Reviews for New York International Chess Tournament 1924: The Race of Champions

The average rating for New York International Chess Tournament 1924: The Race of Champions based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-12-22 00:00:00 Stephen Kubacki One of the most famous chess tournaments ever with all 110 games - 72 of which were decisive - annotated by then participant and not yet, but future, Word Champion Alexander Alekhine. Alekhine was both a positional master and one of the greatest attacking players of all time. To have his contemporaneous and unfiltered analysis is priceless. He seems to have had an especial disdain for anti-positional moves, which is striking because this is also the tournament where Reti unleashed his "move of the future," one of the hallmarks of Hypermodernism.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-10-07 00:00:00 Duc Nguyen Naturally I'm assuming that, given Al's often high-handed and preemptory tone, he's generally right in his pronouncements...although his judgments about openings do at times tend toward the silly. But anyway, a number of marvelous and instructive games, with an astonishing amount of Retis and Pircs (we even see Capablanca play 1...g6 at one point!).