Alexander Alekhine Quotes

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

  Alexander Alekhine

  Mistake, Chess, Bigs

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• Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!

  Alexander Alekhine

  Chess

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• 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.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Fighting, Play, Style

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

  Alexander Alekhine

  Chess, Beast, Strategy

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• Psychology is the most important factor in chess.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Psychology, Important, Chess

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• A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Chess, Lifetime, Enough

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• Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Objectivity, Chess, Firsts

  "The Soviet School of Chess". Book by Alexander Kotov, p. 42, 2001.

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• 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.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Success, Art, Games

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• Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Art, Chess, Appreciated

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

  Alexander Alekhine

  Play, Boards, Chess

  Alexander Alekhine (1955). “My best games of chess, 1924-1937”

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• 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.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Struggle, Psychology, Understanding

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• Combination is a soul of chess.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Soul, Chess, Combination

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

  Alexander Alekhine

  Player, Chess, Strategy

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• 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

  Alexander Alekhine

  Moving, Simple, Thinking

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

  Alexander Alekhine

  Art, Responsibility, Chess

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

  Alexander Alekhine

  Men, Giving, Purpose

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• 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.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Art, Responsibility, Games

  "Poetics". Book by Daniel James Brooks (Book 1, p. 72), 2013.

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• 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.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Long, Unexpected, Combination

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• Chess is a matter of vanity.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Vanity, Chess, Matter

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• 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.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Sacrifice, Chess, Praise

  Alexander Alekhine, Garry Kasparov (2011). “Alexander Alekhine's Best Games: Algebraic edition”, Pavilion Books

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• 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.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Player, Risk, Innovation

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• I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Eight, Principles, Chess

  Attributed to Alexander Alekhine in David Hooper and ‎Kenneth Whyld "The Oxford companion to chess" (p. 8), 1996.

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

  Alexander Alekhine

  Believe, True Beauty, Demand

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• 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.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Differences, Would Be, Excess

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• 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.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Player, Thinking, Odds

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