His annotations frequently contain glaring errors and his attacks weren't always sound, but who cares? Humans can't calculate like Stockfish; they make mistakes in their calculations, they suffer from fatigue, etc.
When reading old chess books, which often have mistakes in analysis, the important thing to remember is that the general principles they contain can be of great value to the practical player.
The following game was played in a 1st category tournament in Moscow in October. In December Alekhine scored another triumph when he cleaned house in the Moscow City Championship with a score of 11.5-0.5!
This game demonstrates the importance of the Pawn center and how an attack can develop from it. In the complications Alekhine reached a position where his superiority was evident: he controlled the center and his opponent's pieces were all huddled together trying to defend his King. Then he made a tactical error! Not one that lost the game, but one that should have allowed Zubarev to at least equalize...but he, also, missed the correct continuation and Alekhine finished him off with a couple of crushing blows.
Alexander Alekhine–Nikolay Zubarev1–01st Category tournament. Moscow1915Stockfish 15
Nimzo-Indian: Classical 1.d4 f6 2.c4 e6 3.c3 b4 4.c2 This is the
Classical Variation. The idea is that in the event of ...Bxc3 white can
recapture Qxc3 avoiding doubled Ps and the Q keeps an eye on e4. b6 This
game was played pre-Nimzovich and this move is a major concession because it
allows white to push e2-e4. Good moves are 4...O-O and 4...d5 5.e4 b7 6.d3 6.e5 is also good. After xc3+ 7.xc3 e4 8.e3 f5 9.d3 9.f3 h4+
black is better 9.exf6 xf6 favors black 9...0-0 10.e2 white has a
favorable position. 6...xc3+ In this line white can't avoid the doubled
Ps because recapturing with the Q koses the e-Pawn. 7.bxc3 d6 8.e2
Not 8.Nf3 blocking f-Pawn. 8.f4 This bold move was also playable! e5 9.f3 bd7 10.fxe5 dxe5 11.g5 with an excellent position. 8...bd7
Hoping that at some point he can play ...e5 9.0-0 0-0 9...e7 10.f4 e5 10...0-0-0 in Virkud,A (2027)-Amrayeva,A (2191) Porto Carras GRE 2015 black
got away with this risky move. 11.a4 Correct was 11...e5! a5 12.g3 g6 13.f3 h5 and black succeeded in launching a decisive K-side attack. 11.g3 g6 12.c5 exd4 13.c6 xc6 14.cxd4 b8 15.f5 fd7 16.d5 b7 17.xc7 a6 18.xa6 xa6 19.b7 Black resigned. Horvath,J (2525)-Fokin,S (2365) Budapest
1990 9...e5 It's too soon to play this because after 10.f4 0-0 11.g3
white has the better prospects as any capture by black with the f-Pawn has
disadvantages. 10.f4 h6 11.g3 Good, but Euwe's 11.e5 dislodging the N
first was even better. 11.e5 e8 12.g3 c5 13.e2 h4 14.f5 cxd4 15.f4 d8 16.cxd4 dxe5 17.dxe5 c7 18.g4 e7 19.xg7+ Black resigned. Euwe,
M-Colle,E Amsterdam 1928 11...e7 12.e2 ae8 Black is in a very
difficult situation here. The two games in the notes, Horvath-Fokin and
Euwe-Colle, already hint at the truth of the statement. 12...e5 The move
black hoped to play meets with disaster. 13.f5 d8 14.fxe5 dxe5 15.e3
Threatening to sacrifice the N and there is nothing black can do about it! h8 15...h7 16.xg7 16.xg7 g8 17.f5 g5 18.h3 g6 19.xh6 xh6 20.xh6 and white is winning. 13.a3 An excellent place for the B. c5
Blocking the Bs diagonal. 14.ae1 This centralizing move brings his last
piece into play. The immediate 14.e5 was also playable. h8 As good a move
as any. 14...cxd4 Only opens up the diagonal for white's B. 15.e5 dxc3 16.xd6 15.d5 Not the best, but it's good enough. 15.e5 g8 Shoring up
h6. 16.c1 f5 17.exf6 dxf6 18.g6 d8 19.d5 e5 20.f5 White has a
winning attack. Just one example... c7 21.h4 e7 22.g4 d7 23.g5 g4+ 24.xg4 xg4 25.h3 hxg5 26.fxg5 the N is trapped. 15...g8 16.e5 This is
a serious tactical mistake that loses a little material and should have
allowed black to equalize.. It was necessary to first bring the B on a3 back
into play with 16.Bc1 g6 Zubarev returns the favor. While this
move may preclude the possibility of white playing f4-f5 it further weakens
the K's position. 16...dxe5 equalizes 17.fxe5 exd5 18.cxd5 xd5
and in the ensuing complications black can hold his own. 19.c1 19.b1 xe5 20.c2 f5 21.xf5 g5 22.g3 with equal chances. 19...xe5 20.h5
does not lead to any things and black is two Ps u 17.d2 A positional move
that gets the Q out of the way of the R on e1 and so makes dxe6 a real threat. exd5 17...a6 This is a pass to demonstrate the dxe6 threat. 18.dxe6 xe6 19.f5 Crushing! 19.exd6 xd6 is good for black. 19...gxf5 20.xf5 e7 21.exd6 d8 22.c1 xe1 23.xe1 e8 24.d1 df6 25.f4 white is winning. c8 26.xh6 xh6 27.xc8 xc8 28.xf6 17...dxe5 18.fxe5 f5 19.exf6 xf6 20.xf6 xf6 21.e4 White is clearly better. 18.cxd5 dxe5 18...xd5 19.b5 b7 20.exd6 and white is winning. 19.c4 h7 With nothing much to do,
black gets his K off the dangerous long diagonal. 20.b2 gf6 21.fxe5
g4 22.e6 h4 White has a mate in 14! 23.xf7+ Very
characteristic of the vintage Alekhine. xf7 23...g8 also leads to his
getting mated in a pretty way. 24.g7+ h8 25.xg6+ df6 26.xg4 xg4 27.xh6+ g8 28.xf6 xf6 29.h7+ h8 30.g6+ g8 31.h7+ f8 32.e7+ xe7 33.h8# 24.xg6+ xg6 25.d3+ g5 26.c1+ Black resigned as
mate follows. 26.c1+ f6 27.f5+ g7 28.xf7+ h8 29.xe8+ h7 30.xd7+ h8 31.b2+ f6 32.e7 d4+ 33.xd4 cxd4 34.e8+ g8 35.xg8+ xg8 36.e8# 1–0
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