Below are lists, as comprehensive as possible, of books about
(not by) José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine:
Diagram: Silbert v Capablanca,
Paris, 1914
A Brief Review of the Chess Record of José Raúl Capablanca
by D. Welles (New York, 1911)
Kh. R. Kapablanka Opyt kharakteristiki by E.A.
Znosko-Borovsky (St Petersburg, 1911)
20 Partien Capablanca’s by B. Kagan (Berlin, 1915)
Glorias del Tablero “Capablanca” by J.A. Gelabert
(Havana, 1923 and 1924)
Kapablanka i Alekhin: bor’ba za mirovoe pervenstvo v
shakhmaty by E.A. Znosko-Borovsky (Paris, 1927)*
The Immortal Games of Capablanca by F. Reinfeld (New
York, 1942, 1974 and 1990)
Homenaje a José Raúl Capablanca (Havana, 1943)
Partidas Clásicas de Capablanca by G. Ståhlberg and P.
Alles Monasterio (Buenos Aires, 1943)
Capablanca by F. Chalupetzky and L. Tóth (Kecskemét,
1943)
Capablanca Veszit by F. Chalupetzky and L. Tóth
(Kecskemét, undated)
Capablanca’s Hundred Best Games of Chess by H.
Golombek (London, 1947, New York, 1947, New York, 1978, St
Leonards on Sea, 1989, London, 1996 and Aylesbeare, 2004) – plus
German translation/adaptation: J.R. Capablanca 75 seiner
schönsten Partien
Het Schaakphenomeen José Raoul Capablanca by M. Euwe
and L. Prins (The Hague, 1949) – plus German, Spanish and
Russian translations
Kapablanka by V. Panov (Moscow, 1959) – plus Spanish
translation*
Capablancas Förlustpartier by J.E. Westman (Uppsala,
1963)
Weltgeschichte des Schachs: Capablanca by J. Gilchrist
and D. Hooper (Hamburg, 1963)
J.R. Capablanca by B. Hörberg and J. Westberg (Örebro,
1965)
Kapablanka by V. Panov (Moscow, 1970) – plus Spanish,
Italian and Serbian translations
Capablanca by S. Petrović (Zagreb, 1974)
The Unknown Capablanca by D. Hooper and D. Brandreth
(London, 1975, New York, 1975 and New York, 1993)
Capablancas Verlustpartien by F.C. Görschen
(Hamburg-Bergedorf, 1976)
Capablanca, Leyenda y Realidad by M.A. Sánchez, two
volumes (Havana, 1978) – plus updated edition, 2017/19
The Best Endings of Capablanca and Fischer (Belgrade,
1978)
Capablanca’s Best Chess Endings by I. Chernev (Oxford,
1978 and New York, 1982)
Capablanca – das Schachphänomen by W.N. Panow
(Stuttgart, 1982)
Endspieltechnik à la Capablanca by L. Nikolaiczuk
(Mannheim, 1987)
Das Schachgenie Capablanca by I. Linder and W. Linder
(East Berlin, 1988)
Gent Nostra Capablanca by M. Fontrodona (Barcelona,
1988)
Así Jugaba Capablanca by J. Daubar (Havana, 1988)
Kapablanka v Rossii by V. Linder and I. Linder (Moscow,
1988)
Kapablanka Vstrechi c Rossiey by A.I. Sizonenko
(Moscow, 1988)
Capablanca A Compendium of Games, Notes, Articles,
Correspondence, Illustrations and Other Rare Archival
Materials on the Cuban Chess Genius José Raúl Capablanca,
1888-1942 by E. Winter (Jefferson, 1989 and 2011)
Partie Jose Raoula Capablanki 1901-1927 (Warsaw, 1989)
Partie Jose Raoula Capablanki 1928-1939 (Warsaw, 1989)
José Raoul Capablanca Ein Schachmythos (Düsseldorf,
1989)
Capablanca by J. Daubar (Havana, 1990)
The Games of José Raúl Capablanca by R. Caparrós
(Yorklyn, 1991). Second edition: Dallas, 1994 – plus Spanish
translation
Jose Capablanca by S. Akhpatelov and S. Gordon
(undated)
José Raúl Capablanca by D. Bjelica (Madrid, 1993)
Capablanca 222 partidas (Madrid, 1994)
Match por el campeonato de ajedrez Capablanca y Alekhine
(Buenos Aires, 1994)
Ajedrez La lucha por la iniciativa by O. Aldama
Zambrano (Santiago de Cuba, 1994* and Barcelona, 2000)
Jose Raul Capablanca Games 1901-1926 (1997)
Jose Raul Capablanca Games 1927-1942 (1997)
J.R. Capablanca by E. Varnusz (two volumes – ‘Games
1888-1925’ and ‘Games 1926-1942’, circa 1997)
Capablanca’s Eighteen Select Chess Games by F.N. Tapia
(Havana, 1998)
Capablanca biografía 42 partidas magistrales by J.
