- Alekhine said (in his famous open letter, December of 1945) that in those articles to
him belong only the statements about the necessity of the International Chess Federation
(FIDE) reconstruction and criticism of the theories by Steinitz and Lasker, written long
before 1939. And, certainly, Alekhine never wrote later any historical articles (or other
serious articles) when he was on the territories controlled by nazis.
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- The articles were falsified by Austrian master and chess journalist Theodore
Gerbec (his life was terminated in 1945). He was a chess editor of "Pariser Zeitung" and fascist on his belief.
Gerbec is more known as a co-editor of "Deutsche Schachzeitung" in 1942-1943. He
wrote about Flohr and Fine in the similar way in 1930s. (Victor Charushin discovered
it.)
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- It's an interesting fact that even "opponents" are compelled to admit: the
articles have insertions and cuts. And the articles were changing from publication to
publication! What to say? Some persons prefer to believe in the decency of the nazis
press... It's an important and typical psychological problem. The nobleness of great
people irritates some souls seriously. Such men can't understand why Alekhine, rich and
not healthy man, voluntary joined into the French army in 1940, and why he, with
Tartakower, denounced the Germans (on the radio of Argentina) after the 1st of September
of 1939; German team (it was VIII Chess Olympiad) got a boycott thanks to efforts of
Alekhine and Tartakower.
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