Alexander Koblencs famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.
You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.
Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!
During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!
The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that the most far-seeing of them devote as much time to this as to the study of openings.
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

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