“Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.”

— Alexander Alekhine

Quoted in: M. Yudovich, ‎A. Kotov (2001) The Soviet School of Chess, p. 42.

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Russian / French chess player, chess writer, and chess theo… 1892–1946

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