“With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again.”
Quoted in: Edward G. Winter (1989) Capablanca: A Compendium of Games, Notes, Articles..., p. 307; on his great rival José Raúl Capablanca.
Alexander Alekhine: Chess
Alexander Alekhine was Russian / French chess player, chess writer, and chess theoretician. Explore interesting quotes on chess.
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“I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.”
Attributed in: David Hooper, Kenneth Whyld (1996) The Oxford companion to chess. p. 8.
“Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.”
Quoted in: M. Yudovich, A. Kotov (2001) The Soviet School of Chess, p. 42.
Quoted in: Daniel James Brooks (2013) Poetics. Book 1, p. 72.