At a centennial celebration for Cleveland Main Library on May 10, officials announced several major gifts, including the bulk ...

In 1886, the first match in history for the title of World Chess Champion took place in the USA. Steinitz's opponent was the ...

Once considered a niche pursuit reserved for geeks, chess has undergone a transformation in Kerala over the past few years. While the game has always had its sp ...

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.

clarifies on Viswanathan Anand's withdrawal "My idols in chess were Jose Capablanca and Boris Spassky. And when I managed to beat Spassky, it was the greatest of victories and, in a sense ...

"My idols in chess were Jose Capablanca and Boris Spassky. And when I managed to beat Spassky, it was the greatest of victories and, in a sense, defeating something inside me by beating my teacher ...

In this article Phillips tells how the great chess champion, Capablanca, was so superior to all competition that it was believed by experts that he would never be beaten in match play. Yet ...

Sixteen of them were white; behind these sat a middle-aged Cuban, Jose Raul Capablanca, chess champion of the world. Behind the other 16, which were black, sat Alexander Alekhine, a Russian ...

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 ...

“The fact that even under such conditions (inexperience in the Western game) he succeeded in becoming a champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary,” Capablanca ...