Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Alekhine ya wakilci Faransa a kan jirgin farko a gasar Olympics ta 8 na Chess
a Buenos Aires 1939 lokacin da yakin duniya na biyu ya barke a Turai. Taron dukkan shugabannin tawagar, tare da manyan matsayin da Alekhine (Faransa), Savielly Tartakower (Poland), da Albert Becker (Jamus), da shugaban Tarayyar Chess ta Argentina, Augusto de Muro, suka yanke shawarar ci gaba da gasar Olympics.