Max Euwe Quotes
- Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of end-games and other…
- Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious than…
- The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.
- He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most effacious…
- The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt…
- Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness of his make-up…
- Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation
- Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post…
- Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player
- Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
- Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all.