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.

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

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.

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.

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

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