Capablanca Quote by Richard Reti

No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.

— Richard Reti

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

Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship,…

— Alexander Koblencs

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's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

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

Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed…

— Alexander Alekhine

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

— Emanuel Lasker

My first film was a Malayalam film where I played a small character and then my big debut happened in Kannada, which is also…

— Shraddha Srinath

The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes…

— Amin Maalouf

Apart from English, I speak my mother tongue Malayalam, as well as Tamil, Telugu, and a bit of Kannada and French.

— Asin

“God in His infinite wisdom blessed humans with redundant tongues: one to outfit the mouth for speech. And a mother tongue to give it…

— David B. Lentz