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==Summary of results in competitions== ===Tournament results=== Here are Alekhine's placings and scores in tournaments:<ref name="KhalifmanAlekhine1935To1946"/><ref name="AlekhineMyBestGames1908to1937">Alekhine 1985</ref><ref name="MarshallElectronicArchiveTournamentRecord">{{cite web |last1=Da Nobrega |first1=A.W. |last2=Goeller |first2=M. |title=Frank James Marshall: Tournament and Match Record |url=http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/marshall/tournaments/index.html |url-status=live |publisher=The Frank James Marshall Electronic Archive and Museum |year=2002 |access-date=2008-05-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704144338/http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/marshall/tournaments/index.html |archive-date=4 July 2008}}</ref><ref name="ccDemonAlekhine">{{cite web |url=http://www.chessclub.demon.co.uk/culture/worldchampions/alekhine/alekhine.htm#Match/%20Tournament%20History |title=Alekhine's Results at www.chessclub.demon.co.uk |publisher=chessclub.demon.co.uk |access-date=2008-05-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509101348/http://www.chessclub.demon.co.uk/culture/worldchampions/alekhine/alekhine.htm#Match/%20Tournament%20History |archive-date=9 May 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/PlayerProfile.asp?Params=199510SSSSS3S002138000000141000000000000010100 |title=Alekhine's results at chessmetrics.com |access-date=2008-05-23 |archive-date=2012-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502184154/http://chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/PlayerProfile.asp?Params=199510SSSSS3S002138000000141000000000000010100 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/index.htm |title=La grande storia degli scacchi |access-date=2008-05-23 |archive-date=2008-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080106094343/http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/index.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[http://www.geocities.com/al2055Km/index.html RUSBASE]. 2009-10-24.</ref> * Under score, + games won, − games lost, = games drawn {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center; margin:1em auto 1em auto;" |- ! Date !! Location !! Place !! class="unsortable" colspan="2"|Score !! class="unsortable"|Notes |- | 1907 || align=left|Moscow || 11–13 || 5½/15 || +5−9=1 | align=left |his brother [[Alexei Alekhine]] tied for 4–6th |- | 1908 || align=left|Moscow || 1st || ? || ? | align=left | Moscow Chess Club Spring Tournament<ref>''Alexander Alekhine chess games'' gives four games won by Alekhine and published in 1938, the authors write: {{blockquote|Alekhine won this event, but neither the detailed results or the complete list of participants is known.