One name keeps popping up in this phase – Cuba’s world champion, Jose Raul Capablanca (1888-1942) properly remembered as the “Cuban Chess Machine “ for his unerring accuracy of play.

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List of World Chess Championship winners by country Russia has the most world champions, with Mikhail Botvinnik being the most successful among the seven players.

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 ...

Jose Raul Capablanca was an exceptional player recognized, also, as «The Mozart of Chess»; his best games are considered a paradigm of the simplicity of geniuses, true works of art, because his deep ...

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 ...

GEORGE TOWN: Weeks after realising his dream of becoming an international master (IM) at chess, a 15-year-old Penang boy has now set his sights on becoming Malaysia’s first chess grandmaster.

The Grandmaster (GM) title – the highest in Fide’s rank of player titles — was created in 1950, long after Sultan Khan disappeared from the chess scene ...

The Cuban José Raúl Capablanca in 1920/Image: public domain on Wikimedia Commons Bernstein, a legal and financial advisor for companies (banks, insurers, etc.), continued to progress in chess. In 1918 ...

Jose Raul Capablanca Jose Raul Capablanca was a Cuban grandmaster who is often considered one of the greatest players of all time.