Chiappini (Rosario, 1998)
Ajedrez La lucha por la iniciativa by O. Aldama
Zambrano (Barcelona, 2000)
Sygrajte kak Kapablanka by I.M. Linder (Moscow, 2004)
Jose Raul Capablanca: Zjizn i Igra by V. Linder and I.
Linder (Moscow, 2005)
Jose Raul Capablanca by I. Kourkounakis and I.
Babasakis (Athens, 2005)
The Chess Greats of the World: Capablanca by D. Lovas
(Kecskemét, 2006)
Capablanca in the United Kingdom (1911-1920) by V.
Fiala (Olomouc, 2006)
Capablanca entre sus iguales by R. Milián González
(Havana, 2006)
José Raúl Capablanca Avtoportret genia by S. Voronkov,
two volumes (Moscow, 2006)
José Raúl Capablanca by G. Siwek (Warsaw, 2007)
Capablanca Pacto con la Inmortalidad by V. Ramón Pita
(Havana, 2008)
José Raúl Capablanca by F.P. Miller, A.F. Vandome and
J. McBrewster (Beau Bassin, 2009)
José Raúl Capablanca by I. and V. Linder (Milford,
2010)
Capablanca: A Primer of Checkmate by F. Del Rosario
(Newton Highlands, 2010)
Korol shakhmat Jose Raul Capablanca by I. and V. Linder
(Moscow, 2011)
José Raul Capablanca The Mouthpiece by R. Long
(Davenport, 2011)
Capablanca move by move by C. Lakdawala (London, 2012)
José Raúl Capablanca A Chess Biography by M.A. Sánchez
(Jefferson, 2015) – plus Spanish edition, 2017/19; two-volume
Spanish edition, 2019; Portuguese edition, 2019; one-volume
Spanish edition, 2019
José Raúl Capablanca Sekrety masterstva by A. Bezgodov
(Rostov-on-Don, 2018)
Neizvestniy mir Kapablanki by M. Sokolov (Moscow, 2018)
Play Like a World Champion José Raúl Capablanca by B.
Jordan (‘Amazon Fulfillment’, Wrocław, 2019).
Geniy Kombinatsiy Grossmeister A. A. Alekhin by A.
Mirles (Kiev, 1926)
Kapablanka i Alekhin: bor’ba za mirovoe pervenstvo v
shakhmaty by E.A. Znosko-Borovsky (Paris, 1927)*
Dr Aljechin by F. Chalupetzky (Kecskemét, 1928)
Dr Aljechin Sakkszemlélete (Kecskemét, 1931)
Alekhine campeão mundial de xadrez em Portugal by A.
Araújo Pereira (Lisbon, 1940)
Alekhine’s Best Games of Chess 1938-1945 by C.H.O’D.
Alexander (London, 1949) – plus Italian translation
The Unknown Alekhine 1905-1914 by F. Reinfeld (New
York, 1949 and London, 1949). Reissued as 100 Instructive
Games of Alekhine (New York, 1959)
Shakhmatnoe Nasledie A.A. Alekhina by A. Kotov, two
volumes (Moscow, 1953 and 1958) – plus Czech, German, Serbian
and Spanish translations
Schachgenie Aljechin by H. Müller and A. Pawelczak
(Berlin-Frohnau, 1953)
300 Izbrannikh Partii Alekhina by V. Panov (Moscow,
1954) – plus Romanian and Hungarian translations
Agonía de un Genio by P. Morán (Madrid, 1972), plus
English edition (Jefferson, 1989 and 2010)
Testament d’Alekhine by A. Baratz (Paris, 1972)
75 parties d’Alekhine by J. Le Monnier (Paris, 1973)
Aleksandr Alekhin by A. Kotov (Moscow, 1973) – plus
English and Spanish* translations
Aleksandar Aleksandrovic Aljehin (1892-1946) by S.
Petrović and Z. Klement, two volumes (Zagreb, 1974 and 1977)
Aljechin Jüdisches und arisches Schach by H.
Griesshammer (Nuremberg, 1983)
Alekhine Nazi Articles by K. Whyld (Caistor, 1986 and
Olomouc, 2002)
Alekhine 222 partidas (Madrid, 1990)
Aljechins Besuche in der Schweiz 1921-1934 by T.