}}</ref> |- | 1908 || align=left|[[Düsseldorf]] || 3–4 || 9/13 || +8−3=2 | align=left | 16th [[DSB Congress]], A Tournament |- | 1908/09 || align=left|Moscow || 1st || 6½/9 || +5−1=3 | align=left | Moscow Chess Club Autumn Tournament |- | 1909 || align=left| [[Saint Petersburg]] || 1st || 13/16 || +12−2=2 | align=left | All-Russian Amateur Tournament |- | 1910 || align=left|[[Hamburg]] || 7–8 || 8½/16 || +5−4=7 | align=left | 17th [[DSB Congress]], [[Carl Schlechter|Schlechter]] won |- | 1911 || align=left|[[Cologne]] || 1st || 3/3 || +3−0=0 | align=left|Quadrangular |- | 1911 || align=left|[[Karlovy Vary|Carlsbad]] || 8–9 || 13½/25 || +11−9=5 | align=left |[[Richard Teichmann|Teichmann]] won |- | 1912 || align=left|[[Saint Petersburg]] || 1–2 || 8/9 || +8-1=0 | align=left |First Winter Tournament, lost a game to [[Vasily Osipovich Smyslov]] |- | 1912 || align=left|[[Saint Petersburg]] || 1st || 7/9 || +6−1=2 ? | align=left |Second Winter Tournament, lost a game to [[Boris Koyalovich]] |- | 1912 || align=left|[[Stockholm]] || 1st || 8½/10 || +8−1=1 | align=left| 8th [[Nordic Chess Championship|Nordic Championship]], ahead of [[Rudolf Spielmann|Spielmann]] |- | 1912 || align=left|[[Vilnius]] || 6–7 || 8½/18 || +7−8=3 | align=left | 7th [[Russian Chess Championship|Russian Championship]] (All-Russian Masters' Tournament), [[Akiba Rubinstein|Rubinstein]] won |- | 1913 || align=left|[[Saint Petersburg]] || 1–2 || 2/3 || +2−1=0 | align=left | Quadrangular, tied with [[Grigory Levenfish|Levenfish]] |- | 1913 || align=left|[[Scheveningen]] || 1st || 11½/13 || +11−1=1 | align=left|ahead of [[Dawid Janowski|Janowski]] |- | 1913/14 || align=left|[[Saint Petersburg]] || 1–2 || 13½/17 || +13−3=1 | align=left | 8th [[Russian Chess Championship|Russian Championship]] (All-Russian Masters' Tournament), tied with [[Aron Nimzowitsch|Nimzowitsch]] |- | 1914 || align=left|[[Saint Petersburg]] || 3rd || 10/18 || +6−4=8 | align=left | [[Emanuel Lasker|Lasker]] 13½, [[José Raúl Capablanca|Capablanca]] 13, Alekhine 10, [[Siegbert Tarrasch|Tarrasch]] 8½, [[Frank Marshall (chess player)|Marshall]] 8 |- | 1914 || align=left|Paris || 1–2|| 2½/3 || +2−0=1 | align=left|Cafe Continental Quadrangular, tied with [[Frank Marshall (chess player)|Marshall]], third [[André Muffang|Muffang]], fourth [[Hallegua (chess player)|Hallegua]] |- | 1914 || align=left|[[Mannheim]] || leading || 9½/11 || +9−1=1 | align=left | 19th [[DSB Congress]], interrupted by the start of World War I |- | 1915 || align=left|Moscow || 1st || 10½/11 || +10−0=1 | align=left | Moscow Chess Club Championship |- | 1919/20 || align=left|Moscow || 1st || 11/11 || +11−0=0 | align=left | [[Moscow City Chess Championship|Moscow City Championship]], not declared Moscow Champion because he was not a resident of Moscow |- | 1920 || align=left|Moscow || 1st || 12/15 || +9−0=6 | align=left|later recognised as the 1st [[USSR Chess Championship|USSR Championship]] |- | 1921 || align=left|[[Triberg]] || 1st || 7/8 || +6−0=2 | align=left|ahead of [[Efim Bogoljubov|Bogoljubov]] |- | 1921 || align=left|[[Budapest]] || 1st || 8½/11 || +6−0=5 | align=left|ahead of [[Ernst Grünfeld|Grünfeld]] |- | 1921 || align=left|[[The Hague]] || 1st || 8/9 || +7−0=2 | align=left|ahead of [[Savielly Tartakower|Tartakower]] |- | 1922 || align=left|[[Pistyan]] || 2–3 || 14½/18 || +12−1=5 | align=left|tied with [[Rudolf Spielmann|Spielmann]], behind [[Efim Bogoljubov|Bogoljubov]] |- | 1922 || align=left|London || 2nd || 11½/15 || +8−0=7 | align=left|[[José Raúl Capablanca|Capablanca]] 