1888 - 1942
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, José Raúl Capablanca ranks 3 out of 374. Before 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.
1943 - 2008
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 1
1836 - 1900
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 2
1888 - 1942
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 3
1892 - 1946
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 4
1936 - 1992
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 5
1937 - Present
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 6
1868 - 1941
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 7
1911 - 1995
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 8
1941 - Present
HPI: 67.89
Rank: 9
1901 - 1981
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 10
1929 - 1984
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 11
1963 - Present
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1888, José Raúl Capablanca ranks 6. Before 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 8. Before 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.
1888 - 1954
HPI: 76.75
Rank: 1
1888 - 1935
HPI: 73.69
Rank: 2
1888 - 1935
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 3
1888 - 1955
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 4
1888 - 1946
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 5
1888 - 1942
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 6
1888 - 1975
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 7
1888 - 1978
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 8
1888 - 1969
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 9
1888 - 1985
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 10
1888 - 1938
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 11
1888 - 1934
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 12
1904 - 1942
HPI: 78.31
Rank: 2
1878 - 1942
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 3
1884 - 1942
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 4
1891 - 1942
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 5
1874 - 1942
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 6
1884 - 1942
HPI: 70.84
Rank: 7
1888 - 1942
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 8
1880 - 1942
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 9
1870 - 1942
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 10
1862 - 1942
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 11
1861 - 1942
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 12
1870 - 1942
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 13
1884 - 1942
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 14
Among people born in Cuba, José Raúl Capablanca ranks 4 out of 248. Before 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).
1926 - 2016
HPI: 83.61
Rank: 1
1931 - Present
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 2
1901 - 1973
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 3
1888 - 1942
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 4
1923 - 1985
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 5
1932 - 1959
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 6
1853 - 1895
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 7
1842 - 1911
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 8
1956 - Present
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 9
1928 - 2001
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 10
1907 - 2003
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 11
1957 - Present
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 12
Among chess players born in Cuba, José Raúl Capablanca ranks 1. After him are Leinier Domínguez (1983), Irisberto Herrera (1968), and Lázaro Bruzón (1982).
1888 - 1942
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 1
1983 - Present
HPI: 31.24
Rank: 2
1968 - Present
HPI: 29.45
Rank: 3
1982 - Present
HPI: 28.31
Rank: 4