Alexander Alekhine Quotes About Chess

Quotes about: Chess

• Psychology is the most important factor in chess.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Psychology, Important, Chess

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

  Alexander Alekhine

  Art, Responsibility, Chess

• 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

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

  Alexander Alekhine

  Art, Chess, Appreciated

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Alexander Alekhine

  Chess, Lifetime, Enough

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

  Alexander Alekhine

  Chess

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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”

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Genius, World, Chess

• 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.

  Alexander Alekhine

  New York, Believe, Victory

• Chess is a matter of vanity.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Vanity, Chess, Matter

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

  Alexander Alekhine

  Competition, Chess, Beast

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Communication, Cutting, Pieces

• 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

• 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

• 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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