The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
In order to improve your game, you must study the Endgame before everything else. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
The game might be divided into three parts, the opening, the middle-game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Chess is more than a game or a mental training. It is a distinct attainment. I have always regarded the playing of… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
An exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
In order to improve your game, you must study the Endgame before everything else. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the value of the Bishop… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
“One must attempt to increase whatever weakness there may be in the opponent’s position; or, if there is none, one or more must be… — José Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
