Top 25 Alexander Alekhine Quotes (2024 Update)

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.”

1. “Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.”

2. “During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.”

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

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “Psychology is the most important factor in chess.”

4. “Psychology is the most important factor in chess.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “Chess is a matter of vanity.”

5. “Chess is a matter of vanity.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.”

6. “I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “Chess is not only knowledge and logic.”

7. “Chess is not only knowledge and logic.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “Combination is a soul of chess.”

8. “Combination is a soul of chess.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.”

9. “A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “As a rule, so-called “positional” sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.”

10. “As a rule, so-called “positional” sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.”

— Alexander Alekhine

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

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

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.”

12. “I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk.”

14. “During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.”

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

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I’m very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens, there is a very simple answer. I think up my own moves, and I make my opponent think up his.”

16. “When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I’m very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens, there is a very simple answer. I think up my own moves, and I make my opponent think up his.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.”

17. “Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.”

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

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch.”

19. “The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.”

20. “Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out of his overwhelming victory in New York, 1927, and his underestimation of mine.”

21. “I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out of his overwhelming victory in New York, 1927, and his underestimation of mine.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all out home-bred chess philosophers, but with his views on Morphy, whom he tries to discredit completely, it is of course impossible to agree.”

22. “That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all out home-bred chess philosophers, but with his views on Morphy, whom he tries to discredit completely, it is of course impossible to agree.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!”

23. “Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!”

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Alexander Alekhine Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.”

26. “Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.”

— Alexander Alekhine

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

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

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “Never before and never since have I seen – and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14. In blitz games he gave all the St. Petersburg players odds of five minutes to one – and he won.”

28. “Never before and never since have I seen – and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14. In blitz games he gave all the St. Petersburg players odds of five minutes to one – and he won.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Quote: “The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases.”

29. “The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases.”

— Alexander Alekhine

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