Alexander Alekhine Quotes - Page 2

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• Chess will always be the master of us all.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Chess, Masters

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• 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.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Opportunity, Trying, Opinion

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

  Alexander Alekhine

  Thinking, Rocks, Achievement

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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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• 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

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• 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.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Home, Views, Games

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• 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

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

  Alexander Alekhine

  Competition, Chess, Beast

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• Chess is not only knowledge and logic

  Alexander Alekhine

  Chess, Logic

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• 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.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Time, Player, Law

  Chess Life, Volume 16-18, p. 113, 1961.

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• 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

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