Chess Quote by Alexander Alekhine

Chess is a matter of daily training.

— Vladimir Kramnik

Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is…

— Vladimir Kramnik

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

— Bobby Fischer

Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No matter how…

— Corra May Harris

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…

— Alexander Alekhine

I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising…

— Alexander Alekhine

Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed…

— Alexander Alekhine

Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.

— Alexander Alekhine

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

— Alexander Alekhine

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

— Alexander Alekhine

Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled”

— Victor Hugo