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Alexander Alekhine has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
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I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
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I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.
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Chess is a matter of vanity.
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Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that…
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Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of…
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I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own…
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During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
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When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because,…
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For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of…
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The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
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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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Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.
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I have also heard that GM Oscar Panno said that -whenever you have to make a rook move and both rooks are…
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It feels a little silly to annotate a game in which I didn't make a single move on my own, just following…
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The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable…
— Alexander Alekhine
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If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the…
— Irving Chernev
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A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two…
— Howard Staunton
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The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game…
— Howard Staunton
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February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness…
— Boris Pasternak
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WEATHERS This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And…
— Thomas Hardy
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