Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

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

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 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.

He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most effacious way so as to clarify the position as desired is Capablanca's own.