Having lost the world championship to Alekhine in 1927, Jose Raul Capablanca seemed in 1929 to be bent on recouping lost prestige by winning as many high level tournaments as possible.While Alekhine largely avoided tourname

nt play that year Capablanca in five events( at Ramsgate, Carlsbad, Budapest, Barcelona, and Hastings) took 1st place four times and 2nd place once, scoring +39 -2 =23 against opposition that included many of the world's best. While there had been high hopes for a title rematch in 1929, by the end of the years prospects had grown dim and some wondered if Alekhine was negotiating in good faith.                                                 

man capablanca was a gangster.  i know it, you know, we all know it. 

I always considered him one of the greatest, if not the greatest of all times, when it came the endgame.I am glad that I could share some games of   past greatest,of all times.I am working on more games>

Wonderful use of the rook batteries.  I don't know if Capablanca was a gangster; all I know is that he's Cuban.  Thanks to Fischer there was much reform in FIDE, and world title matches come about without glitches (generally).

One of my friend says he study endgames than any other part of chess games. I think Capablanca was one of the genius in endgame strategy. How disappointing it is when you are ahead in middle game and lost the endgame because you don't treat it like the most important part of the game.

I think the term "gangster" was a euphemism for a killer on the chess board. That being said: man was a gangster.

SUPER CAPABLANCA!!!

no, he was no gangster on the notoriety level, neither was he one over the board.  He was probably the greatest genius at chess play.  The russians were playing their huge mind games on him in 1927, and long story short, they stold

the championship from the rest of the world, as they continued to play even into the Fischer era.  Bear in mind that in the early 1900's, Cuba was probably THE chess hub of the world.  NY, Paris, and London were close seconds.

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and if he wasn't, he knew a whole lot of them:-))

Capablanca and Akiba Rubinstein were the two greatest endgame players, IMO. They are two of my favorites because I also love the endgame! It's my favorite part of chess, and it's also the most important.