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— Jennifer Shahade"Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks."
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Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.
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