“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.
Alexandre Aleksandrovitch Alekhine , né à Moscou le 19 octobre 1892 et mort à Estoril le 24 mars 1946, est un joueur d'échecs russe naturalisé français en 1927.
Quatrième champion du monde des échecs de 1927 à 1935 et de 1937 à sa mort, il fut le premier champion du monde d'échecs à reconquérir son titre et le seul à mourir en portant son titre. Il a donné son nom à une ouverture, la défense Alekhine, qu'il employa à Budapest en 1921.
“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.
On the Zeitnot problem.
Source: Chess Life, Vol. 16-18, 1961. p. 113.
“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.
“It was impossible to win against Capablanca; against Alekhine it was impossible to play.”
Paul Keres, quoted in: Bruce Pandolfini (1992) Pandolfini's Chess Complete: The Most Comprehensive Guide. p. 208.