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.

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.

Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.

Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!

As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.

I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.