Capablanca José Raúl
Noviembre 19, 2008
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Capablanca, José Raúl (1888-1942), Cuban chess grandmaster, born in Havana, and educated at Columbia University. He learned to play chess at the age of 4 and won the championship of Cuba at the age of 12. Later, in international tournaments in Europe, he defeated a number of the best players of the time and established himself as a grandmaster. In 1921 he won the world championship from the German player Emanuel Lasker, but in 1927 Capablanca lost his title to the Russian grandmaster Alexander Alekhine in a match that lasted three months. Relying less on theory than on intuitive perceptions, intense concentration, and precise positional analysis, Capablanca was what is called a “natural player.”
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