Capablanca Chess Quotes
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Capablanca Chess Quotes & Sayings
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They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.
— Bob Marley
You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.
— Robert Fulghum
Because I'm going to try so hard to make you love me.
— Nash Summers
None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this ...
— Anatoly Karpov
To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
A good player is always lucky.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!
— Emanuel Lasker
Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!
— Jose Raul Capablanca
Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.
— Alexander Alekhine
Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.
— Richard Reti
Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight
— Jose Raul Capablanca
Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
Great obstacles make great leaders.
— Billy Diamond
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft
— John Coltrane