Artistic Quote by Mikhail Botvinnik

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

— Max Euwe

Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most…

— Garry Kasparov

Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then…

— Bobby Fischer

Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique.

— Mikhail Tal

Capoeira is a game, it is dance, it is fight, it is of war and it is of peace, it is of culture, of…

— Reinaldo Ramos Suassuna

And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless…

— Henri Weenink

For my victory over Capablanca I am indebted primarily to my superiority in the field of psychology. Capablanca played, relying almost exclusively on his…

— Alexander Alekhine

The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this ...

— Anatoly Karpov

“Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes,…

— Anonymous

Simplicity is a matter of taste

— Stephen Hawking

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

— Jon Franklin

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

— Jonathan Swift