Alexander Koblencs quotes
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“Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in front of me was a quite different person: an enraged lion, although with the fervour typical only of a southerner, with his temperamental patter, which made it hard to follow the torrent of his indignant exclamations and words.”
-- Alexander Koblencs
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“We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.”
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“I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.”
Source : Attributed to Alexander Alekhine in David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld "The Oxford companion to chess" (p. 8), 1996.
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“During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk”
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“The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.”
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