A Lifetime In Not Enough To Learn

I Do Not Play Chess – I Fight At Chess. Therefore, I Willingly Combine The Tactical With The Strategic, The Fantastic With The Scientific, The Combinative With The Positional, And I Aim To Respond To The Demands Of Each Given Position.

Never Before And Never Since Have I Seen - And I Cannot Even Imagine, Such An Amazing Rapidity Of Chess Thinking That Capablanca Possessed In 1913-14. In Blitz Games He Gave All The St. Petersburg Players Odds Of Five Minutes To One - And He Won.

I Did Not Believe I Was Superior To Him. Perhaps The Chief Reason For His Defeat Was The Overestimation Of His Own Powers Arising Out Of His Overwhelming Victory In New York, 1927, And His Underestimation Of Mine.

The Fact That A Player Is Very Short Of Time Is To My Mind, As Little To Be Considered As An Excuse As, For Instance, The Statement Of The Law-breaker That He Was Drunk At The Time He Committed The Crime.

Chess Will Always Be The Master Of Us All.