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• It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.
• I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer…
• You will already have noticed how often Capablanca repeated moves, often returning to positions which he had had before. This is not…
• Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!
• The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.
• When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first…
• I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter…
• All candidate moves should be identified at once and listed in one's head. This job cannot be done piecemeal, by first examining…
• You must not let your opponent know how you feel.
• The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that…
• Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep…
• In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

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