{"id":234685,"date":"2021-02-15T08:33:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T13:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=234685"},"modified":"2021-02-15T08:33:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T13:33:55","slug":"capablanca-chess-yes-but-the-ladies-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/sports\/capablanca-chess-yes-but-the-ladies-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Capablanca: chess, yes, but the ladies too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This more than fateful 2021 brings, instead, some reasons for rejoicing for lovers of the so-called science game: chess. In effect, we are commemorating 100 years of two events of enormous importance: the coronation of Jos\u00e9 Ra\u00fal Capablanca y Graupera (1888-1942) as the third World Chess Champion, preceded by Wilhem Steinitz (Austria) and Edmanuel Lasker (Germany), and the publication by Capablanca of the book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chess Fundamentals<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, still considered today one of the capital texts of the theory and practice of this sport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1921 \u201cel Capa\u201d reached what is an unbeatable record to this day: being the only Iberian-American chess player to storm the summit, a condition that he achieved undefeated in Havana, against Lasker. The Cuban held the scepter until 1927, when he was defeated in Argentina by Alexader Alekhine.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"G7zPQVnJdZ\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/canaldigital\/video\/viernes-de-libros\/viernes-de-libros-antes-de-capablanca-el-ajedrez-era-otro\/\">Viernes de Libros: \u201cAntes de Capablanca el ajedrez era otro\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"\u00abViernes de Libros: \u201cAntes de Capablanca el ajedrez era otro\u201d\u00bb \u2014 OnCubaNews\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/canaldigital\/video\/viernes-de-libros\/viernes-de-libros-antes-de-capablanca-el-ajedrez-era-otro\/embed\/#?secret=4J0lVLId2f#?secret=G7zPQVnJdZ\" data-secret=\"G7zPQVnJdZ\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Buenos Aires championship was arduous, the longest in history until 1985 (Karpov-Kasparov), where the best preparation of the Russian nationalized French player was evidenced, who first reached the six agreed victories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chess Fundamentals<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it is a mandatory bibliography. Its essential points have not even been contested by the development that game theory has undergone in recent decades. So much so that the Russian Mikhail Bovinnik, four times world champion (1948, 1951, 1954 and 1961) called it \u201cthe best chess book of all time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also in 1921 our champion got married for the first time. He met Gloria Simoni, his first wife, that same year at the Casino de la Playa, a recreational facility in Havana where the chess match for the world championship was held. It seems that it was love at first sight for the couple, because \u201cthe most coveted bachelor in the country,\u201d according to a chronicler of the time, and the niece of Amalia Simoni, wife of Ignacio Agramonte, got married on December 29. The wedding took place at the headquarters of the Apostolic Nunciature of Cuba. From that union, which lasted 17 years, Jos\u00e9 Ra\u00fal Capablanca Simoni and Gloria Capablanca Simoni were born.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>A faded photo and the mystery<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lives of public figures are exposed to the curiosity, sometimes morbid, of others. And Capablanca\u2019s was no exception. That of the chess genius was accompanied by the poise of the man of \u201cgood looks,\u201d and by the legend of being a true Don Juan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His love \u201ccareer\u201d may, in quantitative terms, may have been less intense than that of any neighbor\u2019s son today, but in the imagery of his time the figure of our champion was set in bronze letters in the book of great lovers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s take a quick tour of his sentimental biography, made up of testimonies from those who were lucky enough to have known him and by the almost always sloppy prose of the gossip columnists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is 1912. Capablanca is 24 years old and embarks on his first national tour. He had left Cuba in 1904, returned briefly in the summer of 1909, and left again for the United States and Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On this occasion he was seen accompanied by an unidentified brunette lady, apparently his first \u201cclose\u201d contact with a Cuban. It is known that they stayed together in a hotel in San Miguel de los Ba\u00f1os. Only a faded photo and the mystery of the occasion remained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That same year, when Capablanca was leaving New York for Havana to begin his tour of the interior of Cuba, the Brooklyn newspaper <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily Eagle<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> inserted in its pages a fake news that stated that the Cuban had married a lady whose Identity was not specified, in the town of Summit, NJ. This woman came to see him off at the dock from where the steamer <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avangarez<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would set sail. We only know about her from the notable Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev\u2014friend of \u201cel Capa\u201d and very interested in chess\u2014that she was a beautiful woman, with good manners, with very fine skin, and that the champion had ceased being interested in her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re off to Saint Petersburg, 1914. A strong international chess tournament is played there. Cuban Capablanca finished second, half a point behind Emanuel Lasker, then world champion. In his memoirs, Prokofiev refers to a conversation he had with Sosnitsky, vice president of the host club, in which he states that the performance of the Cuban in the tournament was conditioned by the intense affair he had with Madam Strakhovich, with whom he had spent sleepless nights. It is also said that the excellent dancer Mathilde Marie Feliksova Kashessinkaya, who had youthful love affairs with he who would later become Tsar Nicholas II, also received the attention