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Alexei (Alexey) Alekhine (1888–1939) was a Russian chess master and the brother of World Chess Champion Alexander Alekhine.His father was a wealthy landowner a Marshal of the Nobility and a member of the State Duma and his mother was an heiress to an industrial fortune.Both he and his younger brother Alexander were taught chess by their mother.Alexei drew with Harry Nelson Pillsbury when the American master gave a simultaneous blindfold display in Moscow in 1902.