Alekhine Quote by Rudolf Spielmann

When Alekhine recognizes the weakness in his position he has a tendency to become very aggressive. Patient defence is not for him if he…

— Emanuel Lasker

Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

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

I've played many times against Lauri Markkanen, so I'm all too familiar with the kind of matchup nightmare he is for defenses.

— Larry Nance, Jr

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

That's why the tactics are so hard against Kyrgios because no one knows what he is going to do.

— Mats Wilander

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— Douglas E. Richards

All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out…

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

“His weakness in this game, and in life, is that he's never prepared for how others will act. They are predetermined but too complex…

— Janna Levin

Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known…

— Anatoly Karpov

Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought…

— Mikhail Tal

“He has two antagonists: the first presses him from behind, from the origin. The second blocks the road ahead. He gives battle to both.…

— Franz Kafka