by National Life Master Loal Davis There are many chess players who are/were born in November but there were two that bubble to the top because of their continued results among the world elite. One was the Russian born (November 12th, 1850) Mikhail Tchigorin. You will often see… Continue reading
Jose Raoul Capablanca The glamour boy of world chess, Capablanca, had been champion of Cuba at the age of 12, and from that time to his death in 1942, he had the totally undeserved reputation (as Petrosian does today) of being the greatest living endgame player. I recall… Continue reading
Capablanca-Jankowski /St. Petersburg 1914 221-222 pg. Chess Fundamentals [1921] {Primer of Chess} Move 14. RxB Capablanca-Jankowski Event “St Petersburg”[Site “St Petersburg RUS”][Date “1914.05.03”][EventDate “1914.04.21”][Round “9”][Result “1-0”][White “Jose Raul Capablanca”][Black “David Janowski”][ECO “C68”][PlyCount “61”] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.Nc3 Bc5 6.d3 Bg47.Be3 Bxe3 8.fxe3 Qe7 9.O-O… Continue reading
by National Life Master Loal Davis The Queen’s Indian Defense has often been thought of as a “poor cousin” of the Nimzo-Indian Defense. Black doesn’t always get to pin that Knight on c3 and if Black isn’t going to fall back into a regular Queen’s Gambit, then the Queen’s Indian… Continue reading
Botvinik (on the right) versus Capablanca A.V.R.O. 1938 Botvinik (White) To Play: Click on the Diagram to step through the game. “In the latter part of [his second game against Botvinnik] Capa suddenly got up and quickly went out. I noticed that when he returned his face… Continue reading
Chess Fever-1925-V. Pudovkin- CHESS FEVER “Chess Fever” (Russian: Шахматная горячка, Shakhmatnaya goryachka) is a 1925 Soviet silent comedy film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky. Chess Fever is a comedy about the Moscow 1925 chess tournament, made by Pudovkin during the pause in the filming of Mechanics of the… Continue reading
PGN Chess Game: Capablanca, Jose Raul vs. Corzo y Prinzipe, Juan, Havana, 1901.??.??, Round 5 Play in our Free Editor Continue reading
PGN Chess Game: Capablanca, Jose Raul vs. Munoz Ximenez, R., Montevideo, 1911.??.??, Round ? Play in our Free Editor Continue reading
PGN Chess Game: Capablanca, Jose Raul vs. Jaffe, Charles, New York, 1910.??.??, Round ? Play in our Free Editor Continue reading
Bobby Fischer Bobby Fischer’s Top Ten Players of All Time. His insights into these players is remarkable and he may well hit the nail on the head in the evaluation of their strengths and weaknesses. Paul Morphy Howard Staunton Wilhelm Steinitz Siegbert Tarrasch Mikhail Tchigorin Alexander Alekhine Jose Capablanca… Continue reading
