His father was a wealthy landowner, a Marshal of the Nobility and a member of the State Duma and his mother was an heiress to an industrial fortune. Both he brothers were taught chess by their mother. According to Alexander (the World Champion) for a long time the three played a lot of chess together on a regular basis.
Alexei was good enough that he was able to draw with Harry Nelson Pillsbury when the American gave a simultaneous blindfold display in Moscow in 1902.
After the October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, took place in Russia on October 24–25 in 1917, he had a number of successes in local tournaments. He was considered a First Category player which, I believe, is in the 2000-2199 Elo range.
In an article written by Hans Kmoch entitled “Alexander Alekhine” he stated that Alexei, whom he had met in Moscow during the 1925 tournament, was murdered shortly afterwards in connection with a love affair, according to newspaper reports outside Russia. That was wrong. He died in Kharkov in August of 1939.
In the following game he defeats Andreas Duhm (1883-1975, 92 yers old). He was born in Gottingen, Germany. He was Swiss champion in 1900, 1901 (jointly with his brother Hans Duhm) and 1913. He passed away in Heidelberg in 1975.
Alexei Alekhine–Andreas Duhm1–0D00CorrespondenceCorrespondence1909Stockfish 17
D00: Stonewall 1.d4 d5 2.e3 e6 3.d3 f6 4.d2 c5 5.c3 c6 6.f4
The Stonewall Attack was briefly popular. Between the 1880s and the 1920s it
was used by players with an attacking style, but wjen black discovered
equalizing lines the opening fell into disuse. At least it’s flexible and
can be reached by several different move orders. cxd4 7.exd4 Capturing with
the c-Pawn is equal while with his next move white is forced to defend the
f-Pawn with either 8.g3 or 8.Nh3, beither of which offer gim a very promising
game. d6 8.h3 8.g3 d7 9.e2 c7 10.gf3 with equal chances.
Aleksandrova,A (1687)-Volodarsky,M (1400) Ashdod ISR 2022 8...0-0 8...g6 9.0-0 d7 10.e2 c7 11.f3 The chances are about equal. Zilahi,G (2059)
-Ferenczi,J (2015) Budapest 2006 8...e7 rather passive, but not really
bad. 9.e2 0-0 10.0-0 g6 11.f3 h6 12.e5 Black doesn't want to allow
Nxg6 so he should retreat 13...Ne7 xe5 13.fxe5 h7 Better was 13...Ne4.
After the text black loses quickly. 14.h5 e8 15.xh6 f5 16.exf6 xf6 17.f4 hf8 18.xg6 1-0 Tasic,Z (2236)-Radovanovic,Z (2074) Belgrade 2005 8...c7 This is OK. 9.0-0 0-0 10.e2 e8 11.f3 e7 12.d2 d6 13.ae1 a5 14.a4 b6 15.e5 b8 This loses. 15...f5 keeps the chances about evem. 16.g5 xg5 17.fxg5 g6 18.g4 d7 19.f4 c6 20.e5 c4 21.h6# 1-0
Appel,H-Schmithuesen,B Bern 1991 9.0-0 d7 10.e2 a6 11.f3 b5 12.e5 g6 This vreatres a weakness on the dark squares arounf his K. 12...
Ne7 was better. 13.g5 e7 14.f3 e8 15.h3 This R-lift is a common
tactic in these types of positions. White gradually builds up his attack and
black's defensive task becomes more difficult with each move. g7 16.d2 d8 17.f1 h8 18.f5 exf5 Black's position looks solid enough, but..
. 19.xf5 gxf5 Black is much too obliging, but other moves
would (theoretically) not really have helped. 19...h6 20.f2 a7 20...gxf5 21.xf5 xe5 22.dxe5 g8 23.g3 ends ir... hxg5 24.xg5 e6 25.h6+ xh6 26.g5+ h7 27.g7# 21.e1 even with two pieces under attack white
has a decisive advantage. Neither piece can be taken. f8 21...hxg5 22.xh8 xh8 23.xg5 gxf5 24.h4+ g8 25.xf6 wins 21...gxf5 22.g3 g4 23.xf5 d7 24.e6+ xe6 25.xg4+ f8 26.g6+ e8 27.xe7 xf5 28.xf5+ d7 29.h4 h5 30.f4 f8 30...xf4 31.e7+ 31.e5 h7 32.g4 White will
win the ending wothout much trouble. 22.gf3 c6 23.h4 g8 24.f1 e7 25.g3 Black's position lools solid, but Stockfish give white a decisive
advantage. That's the theoretical evaluation and after giving Stockfish a long
look reaching to move 48 it still dud not reach a position that was obviously
decisive. So, from the human perspective things are not at all that clear. 20.g3 f8 21.xf5 h6 22.e3 A nifty finish! White threatens Nh7+ and mate.
c7 23.xf6 23.h7+ and black likely survives. xh7 24.xf6 xe5 25.dxe5 and while white is better, there is no clear win in sight. 23...e7
There is nowhere to run. 24.f5 f6 25.g4+ Black resigned. A very well
played game by Alekhine. 25.g4+ d7 26.xf6+ c8 27.xd5 c6 28.e4 d7 29.xd6+ xd6 30.g6 e6 30...xg6 31.e7+ 31.e4 xf5 32.xf5+ e6 33.xe6 f8 34.f6+ b8 35.f4 b7 36.h7+ f7 37.xf7+ c8 38.e8+ b7 39.f7+ c7 40.xc7# 1–0
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