alekhine in A Sentence

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    Philidor is my friend, Alekhine is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

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    The popularity of Alekhine's Defence waxes and wanes; currently it is not very common.

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    Alekhine went on to set another record in 1934, with 32 games, which George Koltanowski broke in 1937, when he played 34 simultaneously.

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    Harry Nelson Pillsbury played 20 blindfold games concurrently in 1900, and in 1924, Alexander Alekhine played 26 difficult opponents, winning 16, losing 5 and drawing 5, in what has been characterized as the strongest exhibition of blindfold play ever held.

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