Born in Havana in 1888, former world chess champion José Capablanca is generally considered to be one of the top five players of all time. Such subsequent champions as Anatoly Karpov and Bobby Fischer ...

Recently, the column delivered some insights into chess openings and the middle game. Each phase has had players who excelled in a superior fashion. After the middle game comes the ending. One name ...

CHENNAI: Decades before five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand powered the country’s chess story, it was Mir Sultan Khan who gave India its first hero in the sport. While Anand’s feats on the ...

In Buenos Aires 32 small statues stood upon a polished piece of wood. Sixteen of them were white; behind these sat a middle-aged Cuban, Jose Raul Capablanca, chess champion of the world. Behind the ...

Last month, March, represented 110 years since the suave Cuban chess player Jose Raul Capablanca won the great San Sebastian Chess Tournament. The tournament was held in February-March 1911. In those ...

Sultan Khan, one of the greatest chess players of all time, is not well known despite facing notable opponents such as Jose Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, and Akiba Rubinstein. 0:00 Intro 1:29 Game 1 ...

After decades spent playing simultaneous chess, an 87-year-old Hungarian pensioner has clinched a world record by finally overtaking a total set by 1920s Cuban grandmaster Jose Raul Capablanca. Almost ...

Indian Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran earned 6.5 points from 10 rounds to became the first Indian to win the 52nd Capablanca Memorial Chess tournament at Varadero, Cuba. Sasikiran won the title with 6 ...