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• Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity…
• Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.
• Chess is the art of analysis.
• Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists
• The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all…
• Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately
• Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline
• Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have…
• Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess
• If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put…
• Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.
• If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.

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