Biography of kapablanki

The genius of Mittelshpilya and End, a master of positional game. Kapablanka was born on November 19 in Havana on the island of Cuba, a colony of the Spanish Empire in the family of an officer. As Jose Raul himself wrote, he learned to play chess at the age of 4, watching his father’s game. The young future champion continued to play, improve his skills. When he turned 8 years old, he sometimes began to visit the chess club.

There he surprised his rivals with his boundless talent. The first victories are the first serious success to be considered the Kapablanki match with the then champion of Cuba Huan Corso. At that time, Jose Raul was the only match played up to four victories. The first 2 parties were won by Corso, the next 6 were tied, and then 4 won the future world champion. In the year, Kapablanka moves to New York to learn English for further admission to Columbia University.

He succeeded in the year. During his studies, Jose Raul continued to play chess. A vivid achievement of the then years is a victory in the blitz-tournament of the year. With the participation of the world's existing world, E. But Kapablanka was not configured to finish the study. After 2 years, he leaves the university in order to completely devote himself and his life to chess.

Later, a match was organized between him and the current champion of the United States, one of the leaders of world chess - Frank Marshall. The latter was considered a favorite. However, to universal surprise, the match ended with a sensational score with 14 draws in favor of the Cuban. The next step was to win a chance to fight for the chess crown. This was facilitated by the victory in the international tournament in San Sebastian.

There, Kapablanka took first place, leaving behind Rubinstein, Vidmar and many other strongest chess players. After that, he called Lasker to the match. The first attempt failed. The parties exchanged ultimatums, loud statements, but at first they could not arrange a meeting. The world champion serious shifts in this came in the year when an agreement was signed on the championship match.

Lasker at first said that he was passing the championship without a game. However, the press and the public were not satisfied with such a decision. As a result, the match took place in the year. The first 4 parties ended in a draw. The fifth was won by Kapablanka. Further, again 4 games without a winner. But then, out of 5 batches, Kubinets won 3, with two draws. After that, the Lasker passed the match without further playing out when the Kapablanka champion was in the rank of the Kapablanka champion gave many sessions of the simultaneous game, participated in tournaments and even starred in the episode of the film Vsevolod Pudovkin “Chess Grygochka”.

In the X years, in addition to kapablanki, there were a number of strongest stars of world chess. And everyone considered himself worthy of a championship competition. In the year, Kapablanka announced its conditions for the match: to play the match up to 6 victories of the prize fund at least 10 thousand dollars, the Fund is provided by the applicant for many then chess players sought to play the match.

But often their aspirations were suppressed with the inability to provide a prize fund. The loss of the title of the year, with financial support, primarily Argentina, Kapablanca, Alexander Alekhin challenged. The match was scheduled for the fall of the year. Before this event, Alekhin never won the Cuban. However, in the first batch of the match, playing black, the applicant came forward.

In total, 34 parties were played. The match ended with the score in favor of Alekhin at 25 draws. After the loss of the Capablanca title, he continued to participate in international tournaments, took prizes. He tried to prove his right to play a match-rare with Alekhin. But in the end, he did not succeed. The third world champion in the age of 53 in New York from hemorrhage in the brain died.

Jose Raul Kapablanka is a chess genius, the third world champion, writer. He remained undefeated from the years. Lost in the professional arena only 34 parties in life.