13, Alekhine 11½, [[Milan Vidmar|Vidmar]] 11, [[Akiba Rubinstein|Rubinstein]] 10½ |- | 1922 || align=left|[[Hastings International Chess Congress|Hastings]] || 1st || 7½/10 || +6−1=3 | align=left|[[Akiba Rubinstein|Rubinstein]] 7, [[Efim Bogoljubov|Bogoljubov]] and [[George Alan Thomas|Thomas]] 4½, [[Siegbert Tarrasch|Tarrasch]] 4, [[Frederick Yates (chess player)|Yates]] 2½ |- | 1922 || align=left|[[Vienna]] || 3–6 || 9/14 || +7−3=4 | align=left|[[Akiba Rubinstein|Rubinstein]] won |- | 1923 || align=left|[[Margate]] || 2–5 || 4½/7 || +3−1=3 | align=left|[[Ernst Grünfeld|Grünfeld]] won |- | 1923 || align=left|[[Karlovy Vary|Carlsbad]] || 1–3 || 11½/17 || +9−3=5 | align=left|tied with [[Efim Bogoljubov|Bogoljubov]] and [[Géza Maróczy|Maróczy]] |- | 1923 || align=left|[[Portsmouth]] || 1st || 11½/12 || +11−0=1 | align=left|ahead of [[Árpád Vajda|Vajda]] |- | 1924 || align=left|[[New York City|New York]] || 3rd || 12/20 || +6−2=12 | align=left|[[Emanuel Lasker|Lasker]] 16, [[José Raúl Capablanca|Capablanca]] 14½, Alekhine 12, [[Frank Marshall (chess player)|Marshall]] 11, [[Richard Réti|Réti]] 10½. [[Géza Maróczy|Maróczy]] 10, [[Efim Bogoljubov|Bogoljubov]] 9½ |- | 1925 || align=left|Paris || 1st || 6½/8 || +5−0=3 | align=left|ahead of [[Savielly Tartakower|Tartakower]] |- | 1925 || align=left|[[Bern]] || 1st || 4/6 || +3−1=2 | align=left|Quadrangular |- | 1925 || align=left|[[Baden-Baden]] || 1st || 16/20 || +12−0=8 | align=left|ahead of [[Akiba Rubinstein|Rubinstein]] |- | 1925/26 || align=left|[[Hastings International Chess Congress|Hastings]] || 1–2 || 8½/9 || +8−0=1 | align=left|tied with [[Milan Vidmar|Vidmar]] |- | 1926 || align=left|[[Semmering, Austria|Semmering]] || 2nd || 12½/17 || +11−3=3 | align=left|[[Rudolf Spielmann|Spielmann]] won |- | 1926 || align=left|[[Dresden]] || 2nd || 7/9 || +5−0=4 | align=left|[[Aron Nimzowitsch|Nimzowitsch]] won |- | 1926 || align=left|[[Scarborough, North Yorkshire|Scarborough]] || 1st || 5½/6 || +5−0=1 | align=left|Alekhine won a play-off match against [[Edgar Colle|Colle]] 2–0 |- | 1926 || align=left|[[Birmingham]] || 1st || 5/5 || +5−0=0 | align=left|ahead of [[Eugene Znosko-Borovsky|Znosko-Borovsky]] |- | 1926 || align=left|[[Buenos Aires]] || 1st || 10/10 || +10−0=0 | align=left|ahead of [[Benito Villegas|Villegas]] and [[Rolando Illa|Illa]] |- | 1927 || align=left|[[New York City|New York]] || 2nd || 11½/20 || +5−2=13 | align=left|[[José Raúl Capablanca|Capablanca]] 14, Alekhine 11½, [[Aron Nimzowitsch|Nimzowitsch]] 10½, [[Milan Vidmar|Vidmar]] 10, [[Rudolph Spielmann|Spielmann]] 8, [[Frank Marshall (chess player)|Marshall]] 6 |- | 1927 || align=left|[[Kecskemét]] || 1st || 12/16 || +8−0=8 | align=left|ahead of [[Aron Nimzowitsch|Nimzowitsch]] and [[Lajos Steiner|Steiner]] |- | 1929 || align=left|[[Bradley Beach]] || 1st || 8½/9 || +8−0=1 | align=left|ahead of [[Lajos Steiner]] |- | 1930 || align=left|[[Sanremo|San Remo]] || 1st || 14/15 || +13−0=2 | align=left|[[Aron Nimzowitsch|Nimzowitsch]] 10½; [[Akiba Rubinstein|Rubinstein]] 10; [[Efim Bogoljubov|Bogoljubov]] 9½; [[Frederick Yates (chess player)|Yates]] 9 |- | 1931 || align=left|[[Nice]] || 1st || 6/8 || +4−0=4 | align=left|consultation tournament |- | 1931 || align=left|[[Bled]] || 1st || 20½/26 || +15−0=11 | align=left|[[Efim Bogoljubov|Bogoljubov]] 15; [[Aron Nimzowitsch|Nimzowitsch]] 14; [[Salo Flohr|Flohr]], [[Isaac Kashdan|Kashdan]], [[Gösta Stoltz|Stoltz]] and [[Milan Vidmar|Vidmar]] 13½ |- | 1932 || align=left|[[Bern]] || 1–3 || 2/3 || +2−1=0 | align=left | Quadrangular, tied with [[Erwin Voellmy|Voellmy]] and [[Oskar Naegeli|Naegeli]] |- | 1932 || align=left|[[Bern]] || 1st || 12½/15 || +11−1=3 | align=left|[[Swiss Chess Championship|Swiss Championship]] (title awarded to [[Hans Johner]] and [[Paul Johner]]) |- | 1932 || align=left|London || 1st || 9/11 || +7−0=4 | align=left|ahead of [[Salo Flohr|Flohr]] |- | 1932 || align=left|[[Pasadena, California|Pasadena]] || 1st || 8½/11 || +7−1=3 | align=left|ahead of [[Isaac Kashdan|Kashdan]] |- | 1932 || align=left|[[Mexico City]] || 1–2 || 8½/9 || +8−0=1 | align=left|tied with [[Isaac Kashdan|Kashdan]] |- | 1933 || align=left|Paris || 1st || 8/9 || +7−0=2 | align=left|ahead of [[Savielly Tartakower|Tartakower]] |- | 1933/34 || align=left|[[Hastings International Chess Congress|Hastings]] || 2nd || 6½/9 || +4−0=5 | align=left|[[Salo Flohr|Flohr]] 7, Alekhine and [[Andor Lilienthal]] 6½, [[Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander|C.H.O'D. Alexander]] and [[Erich Eliskases|Eliskases]] 5 |- | 1934 || align=left|[[Rotterdam]] || 1st || 3/3 || +3−0=0 | align=left | Quadrangular |- | 1934 || align=left|[[Zürich]] || 1st || 13/15 || +12−1=2 | align=left|[[Swiss Chess Championship|Swiss Championship]] (title awarded to [[Hans Johner]]) |- | 1935 || align=left|[[Örebro]] || 1st || 8½/9 || +8−0=1 | align=left|ahead of [[Erik Lundin|Lundin]] |- | 1936 || align=left|[[Bad Nauheim]] || 1–2 || 6½/9 || +4−0=5 | align=left|tied with [[Paul Keres|Keres]] |- | 1936 || align=left|[[Dresden]] || 1st || 6½/9 || +5−1=3 | align=left|ahead of [[Ludwig Engels|Engels]] |- | 1936 || align=left|[[Poděbrady]] || 2nd || 12½/17 || +8−0=9 | align=left|[[Salo Flohr|Flohr]] won |- | 1936 || align=left|[[Nottingham]] || 6th || 9/14 || +6−2=6 | align=left|[[Mikhail Botvinnik|Botvinnik]] and [[José Raúl Capablanca|Capablanca]] 10; [[Max Euwe|Euwe]], [[Reuben Fine|Fine]] and [[Samuel Reshevsky|Reshevsky]] 9½ |- | 1936 || align=left|[[Amsterdam]] || 3rd || 4½/7 || +3−1=3 | align=left|[[Max Euwe|Euwe]] and [[Reuben Fine|Fine]] won |- | 1936 || align=left|[[Amsterdam]] || 1–2 || 2½/3 || +2−0=1 | align=left | Quadrangular, tied with [[Salo Landau|Landau]] |- | 1936/37 || align=left|[[Hastings International Chess Congress|Hastings]] || 1st || 8/9 || +7−0=2 | align=left|[[Reuben Fine|Fine]] 7½, [[Erich Eliskases|Eliskases]] 5½, [[Milan Vidmar|Vidmar]] and [[Movsas Feigins|Feigins]] 4½ |- | 1937 || align=left|[[Margate]] || 3rd || 6/9 || +6−3=0 | align=left|tied for 1–2 were [[Paul Keres|Keres]] and [[Reuben Fine|Fine]] |- | 1937 || align=left|[[Kemeri]] || 4–5 || 11½/17 || +7−1=9 | align=left|tied for 1–3 were [[Salo Flohr|Flohr]], [[Vladimirs Petrovs|Petrovs]] and [[Samuel Reshevsky|Reshevsky]] |- | 1937 || align=left|[[Bad Nauheim]] || 2–3 || 3½/6 || +3−2=1 | align=left|Quadrangular, [[Max Euwe|Euwe]] won, the