Can anyone please help me to learn more from my adopted chess hero Jose Capablanca. I am particularly interested in well annotated games of the master, either in print or on the net.

Thanks in advance

you can search his games in the game explorer easily as you have a premium membership. 

excuse me, after trying to do it myself i should say "you should be able to" as most premium sites with game explorers have this function, but i cant figure out how to do it here myself

There is an excellent book by Chernev called Capablanca's Best Chess Endings. It's an inexpensive Dover paperback, too.

Along the bar of options atop most screens, hover your pointer over "learn" and scroll down to "game explorer" and select that.  On the resulting screen, look near the upper right-hand corner for a link called "chess games home" and click that.  From there, you should be able to type in player names as well as plenty of other criteria.

Thanks guys. The game explorer is not annotated and at my level I need a bit of explanation as to why the move was made, preferably in plain english rather than some long list of possible variations. I'll look up the Chernev book as this looks promising as apparently Capablanca was a believer in studing endgames above all else.

Cheers.

Reinfeld's "The Immortal Games of Capablanca" has a nice collection of annotated games too. Amazon isn't selling it itself (pity, it used to be dirt cheap there) but there's 2nd hand books available for $5.

It's in descriptive notation, which takes a bit of getting used to if you haven't seen it before. But I have a PGN of the games (not the annotations) somewhere, send me a message if you want it and I'll search for it when I get home.

Oh, and I think the "Capablanca never studied" thing is a myth; that's what he liked people to think. 

Sean G Godley has done an excellent couple of series on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/SeanGGodley#p/p

In the playlists, go to "Lessons from Capablanca" and "Capablanca at his best". Great Stuff.

Any serious player knows that's a load of bull.

@TheRiddler77: You're gonna want these 4:

1) Jose Raul Capablanca: My Chess Career (Algebraic Edition)
Jose Raul Capablanca (Author), Laird Lyndon (Editor)
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Everyman Chess (April 15, 1995)
ISBN-10: 0964298694
ISBN-13: 978-0964298699

2) Capablanca's Best Games (New American Batsford Chess Library) (Algebraic Edition)
by Harry Golombek (Author)
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Intl Chess Enterprises; 1 edition (February 1, 1997)
ISBN-10: 1879479478
ISBN-13: 978-1879479470

3) The Immortal Games of Capablanca (Descriptive)
by Fred Reinfeld
Paperback: 239 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (1990)
ISBN: 0-486-26333-9

4) Chess Fundamentals (Algebraic Edition)
by Jose Raul Capablanca
Paperback: 121 pages
Publisher: Everyman Chess (2006)
ISBN: 1-85744-073-0

1) This is his autobiography. 50 annotated games by Capablanca himself!
2) Capa's best 100 games expertly annotated by Golembek. Includes a good biography of Capablanca too.
3) Considered very good AFAIK. In descriptive notation though.
4) One of the best chess primers ever written. Includes 14 games annotated by Capablanca himself!

Other places with annotated Capablanca games (sample):

Decisive Games in Chess History
Ludek Pachman (Author), A. S. Russell (Translator)
Paperback: 266 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (April 1, 1987)
ISBN-10: 0486253236
ISBN-13: 978-0486253237

The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy
Irving Chernev (Author)
Paperback: 279 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (November 6, 1992)
ISBN-10: 0486273024
ISBN-13: 978-0486273020

Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games: Improve Your Chess by Studying the Greatest Games of All time, from Adolf Anderssen's 'Immortal' Game to Kramnik Versus Kasparov 2000
Graham Burgess (Author), John Nunn (Author), John Emms (Author)
Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Running Press (September 20, 2004)
ISBN-10: 0786714115
ISBN-13: 978-0786714117

Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained (New Algebraic Edition)
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Batsford; Subsequent edition (June 30, 2003)
ISBN-10: 0713484640
ISBN-13: 978-0713484649

Carlsbad International Chess Tournament 1929
by Aron Nimzowitsch
Paperback: 146 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (2004)
ISBN-10: 0-486-43942-9

New York 1924
by Alexander Alekhine
Paperback: 350 pages
Publisher: Russell Enterprises (2008)
ISBN-13: 978-1-888690-48-4

Nottingham 1936
by Alexander Alekhine
Paperback: 195 pages
Publisher: Russell Enterprises (2009)
ISBN-13: 978-1-888690-63-7

Masters of the Chessboard (Descriptive)
by Richard Réti
Paperback: 435 pages
Publisher: Ishi Press (2008
ISBN: 0-923891-48-X

Unbeatable Chess Lessons
by Robert Snyder
Paperback: 228 pages
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (June 19, 2007)
ISBN-10: 0595453449
ISBN-13: 978-0595453443

500 Master Games of Chess (3 Books in 1 Volume) (Descriptive)
Dr. S. Tartakower (Author), J. du Mont (Author)
Paperback: 665 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (June 1, 1975)
ISBN-10: 0486232085
ISBN-13: 978-0486232089

(32 annotated Capablanca games by my count)

The Development of Chess Style
Max Euwe (Author), John Nunn (Author), Max Euwe (Author)
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: International Chess Enterprises; 2nd Rev edition (December 1, 1997)
ISBN-10: 1879479664
ISBN-13: 978-1879479661

Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Vol.1
Garry Kasparov (Author)
Hardcover: 464 pages
Publisher: Everyman Chess; 1st edition (August 1, 2003)
ISBN-10: 1857443306
ISBN-13: 978-1857443301
(39 Capablanca games (by my count) annotated by Kasparov + Rybka! :)

There's also this software (soon about to be converted to the much better Peshk@ interface):

http://chessok.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_6&products_id=47&zenid=n82n7iag1sgj551ova9637r531

640 commented games + lets you "Play as Capablanca".

Then there's the ChessBase monograph on Capablanca (incl. 300 annotated games):

http://www.chessbase.com/shop/product.asp?pid=261&user=&coin=

Further:

Use this program to play predict-a-Capablanca-move

http://innokuo.altervista.org/chesshero.html

The renowned chess historian Edward Winter has collected some good articles on/by Capablanca:

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/archives.html

A Capablanca homepage:

http://www.gtryfon.demon.co.uk/bcc/culture/worldchampions/capablanca/capablanca.htm

Capablanca on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capablanca

597 Capablanca games:

http://www.pgnmentor.com/files.html#players

Capablanca game collections:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/collections?search=capablanca

This lot should keep you busy for a while! :)

Again a big thanks to you all. Great work chessoholicalien, I'll work my way through some of that stuff, time permitting!

I know I'll never play like Capablanca, but to absorb just a few of his ideas would be great.

Anyone got anything for me. I like Bobby Fischer.

chessoholicalien:  Thanks for all that info and links!

I'm reading "Chess Fundamentals," revised by Nick deFirmian.  It is by far the most instructive and easy chess book to read.  Most of the ideas within this book are theoretical explanations using more words than annotations, but annotations are necessary to a certain degree.  If you are below 2200 elo, I would recommend this book, becuase it will make your chess absolutely solid.   

I have Capablanca's Hundred Best Games of Chess. "Chosen and Annotated by Golembek". It has a nice intro about Capablanca if anything and a few witty tangents here and there about his games.

Watch the 30 minute movie "Chess Fever" You'll see him in action.