My Best Games of Chess: 1908-1937

This book is a conflation of two separate collections of Alekhine’s best games: 1908-1923 and 1924-1937. If this book had just been the first volume, I would have given it five stars. I felt that Alekhin’es heart wasn’t in writing the second volume. I think that the first volume had more variations of analysis than the second but also had better placement of diagrams and was therefore easier to read. There were some typos located in the book and I had to occasionally refer to the Dover edition in order to find out what moves were actually played.
The games of the second volume were also less interesting than those of the first; after he became world champion, he was such a dominant player that he seems to have had less passion for the game. It’s as if Alekhine had his own version of Joe Louis “Bum of the Month Club”.