Chess Quotes

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Chess is everything: art, science, and sport. — Anatoly Karpov
Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events. — Benjamin Franklin
A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. — Jose Raul Capablanca
A good player is always lucky. — 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… — Jose Raul Capablanca
In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves,… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so… — Jose Raul Capablanca
The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters. — 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 king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very… — Jose Raul Capablanca
An exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry ... one of… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it is simple and logical method that constitutes the true brilliance of his… — Jose Raul Capablanca
None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca
When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as… — Jose Raul Capablanca
To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame. — Jose Raul Capablanca
Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves must… — Jose Raul Capablanca
The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the value of the Bishop becomes… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the help… — Jose Raul Capablanca
The game might be divided into three parts, the opening, the middle-game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive for, to be… — Jose Raul Capablanca

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