Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth.

The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession

Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.

Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.

It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.