Crosspinner wrote:
I found this interesting comment of Capablanca: Capablanca was quoted in the Charleston Gazette on February 12, 1928: "In chess today everything is known to great players. There are no new moves, no new tactics to consider. If the game is to grow it will have to be modified."
Well, taking this comment literally, and not considering the context, I would have to disagree. If this were the case, then it seems to me that Chess is solved- which is not true. Also, new techniques have been developed since Capablanca's time such as new openings. I think the situation is that all of the low growing fruit has already been picked- we just need people to jump up on the ladders and get the rest.
^ In the sense that they're wrong, I would suppose