Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhinewas a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion. He is widely considered one of the greatest chess players ever...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionChess Player
Date of Birth31 October 1882
CountryRussian Federation
player law drunk
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.
long unexpected combination
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.
vanity matter chess
Chess is a matter of vanity.
player thinking 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.
world chess genius
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.
communication cutting pieces
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.
sacrifice chess praise
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.
new-york believe victory
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.
competition chess beast
During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
chess logic
Chess is not only knowledge and logic
opportunity trying opinion
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.
player risk innovation
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.
objectivity chess firsts
Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
soul chess combination
Combination is a soul of chess.