Euwe Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its utility or historic interest. Everything has been chosen entirely because of its aesthetic significance; its form, feeling, structure, and plastic values.

Frank Crowninshield

#3. 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

#4. It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Nicolas Chamfort

#5. 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

#6. Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Joyce Meyer

#7. I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.

Max Euwe

#8. Several respected climate scientists have told me that there would be even more vocal skeptics if they were not afraid of losing funding, much of which is controlled by politically correct organizations.

Peter Friedman

#9. Being honest to yourself is the smartest you can ever do.Do no allow the words of others to lead you to a road of confussion, follow your heart beat.

Osunsakin Adewale

#10. Maybe the princess could save herself."
"That sounds like a pretty good story too.

Marissa Meyer

#11. Absolute autonomy inevitably leads to tyranny.

Jack Provonsha

#12. The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.

Max Euwe

#13. Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

Max Euwe

#14. 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.

Max Euwe

#15. 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

#16. Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these Euwe books, which, I admit, are very good for the ordinary club player. But once you've reached a certain strength you get the impression that everything that Euwe writes is a lie.

Bent Larsen

#17. My only wish is I die real cause that truth hurts and those lies kill.

Drake

#18. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.'" He

Viola Shipman

#19. Men always like to blame women for everything that goes wrong. Look at Adam and Eve.

Anne Fortier

#20. Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits the most inexplicable mistakes in thoroughly favorable positions, and that this weakness has consistently tarnished his record.

Hans Kmoch

#21. Because we don't really sparkle.

John G. Hartness

#22. A painting was a translation of the language of my heart.

Amy Tan

#23. 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

#24. With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today.

Donald Sadoway

#25. Stop seeing what you want to see, Merik Nihar, and start seeing what's really here!

Susan Dennard

#26. 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

#27. 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