The creative heritage of A.A. Alekhine has had and continues to have a huge impact on the formation of many outstanding chess players. In his book, published in our country almost 60 years ago, the fourth world champion with all objectivity and self-criticism talks about the difficult path to the chess Olympus, the pinnacle of which was the victory over X.R. Capablanca in the match for the world championship. The second part of the book contains articles, letters and parties of both Alekhine himself and his contemporaries belonging to the same period. For a wide range of chess players.