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We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Alekhine
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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.
Genius
World
Chess
During A Chess Competition A Chessmaster Should Be A Combination Of A Beast Of Prey And A Monk
Competition
Chess
Beast
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.
Time
Player
Law
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.
New York
Believe
Victory
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.
Home
Views
Games
Chess Is Not Only Knowledge And Logic
Chess
Logic
Chess Will Always Be The Master Of Us All.
Chess
Masters
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.
Communication
Cutting
Pieces
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.
Player
Risk
Innovation
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.
Opportunity
Trying
Opinion
Oh! This Opponent, This Collaborator Against His Will, Whose Notion Of Beauty Always Differs From Yours And Whose Means (strength, Imagination, Technique) Are Often Too Limited To Help You Effectively! What Torment, To Have Your Thinking And Your Phantasy Tied Down By Another Person!
Mean
Thinking
Imagination
I Think That For The Highest Achievements Nowadays... Need To Have The Stable As A Rock Scientific Base. And Also Need To Own Modesty.
Thinking
Rocks
Achievement
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.
Sacrifice
Chess
Praise
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.
Differences
Would Be
Excess
I Study Chess Eight Hours A Day, On Principle.
Eight
Principles
Chess
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.
Player
Thinking
Odds
I Believe That True Beauty Of Chess Is More Than Enough To Satisfy All Possible Demands.
Believe
True Beauty
Demand
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.
Art
Responsibility
Games
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.
Long
Unexpected
Combination
The Purpose Of Human Life And The Sense Of Happiness Is To Give The Maximum What The Man Is Able To Give.
Men
Giving
Purpose
Chess Is A Matter Of Vanity.
Vanity
Chess
Matter
I Consider Chess An Art, And Accept All Those Responsibilities Which Art Places Upon Its Devotees.
Art
Responsibility
Chess
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
Moving
Simple
Thinking
Playing For Complications Is An Extreme Measure That A Player Should Adopt Only When He Cannot Find A Clear And Logical Plan.
Player
Chess
Strategy
Born: October 31, 1892
Died: March 24, 1946
Occupation: Chess Player
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