I can comprehend Alekhine's combinations well enough; but…

I was a professional chess player in Romania, but only a small-time master. When I came to France, I continued playing chess for many…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all.

— Max Euwe

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture…

— Max Euwe

When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play.

— Vladimir Kramnik

When Alekhine recognizes the weakness in his position he has a tendency to become very aggressive. Patient defence is not for him if he…

— Emanuel Lasker

Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.

— Irving Chernev

Botvinnik's right! When he says such things, then he's right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but to play it. For me chess…

— Mikhail Tal

Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.

— Bobby Fischer

I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

— Garry Kasparov

Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was…

— Bobby Fischer

It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner…

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky