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José Raúl Capablanca

José Raúl Capablanca

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Search complete. 18 mentions across 7 episodes found for "José Raúl Capablanca".

Oct 20, 2026

Ben JohnsonHOST
59:18
Yeah.
John HartmannGUEST
59:18
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.
John HartmannGUEST
59:27
You sit down, and you write, okay, he missed something here, or I don't think this note is complete.
John HartmannGUEST
59:33
I, I think that's kind of a good way for, like, a normal human being to try to approach this.

6 MINS LATER

John HartmannGUEST
65:26
Uh, it was within the last year, obviously.
John HartmannGUEST
65:28
And yet, but he basically said, look, you know, Sidorov has...
John HartmannGUEST
65:31
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.
Ben JohnsonHOST
65:49
Yeah, yeah.
Mark GagnonHOST
43:19
But that is just what's available on the internet.
Mark GagnonHOST
43:21
Korchnoi said, "I would like to play Capablanca-"
Levy RozmanGUEST
43:24
Okay
Mark GagnonHOST
43:24
...
Can CavadayHOST
19:20
And you can even show us maybe that distinction.
Can CavadayHOST
19:23
Was it this Capablanca position you were talking about? This Janowski-Capablanca position, yeah?
Alex AstanehGUEST
19:27
Yeah.
Alex AstanehGUEST
19:28
Let's show it
Can CavadayHOST
19:28
to our audience because I think that was so instructive.
Alex AstanehGUEST
19:31
Yeah, so this position was quite a famous game.
Alex AstanehGUEST
19:35
It was played between David Janowski and José Raúl Capablanca.
Alex AstanehGUEST
19:40
And Capablanca had the black pieces and he went ahead and he won this game.
Luciana MoralesGUEST
14:55
And the other part was also finding out that their contemporaries were fascinating figures themselves.
Luciana MoralesGUEST
15:02
I was learning about a Cuban player who was... kind of a student of Capablanca, very talented, very prodigious herself, Maria Teresa Ibarra Mora.
Luciana MoralesGUEST
15:16
And like her, there was also this other figure, George Alan Thomas, who was a regular...
Jan MarkosHOST
15:26
I know.
Jan MarkosHOST
16:08
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.
Jan MarkosHOST
16:27
She was a very strong player, actually.
Jan MarkosHOST
16:30
Played against Capablanca, Alekhine.
Jan MarkosHOST
16:32
She learned the lessons from them, of course, and she learned from their styles as well.
Lars SchandorffGUEST
16:53
You really like this style.
Lars SchandorffGUEST
16:57
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.
Lars SchandorffGUEST
17:24
I mean, then you should play more closed positions and so on, keeping all the pieces, trying to outmaneuver your opponent.
Lars SchandorffGUEST
17:33
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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Lars SchandorffGUEST
43:42
They were regarded as, you know, some really, really special people because chess had this intellectual aura.
Lars SchandorffGUEST
43:54
Chess was a game for artists and intellectuals and so on, meeting and using the board to communicate and so on.
Lars SchandorffGUEST
44:05
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.
Lars SchandorffGUEST
44:24
I mean, so many fantastic stories about it.
MishraHOST
16:16
reverse engineering.
MishraHOST
16:17
Capablanca,
Robert RamirezGUEST
16:17
yes.
Robert RamirezGUEST
16:18
Exactly, right? But it's easier said than done.
JohnHOST
70:44
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.
JohnHOST
70:58
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.
JohnHOST
71:14
What else? There are more, there are more interesting ones.
JohnHOST
71:19
I mean recently there's also this book called Think Like a Super Grandmaster.

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