of the son of Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Capablanca Fern\u00e1ndez and Matilde Mar\u00eda Graupera Mar\u00edn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chess Fever<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, from 1925, is a silent short comedy directed by Russian Vsevolod Pudovkin, which has, as an added interest, the participation of Capablanca as an actor. The film uses documentary images of the tournament that was being played at that time in the Metropol Hotel in Moscow. We won\u2019t go into the plot; suffice it to say that the character played by the Cuban expresses that, given the choice, women come before the game of thirty-two chess pieces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another biographer of the so-called \u201cMozart of chess\u201d was the Russian Vassili Panov, who attests that during the Moscow tournament Capablanca was besieged by a multitude of admirers, including women. They gave him flowers, chocolates, and the push from the fans was so great that the city\u2019s mounted police had to intervene more than once to provide protection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We now arrive in Buenos Aires. It is the year 1927 and Capablanca gives the scepter to Alexader Alekhine. Two women are associated with this painful moment: actresses Gloria Guzm\u00e1n, from Spain, and the Argentine Consuelo Vel\u00e1zquez.<\/span><b>1<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Guzm\u00e1n revealed to the newspaper <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cr\u00edtica<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Capablanca \u201chad replaced Rudolph<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Valentino in her heart.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apparently the most strident affair was with Vel\u00e1zquez, who used to pick up the star in her bright red Rambler convertible.<\/span><b>2<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The match for the crown was held in September 1927. That year \u201cel Capa\u201d had performed splendidly, and the stakes were unanimously in his favor. The king was confident. He would act, true to his custom, improvising solutions on the board. He surely thought that his uninhibited and spontaneous game would put an end to his opponent\u2019s pretensions. There were those who predicted that Alekine would not win a single game, while others declared that the Russian didn\u2019t have the slightest chance against the Habanero. The painful result is known, and there have been many who attribute the Cuban master\u2019s poor performance to his excessive weakness for women\u2019s beauty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Olga Chagodaef<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reception of the Consulate of the Republic of Cuba in New York, year 1934. Amid the cigarette smoke, the clink of ice in the glasses and the fragments of simultaneous conversations, Capablanca notices the presence of a woman of great bearing: the noble Russian Olga Chagodaef. It is said that this lady treasured some of the characteristics that most attracted the master\u2019s attention: beauty, refinement, culture and grace to move in the halls of high society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From a corner of the room, taciturn and away from the crowds of admirers who demand his presence, Capablanca observes the Russian with intensity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As she herself recounted in her memoirs, a very handsome man\u2014of whom she had no references\u2014 approached her on that occasion and without preamble said: \u201cone day we will be married.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And yes, they were married in 1938, several weeks after the champion achieved the dissolution of his marriage with Gloria Simoni.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is unanimously believed that Olga Chagodaef was a beneficial influence on the further development of Capablanca\u2019s career. Despite not being able to regain his crown in chess, his performance against the strongest players of his time was memorable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nottingham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nottingham<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tournament, in 1936, Capablanca and Alekhine returned, board in between, to face each other, which had not happened since the latter dethroned him in Buenos Aires. Coming from below, with a rather compromised position, \u201cel Capa\u201d took him to marshy terrain, and there he served himself, with a soup spoon, \u201cthe honey of revenge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything seems to indicate that Chagodaef kept our genius on a tight rein. She was the exclusive lady for the last four years of his life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Author\u2019s note:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the elaboration of this chronicle I had the invaluable collaboration of Miguel \u00c1ngel S\u00e1nchez, author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capablanca, leyenda y realidad<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grades:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>1<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Not to be confused with the Mexican songwriter and singer of the same name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>2<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> On this topic see the novel by \u00c1lvarez Gil, Antonio: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perdido en buenos Aires<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This more than fateful 2021 brings, instead, some reasons for rejoicing for lovers of the so-called science game: chess. In effect, we are commemorating 100 years of two events of enormous importance: the coronation of Jos\u00e9 Ra\u00fal Capablanca y Graupera (1888-1942) as the third World Chess Champion, preceded by Wilhem Steinitz (Austria) and Edmanuel Lasker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3770,"featured_media":234688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,34],"tags":[33494,18371],"ppma_author":[34037,24282],"class_list":["post-234685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-sports","tag-capablanca","tag-cuban-chess"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Capablanca: chess, yes, but the ladies too | OnCubaNews English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The lives of public figures are exposed to the curiosity of others. 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