Editing Alexander Alekhine (section)

===Influence on the game===
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Several [[chess opening|openings]] and opening variations are named after Alekhine. In addition to the well-known [[Alekhine's Defence]] (1.e4 Nf6) and the Albin-Chatard-Alekhine Attack in the "orthodox" Paulsen variation of the [[French Defense]],<ref name="FineIdeasBehindOpenings">Fine 1943</ref> there are Alekhine Variations in: the [[Budapest Gambit]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.bozon/budapest.htm |title=Budapest Gambit |author=Adam Bozon |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805061337/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.bozon/budapest.htm |archive-date=2011-08-05 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.markalowery.net/Chess/ECO-List/ECO_A00-A99_Text.html |title=ECO Information and Index: A00-A99 |author=Mark Lowery |access-date=2009-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928104209/http://www.markalowery.net/Chess/ECO-List/ECO_A00-A99_Text.html |archive-date=2011-09-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref> the [[Vienna Game]], the Exchange Variation of the [[Ruy Lopez]], the Winawer Variation of the French Defense; the Dragon Variation of the [[Sicilian Defense]], the [[Queen's Gambit Accepted]], the [[Slav Defense]], the [[Queen's Pawn Game]], the [[Catalan Opening]] and the [[Dutch Defense]] (where three different lines bear his name).<ref name="ChessOpsFullGroupListOpenings">{{cite web |url=http://www.eudesign.com/chessops/ch-list.htm |title=ChessOps - Full Group-List of Openings, Defences, Gambits and Variations |access-date=2008-05-23 |archive-date=2011-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721161926/http://www.eudesign.com/chessops/ch-list.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Irving Chernev]] commented, "The openings consist of Alekhine's games, with a few variations."<ref>{{cite book |last=Chernev |first=I. |title=Twelve Great Chess Players and Their Best Games |publisher=Dover Publications |year=1995 |pages=163–64 |chapter=Alekhine |isbn=978-0-486-28674-7 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0k7DtVTRvdUC&q=capablanca+chess+record%22without+losing%22&pg=PA164 |access-date=2009-08-14 |archive-date=2021-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029220632/https://books.google.com/books?id=0k7DtVTRvdUC&q=capablanca+chess+record%22without+losing%22&pg=PA164 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Alekhine also composed a few [[endgame studies]], one of which is shown in the diagram, a miniature (a study with a maximum of seven pieces).<ref name="vanDerHeijdenAlekhineMiniEndgameStudy">Harold van der Heijden endgame study database (2005).</ref>

Alekhine wrote over twenty books on chess, mostly annotated editions of the games in a major match or tournament, plus collections of his best games between 1908 and 1937.<ref name="WallAlekineBooks">{{cite web|author=Wall, W.|title=Alekhine's Writings|url=http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/alekbook.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026151322/http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/alekbook.htm|archive-date=2009-10-26|access-date=2008-05-20}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|failed=y|date=December 2013}} Unlike [[Wilhelm Steinitz]], Emanuel Lasker, Capablanca and Euwe, he wrote no books that explained his ideas about the game or showed beginners how to improve their play.<ref name="compulsivereaderReview107GreatChessBattles">{{cite web |url=http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1830 |title=A review of 107 Great Chess Battles 1939&ndash;1945 by Alexander Alekhine |author=Kane, P. |access-date=2008-05-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101022004614/http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1830 |archive-date=October 22, 2010}}</ref> His books appeal to expert players rather than beginners:<ref name="Fine1952WorldsGreatChessGames"/> they contain many long analyses of variations in critical positions, and "singularities and exceptions were his forte, not rules and simplifications".<ref name="compulsivereaderReview107GreatChessBattles"/>

Although Alekhine was declared an enemy of the Soviet Union after his anti-Bolshevik statement in 1928,<ref name="chessarchAlexey"/><ref name="KotovAlekhine" /> he was gradually rehabilitated by the Soviet chess elite following his death in 1946. [[Alexander Kotov]]'s research on Alekhine's games and career, culminating in a biography, ''Alexander Alekhine'', led to a Soviet series of Alekhine Memorial tournaments. The first of these, at Moscow 1956, was won jointly by Botvinnik and [[Vasily Smyslov]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://storiascacchi.altervista.org/storiascacchi/tornei/1950-59/1956mosca.htm|title=Mosca 1956 Aljechin Memorial|last=Sericano|first=Claudio|website=La grande storia degli scacchi|language=it|access-date=2019-11-19|archive-date=2016-04-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412220148/http://storiascacchi.altervista.org/storiascacchi/tornei/1950-59/1956mosca.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> In their book ''The Soviet School of Chess'' Kotov and [[Mikhail Yudovich|Yudovich]] devoted a chapter to Alekhine, called him "Russia's greatest player" and praised his capacity for seizing the initiative by concrete tactical play in the opening.<ref name="KotovYudovichSovietSchool">Kotov 1958</ref> Botvinnik wrote that the Soviet School of chess learned from Alekhine's fighting qualities, capacity for self-criticism and combinative vision.<ref name="Botvinnik100SelectedGames">Botvinnik 1951</ref> Alekhine had written that success in chess required "Firstly, self-knowledge; secondly, a firm comprehension of my opponent's strength and weakness; thirdly, a higher aim&nbsp;–&nbsp;... artistic and scientific accomplishments which accord our chess equal rank with other arts."<ref name="AlekhineNYTimes8Sep1929">{{Cite journal |journal=The New York Times |date=September 8, 1929 |author=Alekhine, A. |url=http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/seven.html |title=New York Times |access-date=2008-05-23 |archive-date=2008-03-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080317072353/http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/seven.html |url-status=live }}</ref>