Max Euwe

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

— Max Euwe

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

— Max Euwe

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

— Max Euwe

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

— Max Euwe

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

— Max Euwe

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

— Max Euwe

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess…

— Max Euwe

Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of…

— Max Euwe

The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient…

— Max Euwe

He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in…

— Max Euwe

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home…

— Max Euwe

Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at…

— Max Euwe