Alexander Alekhine Quotes

Alexander Alekhine was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest chess players in history. Alekhine's strategic brilliance, tactical skill, and innovative approach to the game set him apart from his contemporaries. His contributions to chess theory and his numerous accomplishments in competitive play have solidified his status as a chess legend. Alekhine's games and analyses continue to inspire and educate chess players around the world.

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than e... -Alexander Alekhine

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

Alexander Alekhine Quotes

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