Today’s Vintage Chess Humor
From the November 1968 ChessReview magazine, which I suppose correctly sums up the then prevailing attitude of 50-ish year old chess playing males towards women … Read the rest
Category: Capablanca
From Capa’s ”My Chess Career”
Capablanca’s Final Advice
Capablanca’s ”My Chess Career” was written in English and published shortly before the Cuban won the world title against Lasker in (1921). I … Read the rest
Searching for Gloria Guzman
The woman who checkmated Capablanca!
Today’s blog entry is just a ‘work in progress’ of a as yet un-finished research project that I started about … Read the rest
Capablanca on his talent and more
Predicted the End of Classical Chess!
To many fans , Jose Capablanca (1888–1942) was the greatest player of the game. In a remarkably candid interview
… Read the rest Capablanca on why he lost the world title
From an old interview…
Below are excerpts of an interview Hermann Helms , a chess journalist with the Brooklyn Daily Eagle conducted with Capablanca on
… Read the rest Capablanca on fast time controls
Faster Chess Means Poorer Chess!
Canadian master Dan Scoones drew my attention to a little known 1927 interview with the (then) World Champion Capablanca, where
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