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…

- Jose Raul Capablanca

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

- Jose Raul Capablanca

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

- Jose Raul Capablanca

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

- Jose Raul Capablanca

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

- Jose Raul Capablanca

A good player is always lucky.

- Jose Raul Capablanca

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

- Jose Raul Capablanca

Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves must r…

- Jose Raul Capablanca

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, …

- Jose Raul Capablanca