When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens, there is a very simple answer. I think up my own moves, and I make my opponent think up his

When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens, there is a very simple answer. I think up my own moves, and I make my opponent think up his

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

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

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.

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.