Alexei (Alexey) Alekhine (, ''Alekséy Aleksándrovich Alékhin'', 1888–1939) was a Russian

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master and the brother of

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Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine. He disliked when Russians sometimes pronounced the of as , , which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was . (March 24, 1946) was a Russian ...

. His father was a wealthy landowner, a Marshal of the Nobility and a member of the

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, and his mother was an heiress to an industrial fortune. Both he and his younger brother Alexander were taught chess by their mother. Alexei drew with

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when the American master gave a

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in 1902. He tied for fourth in the Moscow Chess Club Autumn tournament in 1907, while Alexander tied for eleventh. Alexei finished third at Moscow 1913 ( Oldřich Duras won), and tied for third at Moscow 1915. He was an editor of the chess journal "''Shakhmatny Vyestnik''" from 1913 to 1916. After the

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, he won (elimination – third group) and took third place in the tournament for amateurs in Moscow, held in October 1920, while his brother Alexander won the first USSR Chess Championship (All-Russian Chess Olympiad) there. He took third place at

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(now Saint Petersburg) 1923, took 12th at Moscow 1924, tied for fourth-fifth at

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1925 (the second Ukrainian Chess Championship, Yakov Vilner won), took 11th at

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1926 ( Ukrainian championship, Boris Verlinsky and Marsky won), and took 8th at

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1927 (Ukrainian championship, won by Alexey Selezniev). Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's ''Chess Tournament Crosstables'', An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01 Alexei died in Kharkov in August 1939.

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