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Alexander Alekhine
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“The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the moment he committed the crime.”
Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Chess Life, Vol. 16-18, 1961. p. 113.
“I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.”
Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed in: David Hooper, Kenneth Whyld (1996) The Oxford companion to chess. p. 8.
“Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.”
Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in: M. Yudovich, A. Kotov (2001) The Soviet School of Chess, p. 42.
“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 (1892–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in: Daniel James Brooks (2013) Poetics. Book 1, p. 72.
“During a chess competition a chess master should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk.”
Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Alekhine in page 11 of Essential Chess Quotations by John C. Knudsen (Falls Church, 1998), per Edward Winter