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Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.
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The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and…
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Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.
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It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the…
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The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.
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Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop…
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It is a profound mistake to imagine mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that…
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The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating…
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No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.
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We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in…
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A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history…
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Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when…
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I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!
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One interesting indication of Capablanca's greatness is that to non-chess players his name was better known than the names of all other…
— Fred Reinfeld
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Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple,…
— Bobby Fischer
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India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of…
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The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess.
— Lodewijk Prins
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Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists
— Marcel Duchamp
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All Chess players should have a hobby
— Savielly Tartakower
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Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow…
— Frank Brady
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The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning…
— Israel Albert Horowitz
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Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.
— Marcel Duchamp
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It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
— Anatoly Karpov
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