“With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again.”

Quoted in: Edward G. Winter (1989) Capablanca: A Compendium of Games, Notes, Articles..., p. 307; on his great rival José Raúl Capablanca.

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Russian / French chess player, chess writer, and chess theo… 1892–1946

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