Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14. In blitz games he gave all the St. Petersburg players odds of five minutes to one - and he won.

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

The fact that a player is very short of time is to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

Chess will always be the master of us all.

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.