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
committed considered drunk excuse fact mind player statement time
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 that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
against assistance beauty differs limited means notion whose yours
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!
psychology important chess
Psychology is the most important factor in chess.
chess beast strategy
During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.
chess lifetime enough
A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.
player chess logical
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.
mistake chess bigs
You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.
differences would-be excess
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.
fighting play demand
I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.
chess
Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!
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.
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.
competition chess beast
During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk