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===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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