Attributed

• Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

• Highly cultured with interests in all fields of human knowledge, a man of impeccable comportment, great modesty ... one of the favorites of all chessplayers.
  • On Boris Spassky

• If the distinguishing feature of a genius is that he is far ahead compared with his epoch, then Morphy was a chess genius in the complete sense of the word.

• I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.