Chess Legend Quotes

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

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.

The Beatles in 1963 came to America and became international celebrities, but Bobby Fischer was one of the first, as Elvis was, more in terms of the message created around him.

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

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

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.