Chess more than a game or a science is a discipline. To many of its followers it is an adventure when they get into the world of the bicolor panel where ideas, concentration, hard intellectual job, inspiration, desire to compete and the need of planning converge next to a careful discipline to the culminate in an intense play where analysis and instinct of survival play an indispensable role.


There are some classics in Chess, and among them we find Alekhine, Lasker, Tarrasch, Rubinsteins, Nimzowitch, and Capablanca, among many others.
But ¿ who was Capablanca? In 1888 Jose Raul Capablanca was born in The Castle of the Prince in Havana, one that would be considered as one of the geniuses of the game-science in his time. José Raúl Capablanca could not be considered a rookie at age 12. Even though he never studied chess, he learned by watching his father play …


At age 12 he defeated Cuban champion Juan Corzo, at this point Capablanca denoted his brilliant intuition, his quality of genius and his brilliant ability for this sport. He is known as the most talented Cuban chess player. His great mechanical abilities transformed a complex position in a simple fast technical problem without databases need neither computers, and without having idea of the modern techniques of the 21st century. He participated in the most important encounters from the epoch worldwide causing great expectation and amazement by his dexterity and control of the panel. He contributed largely to promote Cuba in the world of the 20th century.


In 1921, Capablanca won the world title from Emanuel Lasker who was champion of the world, a title he kept from 1921 to 1927.


José Raúl Capablanca, since early age was characterized for the control of the strategy and tactical maneuvers with great security and confidence. His great intuition and simplification of end of play are maintained like models in quick chess to today. His record is incredible, 15 first places and 9 second places. He was known as 'the chess machine'. In 1936 after he played against the Russian one Mikhail Botvinnik , he was asked why being a virtuous as he was he did not compose studies upon the same, to what answered: "When I was young I composed one so difficult that could nobody resolve. Since then, I have not been interested in composing, since I consider useless to compose if nobody will be able solves it". That game, according to him was comprised of 24 movements that revealed the difficulty to resolve it. Capablanca considered that 'the end of a game must be grasped since opening' and for that he taught lessons by radio in New York. He wrote some books 'Elementary Lessons of Chess' and 'Chess Basics'. Capablanca studied engineering at the University of Columbia and its favorite hobby he was to play chess in the Manhattan Chess Club where he defeated US Chess champion. Frank Marshall in 1909 when he was only 20 years old. One of the most important moments in the life of Capablanca went in Cleveland where played simultaneously with 103 players. He won 102 games and lost one. This, among many others, was one of its more notable achievements.