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Jose Raul Capablanca

José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. A chess prodigy, he is considered by many as one of the greatest players of all time, widely renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play.

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Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight

Book, Glasses, Make, Player, Use

Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings.

Book, Forget, Mistake, Value, Variation

You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.

Becoming, Hundreds, Lose, Motivation, Player, Winning

To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.

Chess, Endgame, Firsts, Improve, Study

Chess is more than a game or a mental training. It is a distinct attainment. I have always regarded the playing of chess and the accomplishment of a good game as an art, and something to be admired no less than an artist's canvas or the product of a sculptor's chisel. Chess is a mental diversion rather than a game. It is both artistic and scientific.

Accomplishment, Art, Chess, Games, Mental

A good player is always lucky.

Good, Lucky, Player, Success

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

Chess, Lasker, Majority, Master, Misunderstood

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.

Amateurs, Chess, Emanuel, Majority, Player, Players

Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the score. - (to Stalin in Moscow 1936 where he finished in 1st place, 1 point ahead of Botvinnik)

1St, Cheating, Order, Player, Points

Most players. . . do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves must regard their losses as lessons and learn from them what sorts of things to avoid in the future.

Attitude, Learn, Loss, Losses, Player, Things

An exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry. . . one of them was Dr. Bernstein. I had the good fortune to play him in the first round. , and beat him in such fashion as to obtain the Rothschild prize for the most brilliant game. . . a profound feeling of respect for my ability remained throughout the rest of the contest.

Fashion, Game, Games, Play, Rest

Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the last 15-20 years.

Heart, Memories, Memory, Played, Possesses, Years

Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!

Ballet, Chess, Excellent, Time

As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent

Apparent, Became, Chess, Down, Superiority

The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the value of the Bishop becomes more evident to him, and of course there is, or should be, a corresponding decease in his estimation of the value of the Knight as compared to the bishop.

Bishops, Decease, Evident, Knights, Player, Weaker

Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.

Champion, Genius, India, Khan, Reveals, Rules

Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.

Certain, Games, Intellectual, Qualities, Quality, Scientific

When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as a science, or an art, or a sport, all the same psychology bears no relation to it and only stands in the way of real chess.

Art, Play, Real, Relation, Sports, Stands

I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.

Book, Games, Inadequate, Lost, Purpose

Although the Knight is generally considered to be on a par with the Bishop in strength, the latter piece is somehat stronger in the majority of cases in which they are opposed to each other.

Cases, Knights, Majority, Piece, Stronger

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