Capablanca Quotes
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Capablanca Quotes & Sayings
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The King's daughter, the Princess Gemdelovely must be given to the Stoorworm.
— Walter Traill Dennison
We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.
— Rachel Held Evans
When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play.
— Vladimir Kramnik
If people think honoring pastors means doing everything they say, why don't they honor Jesus the same way?
— D.R. Silva
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
— Urs Fischer
None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.
— 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
I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
I wasn't worried about unemployment.
— Dick Van Patten
The minute hand moves faster than you think it does.
— John Mayer
The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
Yes, I guess you could say I am a lonerbut I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own — Henry Rollins
An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.
— 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
A good player is always lucky.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
Balance both sides of the equation to attain equilateral-balance your life
— Ikechukwu Joseph
Law is a substitute for love.
— Helen McCloy
To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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 was Capablanca's mother tongue.
— Richard Reti
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.
— 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
That was the nightmare. That was the nightmare That was the
— Maggie Stiefvater
A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.
— 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
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!
— Emanuel Lasker
The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this ...
— Anatoly Karpov
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
Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!
— Jose Raul Capablanca