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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Being able to convert a chess game into a winning endgame is the mark of a champion. Cuba’s world chess champion Jose Raul Capablanca gained fame for doing so. In many instances he converted middle ...