other players were [[Efim Bogoljubov|Bogoljubov]] and [[Fritz Sämisch|Sämisch]] |- | 1937 || align=left|[[Nice]] || 1st || 2½/3 || +2−0=1 | align=left|Quadrangular |- | 1938 || align=left|[[Montevideo]] || 1st || 13/15 || +11−0=4 | align=left|ahead of [[Carlos Guimard|Guimard]] |- | 1938 || align=left|[[Margate]] || 1st || 7/9 || +6−1=2 | align=left|ahead of [[Rudolf Spielmann|Spielmann]] |- | 1938 || align=left|Netherlands<br />(ten cities) || 4–6 || 7/14 || +3−3=8 | align=left|[[AVRO tournament]], [[Paul Keres|Keres]] and [[Reuben Fine|Fine]] 8½; [[Mikhail Botvinnik|Botvinnik]] 7½; Alekhine, [[Max Euwe|Euwe]] and [[Samuel Reshevsky|Reshevsky]] 7; [[José Raúl Capablanca|Capablanca]] 6 |- | 1939 || align=left|[[Montevideo]] || 1st || 7/7 || +7−0=0 | align=left|ahead of [[Harry Golombek|Golombek]] |- | 1939 || align=left|[[Caracas]] || 1st || 10/10 || +10−0=0 | |- | 1941 || align=left|[[Munich]] || 2–3 || 10½/15 || +8−2=5 | align=left|tied with [[Erik Lundin|Lundin]], behind [[Gosta Stoltz|Stoltz]] |- | 1941 || align=left|[[Kraków]], [[Warsaw]] || 1–2 || 8½/11 || +6−0=5 | align=left|tied with [[Paul Felix Schmidt|Schmidt]] |- | 1941 || align=left|[[Madrid]] || 1st || 5/5 || +5−0=0 | |- | 1942 || align=left|[[Salzburg]] || 1st || 7½/10 || +7−2=1 | align=left|ahead of [[Paul Keres|Keres]] |- | 1942 || align=left|[[Munich]] || 1st || 8½/11 || +7−1=3 | align=left|[[European Individual Chess Championship|1st European Championship]], ahead of [[Paul Keres|Keres]] |- | 1942 || align=left|[[Warsaw]], [[Lublin]], [[Kraków]] || 1st || 7½/11 || +6−1=3 | align=left|ahead of [[Klaus Junge|Junge]] |- | 1942 || align=left|[[Prague]] || 1–2 || 8½/11 || +6−0=5 | align=left|tied with [[Klaus Junge|Junge]] |- | 1943 || align=left|[[Prague]] || 1st || 17/19 || +15−0=4 | align=left|ahead of [[Paul Keres|Keres]] |- | 1943 || align=left|[[Salzburg]] || 1–2 || 7½/10 || +5−0=5 | align=left|tied with [[Paul Keres|Keres]] |- | 1944 || align=left|[[Gijón]] || 1st || 7½/8 || +7−0=1 | |- | 1945 || align=left|[[Madrid]] || 1st || 8½/9 || +8−0=1 | |- | 1945 || align=left|[[Gijón]] || 2–3 || 6½/9 || +6−2=1 | align=left |tied with [[Antonio Medina García|Medina]], behind [[Antonio Rico|Rico]] |- | 1945 || align=left|[[Sabadell]] || 1st || 7½/9 || +6−0=3 | |- | 1945 || align=left|[[Almeria]] || 1–2 || 5½/8 || +4−1=3 | align=left |tied with Lopez Nunez |- | 1945 || align=left|[[Melilla]] || 1st || 6½/7 || +6−0=1 | |- | 1945 || align=left|[[Cáceres, Spain|Caceres]] || 2nd || 3½/5 || +3−1=1 | align=left |[[Francisco Lupi|Lupi]] won |} ===Match results=== Here are Alekhine's results in matches:<ref name="AlekhineMyBestGames1908to1937"/><ref name="ccDemonAlekhine"/> * Under score, + games won, − games lost, = games drawn {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center; margin:1em auto 1em auto;" |- ! Date !! Opponent !! Result !! class="unsortable" | Location !! class="unsortable" colspan="2"|Score !! class="unsortable"|Notes |- | 1908 || [[Curt von Bardeleben]] || Won || Düsseldorf || 4½/5 || +4−0=1 || |- | 1908 || [[Hans Fahrni]] || Drew || Munich || 1½/3 || +1−1=1 || |- | 1908 || [[Benjamin Blumenfeld]] || Won || Moscow || 4½/5 || +4−0=1 || |- | 