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

It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.

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

I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.

You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.

There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.

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