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Avoiding Quote by Max Euwe

“The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for…” quote by Max Euwe — Download Open image

“The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.”

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Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious…

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Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

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Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

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I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.

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Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness of his…

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Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player

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Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of end-games and…

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The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to…

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He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most…

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Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture…

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Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all.

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