1908 || [[Vladimir Nenarokov]] || Lost || Moscow || 0/3 || +0−3=0 || |- | 1913 || [[Stepan Levitsky]] || Won || Saint Petersburg || 7/10 || +7−3=0 || |- | 1913 || [[Edward Lasker]] || Won || Paris, London || 3/3 || +3−0=0 || |- | 1913 || [[José Raúl Capablanca]] || Lost || Saint Petersburg || 0/2 || +0−2=0 || exhibition match |- | 1914 || [[Aron Nimzowitsch]] || Drew || Saint Petersburg || 1/2 || +1−1=0 || play-off match |- | 1916 || [[Alexander Evensohn]] || Won || Kiev || 2/3 || +2−1=0 || |- | 1918 || [[Abram Rabinovich]] || Won || Moscow || 3½/4 || +3−0=1 || |- | 1918 || [[Boris Verlinsky]] || Won || Odessa || 6/6 || +6−0=0 || |- | 1920 || [[Nikolay Pavlov-Pianov]] || Drew || Moscow || 1/2 || +1−1=0 || training match |- | 1921 || [[Nikolay Grigoriev]] || Won || Moscow || 4½/7 || +2−0=5 || training match |- | 1921 || [[Efim Bogoljubow]] || Drew || Triberg || 2/4 || +1−1=2 || "secret" training match |- | 1921 || [[Richard Teichmann]] || Drew || Berlin || 3/6 || +2−2=2 || |- | 1921 || [[Friedrich Sämisch]] || Won || Berlin || 2/2 || +2−0=0 || |- | 1922 || [[Ossip Bernstein]] || Won || Paris || 1½/2 || +1−0=1 || |- | 1922 || [[Arnold Aurbach]] || Won || Paris || 1½/2 || +1−0=1 || |- | 1922 || [[Manuel Golmayo]] || Won || Madrid || 1½/2 || +1−0=1 || |- | 1923 || [[André Muffang]] || Won || Paris || 2/2 || +2−0=0 || |- | 1926 || [[Edgar Colle]] || Won || Scarborough || 2/2 || +2−0=0 || play-off match |- | 1926/7 || [[Max Euwe]] || Won || Amsterdam || 5½/10 || +3−2=5 || |- | 1927 || [[José Raúl Capablanca]] || Won || Buenos Aires || 18½/34 || +6−3=25 || Won [[world chess championship]] |- | 1927 || [[Charles Jaffe]] || Won || New York || 2/2 || +2−0=0 || exhibition match |- | 1929 || [[Efim Bogoljubow]] || Won || Wiesbaden, Berlin, Amsterdam || 15½/25 || +11−5=9 || Retained world chess championship |- | 1933 || Rafael Cintron || Won || San Juan || 4/4 || +4−0=0 || exhibition match |- | 1933 || [[Ossip Bernstein]] || Drew || Paris || 2/4 || +1−1=2 || |- | 1934 || [[Efim Bogoljubow]] || Won || Baden-Baden, Villingen, Pforzheim,<br/> Bayreuth, Kissingen, Berlin || 15½/25 || +8−3=15 || Retained world chess championship |- | 1935 || [[Max Euwe]] || Lost || Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht || 14½/30 || +8−9=13 || Lost world chess championship |- | 1937 || [[Max Euwe]] || Won || Rotterdam, Haarlem, Leiden, Zwolle,<br/> Amsterdam, Delft, The Hague || 15½/25 || +10−4=11 || Won world chess championship |- | 1937 || [[Max Euwe]] || Lost || The Hague || 2/5 || +1−2=2 || exhibition match |- | 1941 || Lopez Esnaola || Won || Vitoria || 2/2 || +2−0=0 || |- | 1943 || [[Efim Bogoljubow]] || Drew || Warsaw || 2/4 || +2−2=0 || |- | 1944 || [[Ramón Rey Ardid]] || Won || Zaragoza || 2½/4 || +1−0=3 || |- | 1946 || [[Francisco Lupi]] || Won || Estoril || 2½/4 || +2−1=1 || |} ===Chess Olympiad results=== Here are Alekhine's results in [[Chess Olympiad]]s. He played top board for France in all these events. * Under score, + games won, − games lost, = games drawn {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center; margin:1em auto 1em auto;" |- ! Date !! Location !! Number!! class="unsortable" colspan="2"|Score !! class="unsortable"|Notes |- | 1930 || [[Hamburg]] || 3 || 9/9 || +9−0=0 || style="text-align:left;"| Alekhine won the brilliancy prize for his [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1012664 game] against [[Gideon Ståhlberg]] (Sweden). He did not win a medal because the medallists played 17 games each.