Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious than the absolutely correct one.

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of end-games and other simple positions which respond to technique rather than to imagination.

The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.

Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.