Alexander Alekhine quotes Born: 10/31/1892 Died: 03/24/1946 Country: russia

• Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. (Alexander Alekhine) [objective]
• 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. (Alexander Alekhine) [art/take/art]
• Chess is not only knowledge and logic. (Alexander Alekhine) [knowledge/logic]
• I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. (Alexander Alekhine) [beauty/more]
• 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) [bad/position/combination]
• I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty. (Alexander Alekhine) [think/achievements]
• 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) [opinion/master/position/fear]
• 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! (Alexander Alekhine) [opponent/willpower/beauty]
• 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. (Alexander Alekhine) [time/mind/excuse/time]
• The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. (Alexander Alekhine) [human/life/happiness/give]

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