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🇫🇷Alexander Alekhine
Literature
1892–1946
"Fortune favors the bold, especially when they are Alekhine."
11 quotes
🇮🇱Yochanan Afek
Music
b. 1952
"I achieved more than I could dream of in chess and in chess composing."
1 quotes
🇨🇺José Raúl Capablanca
Politics
1888–1942
1 quotes
🇷🇺Sergei Prokofiev
Music
1891–1953
"This is my best work, but only because The Flaming Angel is my greatest."
7 quotes
Max Euwe
Mathematics
1901–1981
"I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games."
3 quotes
🇺🇸Wilhelm Steinitz
1836–1900
"Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game."
4 quotes
🇬🇧Jacob Aagaard
b. 1973
"Whenever we see an unprotected piece we must keep our eyes peeled because this is one of the most important ingredients of a combination."
3 quotes
🇩🇪Emanuel Lasker
Mathematics
1868–1941
"Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result...Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values."
9 quotes