"Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and……" — Max Euwe
"Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all."
More Alekhine Quotes
- Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart… — Jose Raul Capablanca
- When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play. — Vladimir Kramnik
- Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to… — Max Euwe
- Botvinnik's right! When he says such things, then he's right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but to play… — Mikhail Tal
- When Alekhine recognizes the weakness in his position he has a tendency to become very aggressive. Patient defence is not… — Emanuel Lasker
- Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal. — Irving Chernev
- I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer. — Garry Kasparov