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“The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.”

Quote by Anatoly Karpov

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Anatoly Karpov is a legendary chess player, born on May 23, 1951. He is considered one of the greatest chess players of all time, having achieved numerous titles and victories throughout his career. Karpov's chess style was marked by its depth and strategic precision, and he has been a towering figure in the chess world for decades. more

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“When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties - before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.”

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Author:Bobby Fischer

“But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said what he felt. He [Capablanca] wanted to change the rules [of chess] already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorisation and prearrangement. It's a terrible game now. Very uncreative.”

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Author:Bobby Fischer

“I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!”

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Author:Emanuel Lasker

“One interesting indication of Capablanca's greatness is that to non-chess players his name was better known than the names of all other chess masters together! This was due partly to his engaging personality and distinguished appearance: he was one of those exceptional people who at once stand out in a crowd.”

Source: The Immortal Games of Capablanca

“Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear in the entire history of chess, astonishes one with his logic.”

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Author:Garry Kasparov

“Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious than the absolutely correct one.”

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Author:Max Euwe

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

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Author:Max Euwe

“I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.”

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Author:Sasha Cohen

“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.”

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Author:Max Euwe

“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.”

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Author:Max Euwe