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José Raúl Capablanca

1888 - 1942

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José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. A chess prodigy, he is widely renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play. Capablanca was born in 1888 in the Castillo del Príncipe, Havana. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José Raúl Capablanca has received more than 1,565,175 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). José Raúl Capablanca is the 3rd most popular chess player (up from 6th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Cuba (up from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Cuban Chess Player.

José Raúl Capablanca is most famous for being the first World Chess Champion.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, José Raúl Capablanca ranks 3 out of 374Before him are Bobby Fischer and Wilhelm Steinitz. After him are Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Tal, Boris Spassky, Emanuel Lasker, Mikhail Botvinnik, Nona Gaprindashvili, Max Euwe, Tigran Petrosian, and Garry Kasparov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, José Raúl Capablanca ranks 6Before him are Heinz Guderian, Fernando Pessoa, T. E. Lawrence, Dale Carnegie, and John Logie Baird. After him are Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Giorgio de Chirico, Otto Stern, Carl Schmitt, Nikolai Bukharin, and Nestor Makhno. Among people deceased in 1942, José Raúl Capablanca ranks 8Before him are Reinhard Heydrich, Janusz Korczak, Bronisław Malinowski, Edith Stein, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Anton Drexler. After him are Robert Musil, Jean Baptiste Perrin, William Henry Bragg, Robert Bosch, William G. Morgan, and Walther von Reichenau.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, José Raúl Capablanca ranks 4 out of 248Before him are Fidel Castro (1926), Raúl Castro (1931), and Fulgencio Batista (1901). After him are Italo Calvino (1923), Camilo Cienfuegos (1932), José Martí (1853), Paul Lafargue (1842), Andy García (1956), Alberto Korda (1928), Compay Segundo (1907), and Gloria Estefan (1957).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Cuba

Among chess players born in Cuba, José Raúl Capablanca ranks 1After him are Leinier Domínguez (1983), Irisberto Herrera (1968), and Lázaro Bruzón (1982).