Alexander Alekhine

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. ”

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

Chess is not only knowledge and logic. ”

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. ”

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 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. ”

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. ”