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Top 30 José Raul Capablanca Quotes (2025 Update)

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “A good player is always lucky.”

1. “A good player is always lucky.”

— José Raul Capablanca

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José Raul Capablanca Quote: “You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.”

2. “You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and opening must be studied in relation to the end game.”

3. “In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and opening must be studied in relation to the end game.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.”

4. “To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You must also have the courage of your convictions. If you think your move is good, make it.”

5. “People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You must also have the courage of your convictions. If you think your move is good, make it.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.”

6. “Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.”

7. “Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “In order to improve your game, you must study the Endgame before everything else.”

8. “In order to improve your game, you must study the Endgame before everything else.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight.”

9. “Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.”

10. “The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.”

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José Raul Capablanca Quote: “When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as a science, or an art, or a sport, all the same psychology bears no relation to it and only stands in the way of real chess.”

11. “When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as a science, or an art, or a sport, all the same psychology bears no relation to it and only stands in the way of real chess.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “An hour’s history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.”

12. “An hour’s history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so often, few have mastered them thoroughly. They are often of a very difficult nature, and sometimes while apparently very simple they are in reality extremely intricate.”

13. “Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so often, few have mastered them thoroughly. They are often of a very difficult nature, and sometimes while apparently very simple they are in reality extremely intricate.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.”

14. “The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.”

15. “Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the value of the Bishop becomes more evident to him, and of course there is, or should be, a corresponding decease in his estimation of the value of the Knight as compared to the bishop.”

16. “The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the value of the Bishop becomes more evident to him, and of course there is, or should be, a corresponding decease in his estimation of the value of the Knight as compared to the bishop.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.”

17. “In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent.”

18. “As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.”

19. “A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!”

20. “Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the last 15-20 years.”

21. “Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the last 15-20 years.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it is simple and logical method that constitutes the true brilliance of his play, if it is considered from the viewpoint of the great masters.”

22. “Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it is simple and logical method that constitutes the true brilliance of his play, if it is considered from the viewpoint of the great masters.”

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José Raul Capablanca Quote: “During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work.”

23. “During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work.”

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José Raul Capablanca Quote: “The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.”

24. “The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.”

25. “None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.”

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José Raul Capablanca Quote: “The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very important and aggressive piece, and the beginner should realize this, and utilize his king as much as possible.”

26. “The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very important and aggressive piece, and the beginner should realize this, and utilize his king as much as possible.”

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José Raul Capablanca Quote: “It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one of the most profound researchers into the thruth of the game, which was hidden from his contemporaries.”

27. “It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one of the most profound researchers into the thruth of the game, which was hidden from his contemporaries.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “The game might be divided into three parts, the opening, the middle-game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive for, to be equally efficient in the three parts.”

28. “The game might be divided into three parts, the opening, the middle-game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive for, to be equally efficient in the three parts.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “Although the Knight is generally considered to be on a par with the Bishop in strength, the latter piece is somehat stronger in the majority of cases in which they are opposed to each other.”

29. “Although the Knight is generally considered to be on a par with the Bishop in strength, the latter piece is somehat stronger in the majority of cases in which they are opposed to each other.”

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José Raul Capablanca Quote: “Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings.”

30. “Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.”

31. “To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.”

— José Raul Capablanca

José Raul Capablanca Quote: “I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.”

32. “I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.”

— José Raul Capablanca

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