World Chess Championship 1927

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World Chess Championship 1927

Defending champion

Challenger

José Raúl Capablanca

Alexander Alekhine

15½	Scores	18½

Born 19 November 1888
38/39 years old

Born 31 October 1892
34/35 years old

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1929 →

The 1927 World Chess Championship was played between José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine, in Buenos Aires from September 16 to November 29, 1927. Alekhine, a Russian, became a naturalised French citizen during the match (on November 5).^[1]

According to the London rules of 1922 proposed by Capablanca, the challenger had to contribute $10,000 ($175,300 in 2023)^[2] to be able to challenge the champion. Alekhine was able to raise that money in 1927. Alekhine demanded that Capablanca fulfill this condition in order to play him in a rematch, but Capablanca was never able to come up with that money.^{[citation needed]}

Results

The first player to win six games would be World Champion.^[1] Some sources suggest the match would have been drawn and replayed if it reached a score of 5–5, but it is unclear whether this was the case.^[3]

World Chess Championship Match 1927
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	Wins	Total
José Raúl Capablanca (Cuba)	0	=	1	=	=	=	1	=	=	=	0	0	=	=	=	=	=	=	=	=	0	=	=	=	=	=	=	=	1	=	=	0	=	0	3	15½
Alexander Alekhine (France)	1	=	0	=	=	=	0	=	=	=	1	1	=	=	=	=	=	=	=	=	1	=	=	=	=	=	=	=	0	=	=	1	=	1	6	18½

Alekhine won the Championship, scoring +6−3=25.^[4]

References

^ Chess Notes: 8058. Alekhine’s French citizenship (C.N. 8054), Edward Winter
^ https://minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/inflation-calculator. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
^ Capablanca v Alekhine, 1927, Edward Winter, August 3, 2020
^ Cree, G. "1927 World Chess Championship". Archived from the original on 2005-01-21. Retrieved 2009-06-02.

External links

1927 World Chess Championship at the Internet Archive record of Graeme Cree's Chess Pages

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