
José Raúl Capablanca
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Oct 20, 2026
Ep 504- John Hartmann on the U.S. Championships, Chess Books, and the Future of Chess Technology
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59:18Ben JohnsonHOST
Yeah.
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59:18John HartmannGUEST
So, you know, if you get The Immortal Games of Capablanca by Reinfeld, which is out in Algebraic, um, you go through those games, and you try to apply that philosophy to it.
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59:27John HartmannGUEST
You sit down, and you write, okay, he missed something here, or I don't think this note is complete.
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59:33John HartmannGUEST
I, I think that's kind of a good way for, like, a normal human being to try to approach this.
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65:26John HartmannGUEST
Uh, it was within the last year, obviously.
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65:28John HartmannGUEST
And yet, but he basically said, look, you know, Sidorov has...
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65:31John HartmannGUEST
He says he had very classical taste, um, and that came from his teachers, because since he was little, he had teachers who were sort of taking, you know, the things we learned from Capablanca and Alekhine and Botvinnik and sort of boiling it down and presenting it to him and, and now he knows this stuff without, without knowing that he knows it, if that makes sense.
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65:49Ben JohnsonHOST
Yeah, yeah.
GothamChess on Aliens, Serial Killers & Playing a Ghost
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43:19Mark GagnonHOST
But that is just what's available on the internet.
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43:21Mark GagnonHOST
Korchnoi said, "I would like to play Capablanca-"
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43:24Levy RozmanGUEST
Okay
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43:24Mark GagnonHOST
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IM Alex Astaneh - The Ultimate Guide to Positional Chess Mastery
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19:20Can CavadayHOST
And you can even show us maybe that distinction.
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19:23Can CavadayHOST
Was it this Capablanca position you were talking about? This Janowski-Capablanca position, yeah?
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19:27Alex AstanehGUEST
Yeah.
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19:28Alex AstanehGUEST
Let's show it
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19:28Can CavadayHOST
to our audience because I think that was so instructive.
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19:31Alex AstanehGUEST
Yeah, so this position was quite a famous game.
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19:35Alex AstanehGUEST
It was played between David Janowski and José Raúl Capablanca.
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19:40Alex AstanehGUEST
And Capablanca had the black pieces and he went ahead and he won this game.
WIM Luciana Morales - The Untold Stories of Women’s World Champions
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14:55Luciana MoralesGUEST
And the other part was also finding out that their contemporaries were fascinating figures themselves.
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15:02Luciana MoralesGUEST
I was learning about a Cuban player who was... kind of a student of Capablanca, very talented, very prodigious herself, Maria Teresa Ibarra Mora.
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15:16Luciana MoralesGUEST
And like her, there was also this other figure, George Alan Thomas, who was a regular...
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15:26Jan MarkosHOST
I know.
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16:08Jan MarkosHOST
yeah no no man joined i actually have one game maybe i can show you later manchick edwin thomas that amazing game that i shared on x as well that you reacted so i mean just an incredible incredibly beautiful game So she could also play aggressively, you know, on top of all the positional squeeze that you talk about.
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16:27Jan MarkosHOST
She was a very strong player, actually.
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16:30Jan MarkosHOST
Played against Capablanca, Alekhine.
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16:32Jan MarkosHOST
She learned the lessons from them, of course, and she learned from their styles as well.
GM Lars Schandorff - Inside the Mind of Chessable Author of the Year
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16:53Lars SchandorffGUEST
You really like this style.
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16:57Lars SchandorffGUEST
tactics and attack and counter attack then you should strive for openings that leads to that I mean then an opening like the Sicilian is perfect for you with both colors I mean you should try to get open play and so on and But I mean, if you think that Capablanca and Carpo, they're just the greatest players ever because they never made a mistake.
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17:24Lars SchandorffGUEST
I mean, then you should play more closed positions and so on, keeping all the pieces, trying to outmaneuver your opponent.
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17:33Lars SchandorffGUEST
And how do you get these kind of positions? Well, you get them by, you know, a clever attitude to the opening phase.
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43:42Lars SchandorffGUEST
They were regarded as, you know, some really, really special people because chess had this intellectual aura.
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43:54Lars SchandorffGUEST
Chess was a game for artists and intellectuals and so on, meeting and using the board to communicate and so on.
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44:05Lars SchandorffGUEST
At the same time, it was also a sport, of course, with... big personalities like Capablanca and El Jequen, for instance, you know, very different people confronting in a mind game, trying to destroy sort of mentally.
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44:24Lars SchandorffGUEST
I mean, so many fantastic stories about it.
NM Robert Ramirez - System Openings and Chess Tips for All Ages
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16:16MishraHOST
reverse engineering.
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16:17MishraHOST
Capablanca,
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16:17Robert RamirezGUEST
yes.
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16:18Robert RamirezGUEST
Exactly, right? But it's easier said than done.
Dr. Benjamin Portheault on Chess Psychology: Overcoming Mental Blocks, Pressure & Self-Doubt
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70:44JohnHOST
Also Chess for Zebras, very thought provoking as well, you know, philosophical and meta approach to this beautiful game and all the psychological struggles that we have affecting us for sure that had an impact on me when I was growing.
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70:58JohnHOST
On the chess side of things, of course, Zurich 1953 because of all the amazing games that had impact on me, Capablanca, Fundamentals, it was my very first book given to me by my grandmother that changed the trajectory of my life probably in hindsight.
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71:14JohnHOST
What else? There are more, there are more interesting ones.
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71:19JohnHOST
I mean recently there's also this book called Think Like a Super Grandmaster.