The following people have beaten Alexander Alekhine (31 October 1892 – 24 March 1946)[1] in a regular game of chess – not a game played at odds.[2][3][4] Alekhine was considered to be one of the best players in history (Comparing top chess players throughout history).[5][6][7]
Games Alekhine lost when he was younger than sixteen years old are marked (U16).
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Simon Alapin, Vilna 1912
Victor Berger, Margate 1937
Ossip Bernstein, Paris 1933 (match, +1=2−1)
Arturo Bonet, Gijon 1945
Efim Bogoljubow, St. Petersburg 1913/14, Triberg 1921 ("secret match", +1=2−1), Margate 1923, Wiesbaden−Berlin−Amsterdam 1929 (World Championship match, +5=9−11), Berne 1932, Germany 1934 (World Championship match, +3=15−8), Bad Nauheim−Stuttgart−Garmisch 1937 (Quadrangular), Salzburg 1942, Warsaw−Lublin−Kraków 1942, Warsaw 1943 (match, +1=0−1)
Mikhail Botvinnik, The Netherlands (AVRO) 1938
Amos Burn, Carlsbad 1911
José Raúl Capablanca, St. Petersburg 1913 (exhibition match, +2=0−0), St. Petersburg 1914 (two games), New York 1927, Buenos Aires 1927 (World Championship match, +3=25−6), Nottingham 1936
Arthur Dake, Pasadena 1932
Dawid Daniuszewski, St. Petersburg 1909
Oldřich Duras, Hamburg 1910
Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky, St. Petersburg 1912 (exhibition game)
Max Euwe, Amsterdam 1926/27 (match, +2=5−3), Zurich 1934, The Netherlands 1935 (World Championship match, +9=13−8), Amsterdam 1936, Bad Nauheim−Stuttgart−Garmisch 1937 (Quadrangular), The Netherlands 1937 (World Championship match, +4=11−10), The Hague 1937 (exhibition match, +2=2−1)
Alexander Evensohn, Kiev 1916 (match, +1=0−2)
Hans Fahrni (U16), Munich 1908 (match, +1=1−1)
Reuben Fine, Margate 1937, The Netherlands (AVRO) 1938 (two games)
Leó Forgács, Hamburg 1910
Sergey von Freymann, Vilna 1912
Joel Fridlizius, Stockholm 1912
Karl Gilg, Semmering 1926
Bernhard Gregory, St. Petersburg 1913/14
Ernst Grünfeld, Vienna 1922
Dawid Janowski, Scheveningen 1913, Mannheim 1914
Paul Johner, Carlsbad 1911
Klaus Junge, Salzburg 1942
Paul Keres, Margate 1937
Boris Koyalovich, St. Petersburg 1912
Emanuel Lasker, St. Petersburg 1914 (two games), New York 1924
Paul Saladin Leonhardt, Carlsbad 1911
Grigory Levenfish, St. Petersburg 1913
Stepan Levitsky, Vilna 1912, St. Petersburg 1913 (match, +3=0−7)
F. López Núñez, Almeria 1945
Moishe Lowtzky, St. Petersburg 1913/14
Francisco Lupi, Caceres 1945, Estoril 1946 (match, +1=1−2)
Hermanis Matisons, Prague 1931 (4th Chess Olympiad)
Antonio Medina, Gijon 1945
Walter Michel, Berne 1925 (Quadrangular)
Vladas Mikėnas, Kemeri 1937
Oskar Naegeli, Berne 1932 (Quadrangular)
Vladimir Nenarokov (U16), Moscow 1908 (match, +3=0−0)
M. Neumann (U16), Düsseldorf 1908
Bjørn Nielsen, Munich 1941
Aron Nimzowitsch, St. Petersburg 1914 (play-off match, +1=0−1), Semmering 1926, New York 1927
Karel Opočenský, Munich 1941
Nikolay Pavlov-Pianov, Moscow 1920 (match, +1=0−1)
Julius Perlis, Carlsbad 1911
Vladimirs Petrovs, Margate 1938
Abram Rabinovich, Carlsbad 1911
Ilya Rabinovich, St. Petersburg 1914 (exhibition game)
Ludwig Rellstab, Munich 1942
Samuel Reshevsky, Nottingham 1936
Richard Réti, New York 1924
Peter Romanovsky, St. Petersburg 1909
Akiba Rubinstein, Moscow 1909 (exhibition game), Carlsbad 1911, Vilna 1912, Vienna 1922
Carl Schlechter, Hamburg 1910, Carlsbad 1911
Vasily Osipovich Smyslov, St. Petersburg 1912
Rudolf Spielmann, Carlsbad 1911, Carlsbad 1923
Siegbert Tarrasch, Hamburg 1910
Savielly Tartakower, Bad Pistyan 1922, Folkestone 1933 (5th Chess Olympiad)
Richard Teichmann, Carlsbad 1911, Berlin 1921 (match, +2=2−2)
Karel Treybal, Carlsbad 1923
Milan Vidmar, Semmering 1926
A. Wiarda (U16), Düsseldorf 1908
Heinrich Wolf, Vienna 1922
Frederick Yates, Hastings 1922, Carlsbad 1923