On Nov 20, 12:37 pm, Mike Murray wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:38:50 GMT, "Chess One"
wrote:

I always wanted to novelise a conversation between Keres Alekhine during
that Munich tournament, since /surely/ Alekhine would have told Keres his
opinion of the /likely/ result of returning to the S. U. and what a massive
risk that was, whereas going the other way was no risk at all, and he could
be, -I agree with you-, Champion of the West, maybe the World, but certainly
get paid real dollars for it.

Did Keres' family situation allow this?

I don't know about during most of WW II, but toward the end, when
the USSR was re-taking Estonia from the Germans, Keres had a chance to
get away. However, it would have been escape for him alone. He was not
willing to abandon his wife and children.