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10 quotes by Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine (Russian: Алекса ндр Алекса ндрович Але хин, pronounced [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ ɐˈlʲexʲɪn]; October 31 [O.S. October 19] 1892 – March 24, 1946) was a Russian chess grandmaster and the fourth World Chess Champion. He is widely considered one of the greatest chess players ever. By the age of 22, Alekhine was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he...
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Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

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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... →

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

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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.

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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.

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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... →

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Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

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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.

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Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for... →

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The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker... →

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