Chess Genius Quotes by Alexander Alekhine

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• Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
• I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
• I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.
• Chess is a matter of vanity.
• Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that…
• Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of…
• I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own…
• During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
• When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because,…
• For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of…
• The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
• In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of…

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