Alexander Khalifman quotes
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“Never play for the win, never play for the draw, just play chess!”
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“One should respect a defeated opponent!”
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“Rating systems work perfectly for players who play only in round robin closed events. I think most of them are overrated. Organizers invite same people over and over because they have the same rating and their rating stays high.”
-- Alexander Khalifman
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Source : Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.
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“We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.”
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Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
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“The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.”
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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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Source : Alexander Alekhine, Garry Kasparov (2011). “Alexander Alekhine's Best Games: Algebraic edition”, Pavilion Books
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