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In his article on Capablanca Chess, Pritchard reports “Capablanca expressed concern that chess could be played out within a short time -- the ‘draw death’ forseen by Lasker a few years earlier. A malaise in the international game had prompted a number of leading masters to voice a need for reform.” This last sentence is all that might reveal that Pritchard shared in this evaluation of chess, since he did not qualify the word “malaise” here. But later in the article, Pritchard is careful to qualify his description of Capablanca's opinion of chess by calling it “the putative sickness diagnosed by Capablanca.” Overall, this article reads as objective reporting of the events surrounding the creation of Capablanca Chess and not as an editorial against the shortcomings of chess.