America's longest-running yearly international, the chessfest is being held in honor of the Cuban world champion, Jose Raul
Capablanca.
Sultan Khan had the rare distinction of beating the legendary Jose Raoul
Capablanca of Cuba, who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927.
Almost 60 years since her first simultaneous games, on six boards side-by-side at a Chess Olympiad in 1957, Brigitta Sinka overtook the magic 13,545 number attributed to
Capablanca (1888-1942), one of the world's best-ever players.
And, not since Cuban Jose
Capablanca beat German Emmanuel Lasker in 1921, has there been a World Championship match that did not feature a Russian or Soviet bloc player or even a former Eastern bloc player, as Veselin Topalov was.
What was the nationality of former world chess champion Jose Raul
Capablanca? 5.
Complication, incidentally, is a watchmaker's term, and nobody would deny that the first wristwatches had been less complex than the Breguets favored by Byron and Pushkin, just as in chess, ancient gambits and openings are child's play next to the Rubik's Cubes of Alekhine and
Capablanca. Complicating the position on the board, as every player knows, is what chess is all about.
CAPABLANCA," a Cuban who dominated the world of chess from 1921 to 1927 (Gutmayer n.
When the young Botvinnik bested then world champion Jose-Raul
Capablanca (Cuba) on a board in a simultaneous exhibition, however, he became a sensation.