The achievements of Cuban legend Jose Raul Capablanca will be remembered with his upcoming induction into the World Chess Hall of Fame in Kendall. But for many local chess aficionados, Capablanca ...

Jose Raul Capablanca José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. One of the greatest players of ...

After decades spent playing simultaneous chess, an 87-year-old Hungarian pensioner has clinched a world record by finally overtaking a total set by 1920s Cuban grandmaster Jose Raul Capablanca.

In Buenos Aires 32 small statues stood upon a polished piece of wood. Sixteen of them were white; behind these sat a middle-aged Cuban, Jose Raul Capablanca, chess champion of the world. Behind ...

1. d4 Notes by J R Capablanca d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Nf3 Nbd7 7. Qc2 c5 8. Rd1 Qa5 9. Bd3 h6 10. Bh4 cxd4 11. exd4 dxc4 12. Bxc4 Nb6 13. Bb3 Bd7 14. O-O The development is ...

Last month, March, represented 110 years since the suave Cuban chess player Jose Raul Capablanca won the great San Sebastian Chess Tournament. The tournament was held in February-March 1911.

José Raúl Capablanca was a chess grandmaster and the World chess champion in 1921 to 1927, Capablanca appeared in the Soviet film Shakhmatnaya goryachka from 1925, which was filmed while he was ...

Dmitry Tursunov and Daniil Medvedev In a recent interview with Vedomostisport, former World No. 20 Dmitry Tursunov compared Daniil Medvedev to former chess champion Jose Raul Capablanca.

In his prime, Capablanca was considered to be the fastest chess player in the world. He took the title in 1921. Capablanca first challenged reigning world chess champion Lasker for the title in 1911.