Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

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.

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

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.

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.

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