Alehin ne prosto geniy i pervyy russkiy chempion mira po shahmatam. Eto chelovek udivitelnoy sudby. Mirovye i grazhdanskaya voyny, krovavye revolyutsii, nesostoyavshiesya rasstrely, poterya rodiny, obvineniya v kollaboratsionizme zhizn Alehina byla uzhasno neprostoy, no on udivitelnym obrazom prisposablivalsya. I delal vse, chtoby nikto ne meshal emu zanimatsya edinstvennym lyubimym delom, kotoromu on otdavalsya maniakalno, shahmatami.
V otlichie ot bolshinstva drugih knig ob Alehine v etoy vy uvidite dosku s polnym naborom shahmatnyh figur: vas zhdut podrobnye istorii o velikom Laskere, elegantnom Kapablanke, chlene NSDAP Bogolyubove i sovetskom kolosse Botvinnike, kotorye byli vazhnoy chastyu sudby nashego geroya.
Pochti vsya zhizn Alehina voyna. S lyudmi, s obstoyatelstvami... Ona znala i preodolenie, i predatelstvo. I kniga avtora Sports.ru Stanislava Kuptsova skoree dazhe ne o shahmatah, a ob utlom sudenyshke pod nazvaniem «zhizn».
