Chess Fundamentals

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Humor & Entertainment

Capablanca, José Raúl

Puzzles & Games

Harcourt

Chess endings have an immediacy lacking in chess endgame or chess problems: endings are not theoretical or composed, but actual board positions, the point in every game when the superfluous falls away, leaving only the essential. José Raúl Capablanca (1888–1942) had no need for isolated artistic theory or compositions — he composed and created chess art as he played. All of his genius — intuitive, tactical, strategic, logical — all of his art shines clearest in his endings, as he himself was proud to declare, advising others to study them carefully. "In order to improve your game," he said, "you must study the endgame before anything else; for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame."The best way to follow Capablanca's advice is through this — the only book devoted to his great endings, 60 complete games emphasizing the grand finale but annotated throughout.Irving Chernev communicates in his notes the mystery and wonder as well as the delight in discovering again and again the original, fertile mind of chess's greatest born player. "Virtuoso," "exquisite," "profound," "inspired," "elegant," and "fiendish ingenuity" describe match and tournament games and endings against Alekhine, Steiner, Marshall, Nimzowitsch, Lasker, Réti, and others, the best in the contemporary chess world. Capablanca's eleventh game in the 1901 Cuban championship (which he won, aged 12) "surpasses any accomplishment by such other prodigies as Morphy, Reshevsky, and Fischer." From age 12 through the last game in the book (nearly four decades later against Reshevsky at Nottingham, 1936), Capablanca fashions endgames in tense tournament atmosphere that seem like delicate, precise instruments dreamt at leisure.Here then is the essence of Capablanca, analyzed for the instruction of players and the pleasure of chess connoisseurs. Included are indexes of openings, themes in the endings, and opponents, as well as a bibliography and record of tournament and match play. Capablanca: for players, the epitome of the endgame; for readers, a classic chess study.

Capablanca's Best chess endings (Oxford chess books)

Oxford University Press

History

Franklin Classics

The seminal work of the Cuban genius who repeated the exploits of Morphy, suddenly bursting onto the European scene and annihilating the great masters who had hitherto dominated the international arena. This book captures the magic of Capablanca's early victory at San Sebastian 1911 and his second place - bowing only to Lasker - at St Petersburg 1914. All in all, 35 games are annotated by Capablanca in person with remarkable objectivity - bestowing praise and hurling criticism as and when required.

My Chess Career

Biographies & Memoirs

Dover Pubns

World's Championship Matches, 1921 and 1927

World's Championship Matches, 1921 and 1927

"Mi carrera ajedrecística" se considera una obra seminal en la historia de la literatura del juego ciencia. José Raúl Capablanca la escribió para promover su candidatura a la disputa de un encuentro por el Campeonato Mundial. Este encuentro se jugó finalmente un año después de la publicación del presente libro y terminó con un inobjetable triunfo del cubano sobre el entonces poseedor del título del orbe, el alemán Emanuel Lasker.

Mi carrera ajedrecistica (Anotado e ilustrado) (Spanish Edition)

Two Bishpos Editorial

The seminal work of the Cuban genius who repeated the exploits of Morphy, suddenly bursting onto the European scene and annihilating the great masters  who had hitherto dominated the international arena. This book captures the magic of Capablanca's early victory at San Sebastian 1911 and his second place - bowing only to Lasker - at St Petersburg 1914. All in all, 35 games are annotated by Capablanca in person with remarkable objectivity - bestowing praise and hurling criticism as and when required.

Jose Raul Capablanca: My Chess Career

Everyman Chess

José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (La Habana, 19 de noviembre de 1888 - Nueva York, 8 de marzo de 1942) fue un ajedrecista cubano campeón mundial de ajedrez de 1921 a 1927. Por su genio precoz, fue apodado "el Mozart del ajedrez"; por el aura de invencibilidad en su época dorada se le llamó "la máquina del ajedrez". Nueva traducción al español: Fundamentos de ajedrez.

Fundamentos de Ajedrez: El libro numero 1 del Mozart del Ajedrez (Spanish Edition)

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Chess Fundamentals

Capablanca's Best chess endings (Oxford chess books)

Chess Fundamentals

My Chess Career

World's Championship Matches, 1921 and 1927

Mi carrera ajedrecistica (Anotado e ilustrado) (Spanish Edition)

Jose Raul Capablanca: My Chess Career

Fundamentos de Ajedrez: El libro numero 1 del Mozart del Ajedrez (Spanish Edition)

Chess Fundamentals

Chess Fundamentals