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Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique. — Mikhail Tal

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

No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca. — Richard Reti

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

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict. — Max Euwe

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

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. — Nikola Tesla

Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft — John Coltrane