World Chess Championship 1927
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World Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the board game chess. Men and women of any age are eligible to contest this title....
was played between José Raúl Capablanca
José Raúl Capablanca
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. One of the greatest players of all time, he was renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play...
and Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...
. It was played in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
from September 16 to November 29, 1927. Alekhine, a Russian, became a naturalised French citizen three days before the match.
Results
The first player to win six games would be World Champion.It has been suggested that if it reached 5-5 the incumbent (Capablanca) would win, but it is unclear whether this is the case.
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | = | 1 | = | = | = | 1 | = | = | = | 0 | 0 | = | = | = | = | = | = | = | = | 0 | = | = | = | = | = | 1 | = | = | = | = | 0 | = | 0 | 3 | |
| 1 | = | 0 | = | = | = | 0 | = | = | = | 1 | 1 | = | = | = | = | = | = | = | = | 1 | = | = | = | = | = | 0 | = | = | = | = | 1 | = | 1 | 6 |
Alekhine won the Championship.
External links
- http://web.archive.org/web/20050121124900/http://members.aol.com/graemecree/chesschamps/world/world1927.htm at the Internet Archive record of Graeme Cree's Chess Pages