Defending champion | Challenger | |||||
 |  | |||||
 Alexander Alekhine |  Efim Bogoljubov | |||||
| ||||||
| Born 31 October 1892 36/37 years old | Born 26 April 1889 40 years old | |||||
In 1929, aWorld Chess Championship was played between challengerEfim Bogoljubow and titleholderAlexander Alekhine. The match was held inWiesbaden,Heidelberg andBerlin in Germany, andthe Hague,Rotterdam andAmsterdam in the Netherlands, from September 6 to November 12. Alekhine retained his title.
Alekhine had been world champion since his1927 victory overJosé Raúl Capablanca.
In 1928, Bogoljubov won a major tournament atBad Kissingen, ahead of Capablanca and most other leading players of the day except for Alekhine.[1] Following this win, he challenged Alekhine for the world title. There was also an alternative offer of a return match against Capablanca inBradley Beach, New Jersey, U.S.[2]
Under the rules at the time, the champion chose the challenger, and Alekhine chose to play a match against Bogoljubov.
The first player to win six gamesand score more than 15 points would be champion.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | Wins | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Alekhine (France) | 1 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 11 | 15½ |
| Efim Bogoljubow (Germany) | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 5 | 9½ |
September 6.
September 7.
The eighth game of this series was the only match in the history of the world chess championships to end in an actual checkmate;[3] in the vast majority of cases, the losing player will resign long before the checkmate is played out.
| Outline | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equipment | |||||||||
| History |
| ||||||||
| Rules | |||||||||
| Terms | |||||||||
| Tactics | |||||||||
| Strategy | |||||||||
| Openings |
| ||||||||
| Endgames | |||||||||
| Tournaments |
| ||||||||
| Art and media | |||||||||
| Related | |||||||||
| Pre-FIDE | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FIDE | |||||
| Split title |
| ||||
| FIDE | |||||
| Other world championships | |||||
