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Alexander Alekhine

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Alexander Alekhine, a Russian chess player, is considered one of the greatest chess players of the 20th century. He held the world championship title from 1914 to 1935 and had a profound impact on the development of the game.

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“Combination is a soul of chess.”

Soul Chess Combination

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.”

Hours Principles Study Eight Chess

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“Chess will always be the master of us all.”

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.”

Art Chess Appreciated

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.”

Enough Lifetime Chess

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all out home-bred chess philosophers, but with his views on Morphy, whom he tries to discredit completely, it is of course impossible to agree.”

Trying Home Courses Games Views Impossible Aspect Agree Philosopher Chess Theoretical Discredit

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.”

Firsts Teach Chess Objectives Objectivity Chess Pawns

Author:Alexander Alekhine

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

Believe Enough I Believe Demand Chess True Beauty

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14. In blitz games he gave all the St. Petersburg players odds of five minutes to one - and he won.”

Thinking Games Five Imagine Player Minutes Chess Possessed Odds Five Minutes Blitz Capablanca

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.”

World Lost Genius Chess Capablanca

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out of his overwhelming victory in New York, 1927, and his underestimation of mine.”

Believe Reason New York Mines Victory Defeat Chess Superiors Chiefs Overwhelming

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.”

Art Responsibility Accepting Chess Devotee

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“Chess is a matter of vanity.”

Matter Chess Vanity

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk”

Should Competition Chess Combination Beast Monk Prey

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens, there is a very simple answer. I think up my own moves, and I make my opponent think up his”

Thinking Happens Moving My Own Simple Answers Picks Chess Glad Opponents

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of my opponent's strengths and weaknesses; thirdly, a higher aim than momentary satisfaction. I see this aim as being scientific and artistic achievements, which place the game of chess on a par with other arts.”

Art Success Three Games Understanding My Own Awareness Higher Achievement Weakness Aim Satisfaction Chess Factors Artistic Opponents Accurate Momentary Strength And Weakness

Author:Alexander Alekhine

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

Men Giving Humans Able Purpose He Man Human Life Maximum

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“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.”

Trying Problem Opportunity Opinion Position Masters Solve Owners Obliged Simplification

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“Chess is not only knowledge and logic”

Author:Alexander Alekhine

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

Mind Littles Facts Law Time Player Crime Committed Excuse Chess Statements Instance Drunk Law Breakers

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.”

Play Fighting Given Style Position Demand Aim Chess Fantastic Strategic Tactical

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“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.”

Long Hard Dangerous Position Difficulty Combination Unexpected Delusion

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.”

Play Sides Strategy Chess Boards Favourite Both Sides Playing Chess

Book:My best games of chess, 1924-1937

Source: My best games of chess, 1924-1937

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

Thinking Needs Rocks Achievement Highest Stable Modesty

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“For my victory over Capablanca I am indebted primarily to my superiority in the field of psychology. Capablanca played, relying almost exclusively on his rich intuitive talent. But for the chess struggle nowadays one needs a subtle knowledge of human nature, an understanding of the opponent's psychology.”

Needs Humans Understanding Struggle Rich Psychology Talent Human Nature Fields Victory Chess Opponents Subtle Superiority Intuitive Indebted Capablanca

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“Psychology is the most important factor in chess.”

Important Psychology Chess Factors

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, technique) are often too limited to help you effectively! What torment, to have your thinking and your phantasy tied down by another person!”

Thinking Mean Persons Helping Imagination Notion Technique Chess Opponents Tied Torment Collaborators

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.”

Ifs Bigs Mistake Masters Chess

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!”

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“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.”

Art Games Responsibility Chess

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.”

Firsts Young Player Risk Masters Consequence Innovation Details Chess Graves Youngsters

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.”

Should Clear Player Plans Strategy Extremes Chess Logical Complication

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases.”

Lines Cases Pieces Cutting Communication Chess Minors Retreat Exceptional Lines Of Communication

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.”

Difficult Sacrifice Possibility Praise Worthy Chess Calculations Tactical

Book:Alexander Alekhine's Best Games: Algebraic edition

Source: Alexander Alekhine's Best Games: Algebraic edition

“The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch.”

Littles Would Be Differences Cases Degrees Strategy Chess Conception Excess Originality Criteria Infallible Strategist

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.”

Masters Crosses Strategy Chess Beast Monk Prey Tournaments

Author:Alexander Alekhine

About the Author

Born: October 31, 1892
Died: March 24, 1946
Known for: Chess Player
Quotes: 36

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