Fix My Chess
A Fix My Chess master
Capablanca
The Chess Machine
“See one move ahead — but make it always the best one. Simplicity is the hardest art.”
What it cures in your game
If your dominant leak is conversion, Capablanca is your antidote. The way he plays — the same you see in these games — is exactly what you need to internalize. In Fix My Chess you choose him as your master and train under his style, game by game, until that leak closes.
His life in chapters
- 1888–1908
The prodigy of Havana
Havana, 1888. They say I learned the moves at four, watching my father play. I never studied openings; I saw the board the way you see a face. At Columbia University in New York I played more chess than mathematics — the club at the Manhattan soon knew my name.
- 1909–1920
The machine announces itself
In 1909 I beat Marshall, the American champion, without preparation — 8 wins to 1. San Sebastián 1911: my first great European tournament, against everyone who mattered; I won it. For a decade I barely lost a serious game. They began to call me the chess machine.
- 1921–1927
World champion
Havana, 1921. Lasker had held the crown for 27 years; I took it without losing a single game. For six years I was, they said, unbeatable — until Buenos Aires 1927, when Alekhine outworked me across 34 games. I had made the game look too easy; he made me pay for it.
- 1928–1942
The long clarity
I chased the rematch that never came, and kept winning tournaments with the same quiet ease — Moscow, Nottingham. Even at the end, my endgames were lessons the young studied like scripture. Clarity does not age.
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