Quotes from Alexander Alekhine

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.