
Hermanis Matisons , , was a Latvian chess player and one of world's most highly regarded chess masters in the early 1930s. He was also a leading endgame composer...
, Prague 1931 (4th Chess Olympiad)
Antonio Medina
Antonio Medina
Jose Antonio Colon Medina was a Spanish chess master.He was seven times Spanish Champion , and trice Catalan Champion . He also thrice won Venezuelan Chess Championship in 1955, 1956 and 1958...
, Gijon 1945
Walter Michel
Walter Michel
Walter Michel was a Swiss chess master.He took 4th at Berne 1925 , won the Swiss Championship at Geneva 1926, took 17th at Semmering 1926 , and took 4th at Le Pont .Michel played for Switzerland in Chess Olympiads:* In 1927 at reserve board in the 1st Chess...
, Berne 1925 (Quadrangular)
Vladas Mikėnas
Vladas Mikenas
Vladas Mikėnas was a Lithuanian International Master of chess, an Honorary Grandmaster, and a journalist.- Early life :Vladas Mikėnas played for Lithuania at first board in five official and one unofficial Chess Olympiads....
, Kemeri 1937
Oskar Naegeli
Oskar Naegeli
Prof. Dr. Oskar Naegeli , was a Swiss dermatologist and chess master. He represented Switzerland at the Chess Olympiads in 1927, 1928, 1931 and 1935, as well as at the unofficial Olympiad in 1936 at Munich.Naegeli won twice Swiss Chess Championship...
, Berne 1932 (Quadrangular)
Vladimir Nenarokov
Vladimir Nenarokov
Vladimir Ivanovich Nenarokov was a Russian chess master and theoretician. Born in Moscow, he was one of the strongest masters in his home town around 1900....
(U16), Moscow 1908 (match, +3=0−0)
M. Neumann (U16), Düsseldorf 1908
Bjørn Nielsen
Bjørn Nielsen
Bjørn Nielsen was a Danish chess master.He played for Denmark in Chess Olympiads:* In 1933, at fourth board in 5th Olympiad in Folkestone ;...
, Munich 1941
Aron Nimzowitsch
Aron Nimzowitsch
Aron Nimzowitsch was a Russian-born Danish unofficial chess grandmaster and a very influential chess writer...
, St. Petersburg 1914 (play-off match, +1=0−1), Semmering 1926, New York 1927
Karel Opočenský
Karel Opocenský
Karel Opočenský was a Czech chess master.-Biography:He was four-time Czech Champion . In 1919, he took 2nd, behind František Schubert, in Prague . In 1925, he tied for 3rd-4th in Paris . In 1927, he won in Česke Budějovice...
, Munich 1941
Nikolay Pavlov-Pianov
Nikolay Pavlov-Pianov
Nikolay M. Pavlov-Pianov was a Russian chess master.Before World War I, he tied for 5–6th place at Moscow 1911 , and shared 1st prize with Alexey Selezniev at Moscow 1913....
, Moscow 1920 (match, +1=0−1)
Julius Perlis
Julius Perlis
Julius Perlis was an Austrian chess player.-Biography:...
, Carlsbad 1911
Vladimirs Petrovs
Vladimirs Petrovs
Vladimirs Petrovs or Vladimir Petrov was a Latvian chess master.He was born in Riga, Latvia. Though he learned the game of chess relatively late, at age thirteen, Petrovs made rapid progress. By 1926, at age 19, he won the Riga Championship and finish third in the national championship...
, Margate 1938
Abram Rabinovich
Abram Rabinovich
Abram Rabinovich was a Lithuanian–Russian chess master.-Biography:...
, Carlsbad 1911
Ilya Rabinovich
Ilya Rabinovich
Ilya Rabinovich was a Russian chess master.-Biography:In 1911 Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich tied for 1st with Platz in Saint Petersburg...
