The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare…

I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

— Emanuel Lasker

Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed…

— Alexander Alekhine

I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which…

— Alexander Kotov

Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most…

— Garry Kasparov

Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship,…

— Alexander Koblencs

Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious…

— Max Euwe

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

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

— Richard Reti

For my victory over Capablanca I am indebted primarily to my superiority in the field of psychology. Capablanca played, relying almost exclusively on his…

— Alexander Alekhine

I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.

— Max Euwe

One interesting indication of Capablanca's greatness is that to non-chess players his name was better known than the names of all other chess masters…

— Fred Reinfeld

The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this ...

— Anatoly Karpov

As with Steinitz, Fischer's genius has often been concealed by controversies away from the board. Like Lasker, Fischer has raised chess to new financial…

— Andrew Soltis

Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness of his…

— Max Euwe