24 SEPTEMBER 1927, Page 20

Every chess-player will want Mr. Alekhin's My Best Games of

Chess, 1908-1923 (Bell. 10s. 6d.). Only thirty-five yeas old, he is now a Docteur en droit in Paris and one of the three greatest chess-players in the world. His favourite opening appears to be the Queen's Gambit Declined, but he gives its an amusing Irregular Opening (which he says is an innovation of the hyper-modern school) developing the bishops on the long diagonals.