Alekhine Quotes

• When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Children, Games, Play

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• Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the last 15-20 years.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Memories, Heart, Years

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• When Alekhine recognizes the weakness in his position he has a tendency to become very aggressive. Patient defence is not for him if he can see the slightest chance of creating an attack. Yet sound strategy often demands that you submit to the opponent's will so as to strengthen your weaknesses and get rid of defects in your game.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Games, Creating, Weakness

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• Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

  Max Euwe

  Art, Home, Men

  "Why You Lose at Chess". Book by Fred Reinfeld (p. 180), 1956.

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• I can comprehend Alekhine's combinations well enough; but where he gets his attacking chances from and how he infuses such life into the very opening - that is beyond me.

  Rudolf Spielmann

  Chance, Enough, Attacking

  "Why You Lose at Chess". Book by Fred Reinfeld, p.160, 1956.

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• Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all.

  Max Euwe

  Real, Long, Preparation

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• I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

  Garry Kasparov

  Style, Chess, Symbiosis

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• If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.

  Bobby Fischer

  Games, Ifs

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• It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Learning, Achievement, Wish

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (2013). “The Art of Chess Combination”, p.205, Courier Corporation

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• I was a professional chess player in Romania, but only a small-time master. When I came to France, I continued playing chess for many years: I played tournaments in numerous countries with mixed results. I wrote and published a book - La Défense Alekhine and translated two others from Russian. I taught chess in schools; I earned more money through chess than through literature.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Country, Book, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.

  Bobby Fischer

  Player, Twenties, Mature

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• Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.

  Irving Chernev

  Moving, Winning, Play

  Irving Chernev (1965). “The most instructive games of chess ever played”

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• Botvinnik's right! When he says such things, then he's right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but to play it. For me chess is more an art than a science. It's been said that Alekhine and I played similar chess, except that he studied more. Yes, perhaps, but I have to say that he played, too.

  Mikhail Tal

  Art, Play, Chess

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