Jose Raul Capablanca Quotes
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None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!
— Jose Raul Capablanca
To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.
— 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
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 winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.
— 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
Big Brother is watching ... look busy.
— Brandon Boyd
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
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
— Voltaire
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
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.
— Audrey Niffenegger