Alexander Alekhine

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able read more

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

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 read more

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.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an read more

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.