Alekhine Quote by Jose Raul Capablanca

A great chess player always has a very good memory.

— Leonid Shamkovich

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

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

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

— Boris Spassky

Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All…

— Garry Kasparov

Every Chess master was once a beginner

— Irving Chernev

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being…

— George Steiner

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

— Howard Staunton

I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke.

— Alexei Shirov

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

— Alexander Kotov

There's never before been a Chess player with such a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the game and such an absolutely indomitable will…

— Lisa Lane