, St. Petersburg 1914 (exhibition game)
Ludwig Rellstab
Ludwig Rellstab (chess player)
Ludwig Rellstab was a German chess master.He was German Champion, winning at Bad Oeynhausen 1942. He took 8th in the European Championship at Munich 1942 . In 1943, he took 6th in Salzburg...
, Munich 1942
Samuel Reshevsky
Samuel Reshevsky
Samuel "Sammy" Herman Reshevsky was a famous chess prodigy and later a leading American chess Grandmaster...
, Nottingham 1936
Richard Réti
Richard Réti
Réti composed one of the most famous chess studies, shown in this diagram. It was published in Ostrauer Morgenzeitung 4 December 1921. It seems impossible for the white king to catch the advanced black pawn, while the white pawn can be easily stopped by the black king...
, New York 1924
Peter Romanovsky
Peter Romanovsky
Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky was a Russian chess International Master, International Arbiter, and author.-Biography:At the beginning of his career in Sankt Petersburg, he shared fourth place in 1908 , tied for 10-11th in 1909 , took second place behind Smorodsky in 1913, and shared first with...
, St. Petersburg 1909
Akiba Rubinstein
Akiba Rubinstein
Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein was a famous Polish chess Grandmaster at the beginning of the 20th century. He was scheduled to play a match with Emanuel Lasker for the world championship in 1914, but it was cancelled because of the outbreak of World War I...
, Moscow 1909 (exhibition game), Carlsbad 1911, Vilna 1912, Vienna 1922
Carl Schlechter
Carl Schlechter
Carl Schlechter was a leading Austrian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker.-Early life:...
, Hamburg 1910, Carlsbad 1911
Vasily Osipovich Smyslov
Vasily Osipovich Smyslov
Vasily Osipovich Smyslov was a Russian chess master, and the father of Vasily Vasilievich Smyslov, World Chess Champion from 1957–8....
, St. Petersburg 1912
Rudolf Spielmann
Rudolf Spielmann
Rudolf Spielmann was an Austrian-Jewish chess player of the romantic school, and chess writer.-Career:He was a lawyer but never worked as one....
, Carlsbad 1911, Carlsbad 1923
Siegbert Tarrasch
Siegbert Tarrasch
Siegbert Tarrasch was one of the strongest chess players and most influential chess teachers of the late 19th century and early 20th century....
, Hamburg 1910
Savielly Tartakower
Savielly Tartakower
Ksawery Tartakower was a leading Polish and French chess Grandmaster. He was also a leading chess journalist of the 1920s and 30s...
, Bad Pistyan 1922, Folkestone 1933 (5th Chess Olympiad)
Richard Teichmann
Richard Teichmann
Richard Teichmann was a German chess master.He was known as "Richard the Fifth" because he often finished in fifth place in tournaments. But in Karlsbad 1911, he scored a convincing win, crushing Akiba Rubinstein and Carl Schlechter with the same line of the Ruy Lopez...
, Carlsbad 1911, Berlin 1921 (match, +2=2−2)
Karel Treybal
Karel Treybal
Karel Treybal was a prominent Czech chess player of the early twentieth century.Treybal was born in Kotopeky, a village to the southwest of Prague in central Bohemia. He trained as a lawyer and became chairman of the district court in Velvary, a small town on the opposite side of Prague...
, Carlsbad 1923
Milan Vidmar
Milan Vidmar
Milan Vidmar was a Slovene electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, philosopher, and writer. He was a specialist in power transformers and transmission of electric current.- Biography :...
, Semmering 1926
A. Wiarda (U16), Düsseldorf 1908
Heinrich Wolf
Heinrich Wolf
Heinrich Wolf was an Austrian chess master.-Biography:In 1899, he tied for 5-7th in Vienna . In 1900 he tied for 7-10th in Munich...
, Vienna 1922
Frederick Yates
Frederick Yates
Frederick Dewhurst Yates was an English chess master who won the British Chess Championship on six occasions...
, Hastings 1922, Carlsbad 1923