Chess game / 20th centuryAlekhine; Alexandre Aleksandrovitch (1892-1946); Russian chess player then naturalized French; world chess champion from 1927 to 1935; then from 1937 to his death; known for his fierce and imaginative style of attack; he compromised himself with the nazis during the war by publishing a series of anti-Semitic articles from April to July 1941; under the title "Jewish and Aryan Chess"Portrait of Alexander Alekhine; circa 1940.Photo colorized later.