This is a fictionalized account of the life and career of world
chess champion Alexander Alekhine. Born into Russian nobility,
Alekhine lost his family and nearly his life to the Bolsheviks
before becoming the worlds most powerful chess player. The coming
of World War II placed the chess master in a difficult position,
forcing him to collaborate with the Nazis and to produce
anti-Semitic materials. Desperate to win back his credibility after
the war, Alekhine was preparing for the redemptive title match at
the time of his sudden death. Alekhines life was marked by
alcoholism, fits of depression, scandalous affairs, marriages of
convenience, painful compromises, and his battle to become "the
Greatest." The novel is told as fiction but is based on the actual
people and events that were part of his triumphant career and
troubled life.
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