Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases.

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.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

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

Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!