"He would agree to a draw before playing"

[John McKenna]

"It is no secret that he [Alekhine] played through *some* Olympic tournaments in a glaring state of intoxication and would agree a draw, before playing, against all dangerous opponents in these events."

Is this something everybody knows but I've somehow missed? Against whom did Alekhine agree draws in advance of the game, or has been alleged to have done so?

The stats show that he played in 4 Olympiads - 1931, 1933, 1935 & 1939 (he did not play in 1937) results -

White: =10, +24, -1
Black: =17, +19, -1

Total: =27 (37.50%), +43 (59.72%), -2 (2.78%)

Out of the 27 draws 12 (44.4%) were 50 or more moves.

And only 4 (14.8%) were under 30 moves (the moves of the first 3 show they were obviously not competitive games) -

Alekhine,A-Vidmar,M - Prague 1931, 24 moves
Bogoljubow,E-Alekhine,A - Prague 1931, 24 moves
Tartakower,S-Alekhine,A - Prague 1931, 18 moves
Gruenfeld,E-Alekhine,A - Warsaw 1935, 21 moves

Edit - out of the other 11 draws only 2 - with Keres and Tartakower, again - can be considered to be against "dangerous opponents".

Not much supporting evidence for the claim in the quote (in the above quote) in the stats then.

It is possible that the reputation referred to in the above quote could have arisen after rare instances of him having "had few" before the match and so he pre-agreed draws with a few chosen opponents - his old friend Bogoljubow, draw masters Vidmar & Gruenfeld and Tartakower a quixotic opponent who went on to defeat Alekhine, in 74 moves, in the 1933 Folkestone Ol.