Endgame Player Quotes by Jose Raul Capablanca

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• A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.
• A good player is always lucky.
• You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds…
• In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and…
• Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they…
• The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.
• The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.
• The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the…
• An exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry…
• Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it is simple and logical method that constitutes the true…
• None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.
• When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess…

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