Quotes by Max Euwe - Page 1

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation
Max Euwe / Mathematician
Playing Chess
Tactics
Thinking
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Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.
Max Euwe / Mathematician
Observation
Strategy
Tactics
Thought
Require
Requires
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I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.
Max Euwe / Mathematician
Games
Humble
Study
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Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
Max Euwe / Mathematician
Sports
Achievement
Chess
Games
Remains
Sport
Main
Object
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The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.
Max Euwe / Mathematician
Chess
Essence
Greatness
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Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player
Max Euwe / Mathematician
Chess Game
Games
Player
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Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.
Max Euwe / Mathematician
Aim
Checkmate
Chess
Giving
Player
Good Game Will
Game
Opponent
Sees
Whoever
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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.
Max Euwe / Mathematician
Art
Home
Men
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Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all.
Max Euwe / Mathematician
Long
Preparation
Real
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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.
Max Euwe / Mathematician
Chess
Machines
Titles
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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.
Max Euwe / Mathematician
Believe
Chess
Style
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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.
Max Euwe / Mathematician
Art
Chess
Critical Moments
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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.
Max Euwe / Mathematician
Imagination
Games
Simple
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Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness of his make-up and can only be partially compensated by his employing his time allowance to the full.
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Chess
Play
Weakness
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