Nottingham 1936 Chess Photo - Signed by Alekhine, Capablanca, Lasker & More

When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

Nottingham 1936 Chess Photo - Signed by Alekhine, Capablanca, Lasker & More:
$7500.00

Being offered is perhaps the most important and most prized piece of chess history in existence! What you see before you is the official Nottingham 1936 International Chess Tournament Photo signed by ALL 15 participants as well as tournament organizer J.N. Derbyshire. The participants included no less than 5 past, present, or future World Champions including Alexander Alekhine, José Raúl Capablanca, Mikhail Botvinnik, Max Euwe, and Emanuel Lasker. The field also included chess legends Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky, Efim Bogoljubow, Savielly Tartakower, Salo Flohr, Milan Vidmar, and was rounded out by Theodore Tylor, C.H.O\'D Alexander, and George Alan Thomas. \"Nottingham 1936, was a 15-player round robin chess tournament held August 10–28 at the University of Nottingham. It was one of the strongest of all time.Dr. J. Hannak wrote in his 1959 biography of Emanuel Lasker that \"when it comes to awarding the plum for \'the greatest chess tournament ever\', in 1936, the Nottingham Tournament was certainly just that\". W. H. Watts in the Introduction to the tournament book called Nottingham 1936 \"the most important chess event the world has so far seen\". It is one of the very few tournaments in chess history to include five past, present, or future world champions (Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe and Botvinnik). A number of other prominent players, such as Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky and Salo Flohr, were in the tournament.According to the unofficial Chessmetrics ratings, the tournament was (as of March 2005) one of only five tournaments in history that had the top eight players in the world playing, and was (in terms of the leading players playing) the third strongest in history. All of the top twelve players on Chessmetrics\' August 1936 rating list competed in the tournament except for numbers nine and ten (Andor Lilienthal and Paul Keres).The event is also notable for being Lasker\'s last major event, and for Botvinnik achieving the first Soviet success outside the Soviet Union.\"Photos from the event can be seen photo itself is roughly 6\"x8\" and is in excellent condition. It has been stored in a thick, UV resistant display case that wonderfully displays both sides of the piece. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to own a museum worthy piece that would be the crown jewel of even the most discriminating of chess memorabilia collections. I have sold many high end items over the years with impeccable response so offer confidently and rest assured that what you see before you is the absolute real deal in every way. Please email with any questions and i\'d be happy to speak over the phone with any serious potential buyers of this stunning, blue-chip piece that has literally passed through the hands of some of the greatest and most important players in chess history!(*Included in the sale will also be a copy of the Annotated Tournament Book by Alexander Alekhine.)