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Chess Quotes Jose Raul Capablanca

The document provides advice on how to improve at chess. It recommends studying endgames first before openings and middlegames, as endings can be studied independently. Players should view losses as lessons to learn from rather than something shameful. The document also discusses different chess players' strengths, particularly their endgame abilities, and the importance of pawn play and king utilization in endings.

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Chess Quotes Jose Raul Capablanca

The document provides advice on how to improve at chess. It recommends studying endgames first before openings and middlegames, as endings can be studied independently. Players should view losses as lessons to learn from rather than something shameful. The document also discusses different chess players' strengths, particularly their endgame abilities, and the importance of pawn play and king utilization in endings.

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“People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons,

and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You must also have
the courage of your convictions. If you think your move is good, make
it.”

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

“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.”

“Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of
endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so
often, few have mastered them thoroughly. They are often of a very
difficult nature, and sometimes while apparently very simple they are
in reality extremely intricate.”

“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.”

“None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the


majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.”

“Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it
is simple and logical method that constitutes the true brilliance of his
play, if it is considered from the viewpoint of the great masters.”
“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.”

“The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a
burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a
very important and aggressive piece, and the beginner should realize
this, and utilize his king as much as possible.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“In order to improve your game, you must study the Endgame before
everything else.”
“Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of
science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the help of
our imagination turn the struggle of technique into a battle of ideas.”

“The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often


means the winning of the game.”

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

“In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before
everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and
mastered by themselves, the middle game and opening must be
studied in relation to the end game.”

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

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


apparent”

“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”

“A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the


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

“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)”

“Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion


which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.”

“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.”

“The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the


games of the masters.”

“A good player is always lucky.”

“During the course of many years I have observed that a great number
of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of
visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and
find relief from the preoccupations of their work.”

“The game might be divided into three parts, the opening, the middle-
game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive for, to be
equally efficient in the three parts.”
“An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.”

“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.”

“To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame


compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied
endings of the first rank.”

“The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past
masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their
handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the
strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore
inferior to them.”

“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.”

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