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Chess 16 Dec 1923, Sun Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, Nebraska) Newspapers.com
Alexander Alekhine.
The American tour of Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess master, being well under way, local players are doubtless interested in his various characteristics. The Brooklyn Eagle representative obtained some impressions that give us a good idea of the man and these we are pleased to offer a follows:
“A six-footer of military bearing with light hair and clear blue kindly eyes which nevertheless reflect the powerful intellect that enables him to play twenty-one games blindfolded at the same time. Alekhine has a winning personality that will make hosts of friends for him wherever he may go. His straight figure and broad shoulders bespeak the athlete rather than the mental gymnast that he is but one suspects with good reason that he is a combination of the two. One is forced to the conclusion that if this young visitor, in the prime of his manhood, sturdy and robust, with intelligence far above the average, is unable to defeat Capablanca when the opportunity to encounter him offers, then truly the great Cuban may retire on his laurels and forever after be regarded as absolutely invincible.
