Capa wrote a letter to The Observer, in part: 'Champions are bound to arouse all sorts of comments, either from their enemies or from people who do not like their play or their personality. However, a player like Mr. Blackburne, and eighty years old at that, should not, for publication at least, qualify the games of a championship match as "woodshifting" when the losing player in the match has given, in the course of his long career, conclusive proof that not only was he Mr. Blackburne's superior, but also the superior of any other player whom he had met until the last match.

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'If Mr. Blackburne does not like that kind of play and prefers brilliant combinations, I believe he can find a few of them amongst my games. In fact, in that line I have a record that neither Mr. Blackburne himself nor any other master can equal, viz., that of having won the brilliancy prize in every tournament in which I have played where such a prize was given. Yet I can assure the Chess public that it is far easier, for me at least, to make one of those combinations than to have played throughout the fourteen games of the match without giving my opponent a single chance to score, at the same time inculcating into his mind such a profound conviction of the inutility of his efforts to make him quit.'

'The object of the match was to prove who could beat who. I played accordingly, and since my style of play was succeeding, it was not up to me to change from something sound which produced good results to something else which would have been mere speculation and might have turned victory into defeat.

'In conclusion, I will say that if the games are analyzed in the proper spirit it will be found (as the notes in my book of the match show) that most of the games were full of possibilities, and that some of them were of the hardest and most difficult type, where the loss of a single "tempo" might have brought defeat. Consequently, Mr. Blackburne's utterances wih regard to the match are unpardonable, for a player of his standing, whose opinion is avidly sought by the English chess playing public, must have facts, not mere fancies, to back up his opinions.'

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