Preziuso (Suhr, 1991)
Das Schachgenie Aljechin by I. and W. Linder (Berlin,
1992)
Alekhine in the Americas by J. Donaldson, N. Minev and
Y. Seirawan (Seattle, 1992)
The Games of Alexander Alekhine by R. Caparrós and P.
Lahde (Brentwood, 1992)
Aleksandr Alekhin by Y. Shaburov (Moscow, 1992)
Alekhine: Moya Borba/Alekhine: My Struggle by V.
Chashchikhin (Moscow, 1992)
Alechin v Československu by J. Kalendovský (Brno, 1992)
Alexander Alekhine The informal games 1931-1933 by J.
Kalendovský (Brno, 1992)
226 Korotkih Partii Aleksandra Alekhina by V. Charushin
(Novgorod, 1992)
Alekhine by V. Linder and I. Linder (Moscow, 1992)
Complete Games of Alekhine (three volumes: 1892-1921,
1921-1924 and 1925-1927) by J. Kalendovský and V. Fiala
(Olomouc, 1992, 1996 and 1998)
Alexander Aljechin – Genius der Kombinationen by W.
Haas (Maintal, 1993)
Alexander Alekhine by D. Bjelica (Madrid, 1993)
Alekhine in Europe and Asia by J. Donaldson, N. Minev
and Y. Seirawan (Seattle, 1993)
Aljechin, der Grösste! by E. Varnusz and A. Földeák
(Düsseldorf, 1994)
Match por el campeonato de ajedrez Capablanca y Alekhine
(Buenos Aires, 1994)
Alexander Alekhine by S. Akhpatelov and S. Gordon
(undated)
Aleksander Alechin by K. Pytel (Warsaw, undated)
Alexander Alekhine and correspondence chess by C.A.
Pagni (Turin, 1996)
U Rokovoi Certi by V. Charushin (Novgorod, 1996)
Alexander Alekhine’s Chess Games, 1902-1946 by L.
Skinner and R. Verhoeven (Jefferson, 1998)
Aljechins Kombinationen by K.-O. Jung (Homburg-Einöd,
1998)
Xeque-Mate no Estoril by D.L. Markl (Porto, 2001)
Zjizn Zamechatelnih Ljudei: Alekhine by Y. Shaburov
(Moscow, 2001)*
Alexander Alekhine I Games 1902-1922 (Sofia, 2002)
Alexander Alekhine II Games 1923-1934 (Sofia, 2002)
Alexander Alekhine Master of Attack by A. Raetsky and
M. Chetverik (London, 2004) – plus Polish translation
Sygrajte kak Alekhin by I.M. Linder (Moscow, 2004)
Alexander Alekhine: Zhizn i igra by I. and V. Linder
(Moscow, 2007)
Aljechin šahovski umetnik by J. Stupica (Ljubljana,
2007)
The Chess Greats of the World: Alekhine by D. Lovas
(Kecskemét, 2010)
Alexander Alekhine The Executioner by R. Long
(Davenport, 2011)
A chacun son héros – Alekhine, le virtuose des échecs
by G. Gignac (Montreal, 2011)
Alexander Aljechin Biografie des 4. Schachweltmeisters
by W. Daniel (Eltmann, 2012)
Alexander Alekhine The Great Combination Master by J.J.
Hay (2013)
Aleksandr Alekhin. Uroki shakmatnoi igry by N.
Kalinichenko and V. Ionov (Moscow, 2015)
Alexander Alekhine by I. and V. Linder (Milford, 2016)
Alekhine move by move by S. Giddins (London, 2016)
Odesskie tayny Aleksandra Alekhina by S. Tkachenko
(Moscow, 2016/17) – plus English translation.
These lists exclude not only works by Capablanca and Alekhine but
also match and tournament books involving them, as well as fiction
(e.g. the novels by Kotov and Yaffe concerning Alekhine). Another
intentional omission is Alekhine’s Block, which is not
specifically about him. The lists of books in our collection
(presented in C.N. 4416) have been supplemented here by titles
subsequently mentioned to us by Luca D’Ambrosio (Bolzano, Italy),
Miquel Artigas (Sabadell, Spain), Javier Asturiano Molina (Murcia,
Spain), Michael Negele (Wuppertal, Germany), Hassan Roger Sadeghi
(Lausanne, Switzerland), Leonard Skinner (Cowbridge, Wales), Olaf
Wolna (Hamburg, Germany) and Yakov Zusmanovich (Pleasanton, CA,
USA). Books not in our collection are marked with an asterisk.
For additional information about the output of M.A. Sánchez on
Capablanca, see C.N. 11677.
