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.

I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.

Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

Chess is the art of analysis.

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.

If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.