AFebruary 02 1925
Omaha World-Herald, Omaha, Nebraska, Monday, February 02, 1925
Alechine, Who Played Here, Sets Chess Mark
Paris.—Alexander Alechine set a new world's record for blindfold chess Sunday. He gave a simultaneous exhibition against twenty-eight French amateurs beginning at 10:20 a.m. and completing the series at 11 p.m. He won twenty-three games, drew three and lost three.
At the end of the play Alechine appeared most as fresh as when he started the first of 8 hundred moves, averaging less than thirty moves per board.
In the chess master's tournament in New York last April Alechine faced twenty-six players in an exhibition of simultaneous blindfold chess, finishing the twelve-hour play with sixteen games won, five lost and five drawn.
Alechine gave an exhibition in Omaha last year.
February 11 1925
International Chess masters tournament, Paris, France, February 11, 1925. Invitations were extended to Alexander Alekhine, Savielly Tartakower, Karl Opocensky, Eugene Znosko-Borovsky and Edgar Colle. Alekhine finished undefeated.