<ref name="olimpbase1930Intro">{{cite web |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/1930/1930in.html |title=3rd Chess Olympiad: Hamburg 1930 |access-date=2008-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517061444/http://www.olimpbase.org/1930/1930in.html |archive-date=17 May 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> |- | 1931 || [[Prague]] || 4 || 13½/18 || +10−1=7 || style="text-align:left;"| Alekhine won the [[gold medal]] for 1st board. His loss to [[Hermanis Matisons]] ([[Latvia]]) was his first loss in a serious chess event since winning the world championship.<ref name="olimpbase1931Intro">{{cite web |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/1931/1931in.html |title=4th Chess Olympiad: Prague 1931 |access-date=2008-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518104922/http://www.olimpbase.org/1931/1931in.html |archive-date=18 May 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> |- | 1933 || [[Folkestone]] || 5 || 9½/12 || +8−1=3 || style="text-align:left;"| Alekhine won the [[gold medal]] for 1st board. His loss to [[Savielly Tartakower]] (Poland) was his second and last loss in chess olympiads.<ref name="olimpbase1933Intro">{{cite web |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/1933/1933in.html |title=5th Chess Olympiad: Folkestone 1933 |access-date=2008-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518105001/http://www.olimpbase.org/1933/1933in.html |archive-date=18 May 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> |- | 1935 || [[Warsaw]] || 6 || 12/17 || +7−0=10 || style="text-align:left;"| Alekhine won the [[silver medal]] for 1st board ([[Salo Flohr]] of [[Czechoslovakia]] took the gold by scoring 13/17).<ref name="olimpbase1935Intro">{{cite web |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/1935/1935in.html |title=6th Chess Olympiad: Warsaw 1935 |access-date=2008-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518105141/http://www.olimpbase.org/1935/1935in.html |archive-date=18 May 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> |- | 1939 || [[Buenos Aires]] || 8 || 7½/10 (12½/16) || +9−0=7 || style="text-align:left;"| Alekhine won the [[silver medal]] for 1st board ([[José Raúl Capablanca]] of [[Cuba]] took the gold by scoring 8½/11). Only games in the final stage were counted for awarding the medals. The first score is for the final stage, the one in parentheses is Alekhine's total score.<ref name="olimpbase1939Intro">{{cite web |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/1939/1939in.html |title=8th Chess Olympiad: Buenos Aires 1939 |access-date=2008-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517061210/http://www.olimpbase.org/1939/1939in.html |archive-date=17 May 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> |}
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