Jose Raul Capablanca Quotes About Chess

Quotes about: Chess

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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.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Moving, Learning, Thinking

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

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Chess, Firsts, Study

• 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.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Motivation, Winning, Player

• 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.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Attitude, Loss, Player

• 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 middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Order, Games, Chess Game

  "Last Lectures". Book by Jose Raul Capablanca, 1966.

• 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.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Art, Games, Accomplishment

• 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.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Player, Knights, Bishops

  José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt

• A good player is always lucky.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Success, Player, Lucky

• Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Winning, Men, Games

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

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Player, Majority, Chess

• 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.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Champion, India, Genius

• The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Mean, Winning, Player

  José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt

• 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.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Mistake, Book, Variation

• 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.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Art, Past, Player

• An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Games, Two, Mind

• In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Order, Games, Chess Game

  "Last Lectures". Book by Jose Raul Capablanca, 1966.

• 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.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Kings, Important, Beginners

• 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.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Knights, Stronger, Majority

• A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Chess Pieces, Numbers, Boards

  José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt

• 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.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Fashion, Games, Play

• 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.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Struggle, Ideas, Imagination

  José Raúl Capablanca (1947). “Hundred Best Games of Chess”

• 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.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Winning, Simple, Play

• 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.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Success, Games, Three

  José Raúl Capablanca (1920). “My Chess Career”

• 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.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Thinking, Peers, Chess

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

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Misunderstood, Majority, Chess

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