Capablanca Quote by Mikhail Tal

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 snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we…

— Alexander Alekhine

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

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

— Max Euwe

I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

— Emanuel Lasker

But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said…

— Bobby Fischer

I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which…

— Alexander Kotov

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

— Richard Reti

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

— Anatoly Karpov

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 greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca.

— Irving Chernev

Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the…

— Jose Raul Capablanca