List of people who have beaten José Raúl Capablanca in chess
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The following twenty-nine people have beaten José Raúl Capablanca
in a regular tournament or match game of chess — not a game played at odds, or off-hand games. Capablanca is considered to be perhaps the strongest human chess player in history, being undefeated for over eight years of active, world-class competition, from February 10, 1916 to March 21, 1924 (Comparing top chess players throughout history).
Some of the people listed played Capablanca when he was quite young, and some were "Simul" games, where he took on multiple opponents at the same time. These players are listed with an (S) next to them. Players who defeated Capablanca when he was under 16 years of age have an (U16) by their names.
José Raúl Capablanca
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. One of the greatest players of all time, he was renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play...
in a regular tournament or match game of chess — not a game played at odds, or off-hand games. Capablanca is considered to be perhaps the strongest human chess player in history, being undefeated for over eight years of active, world-class competition, from February 10, 1916 to March 21, 1924 (Comparing top chess players throughout history).
Some of the people listed played Capablanca when he was quite young, and some were "Simul" games, where he took on multiple opponents at the same time. These players are listed with an (S) next to them. Players who defeated Capablanca when he was under 16 years of age have an (U16) by their names.
Tournament and match play
- Alexander AlekhineAlexander AlekhineAlexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...
seven wins - Buenos Aires 1927 Match Games #1,11,12,21,32,34 and AVRO 1938, and score (+7 –9 =33) - Roy Turnbull BlackRoy Turnbull BlackRoy Turnbull Black was an American chess player. Black was a judge by profession. Although his record against Capablanca was one win, one draw and three losses, he beat Capablanca with black pieces in New York in 1911:...
- New York 1911, and score (+1 –3 =1) - Mikhail BotvinnikMikhail BotvinnikMikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik, Ph.D. was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and three-time World Chess Champion. Working as an electrical engineer and computer scientist at the same time, he was one of the very few famous chess players who achieved distinction in another career while...
- AVRO 1938, and score (+1 –1 =5) - Oscar ChajesOscar ChajesOscar Chajes was an Austrian, then American chess player.-Biography:Chajes was Jewish and was born in Brody, Galicia, in what is now Ukraine. In 1909, he won in Excelsior, Minnesota . In 1910, he took 2nd in Chicago. In January/February 1911, he tied for 3rd-4th in New York...
- New York 1916, and score (+1 –8 =3) - Enrique Corzo - (U16), one win - Cuba Match Series 1901, one win - Cuba Championship 1902, and score (+2-2=0)
- Juan CorzoJuan CorzoJuan Corzo y Principe was a Spanish–Cuban chess master, champion of Cuba immediately preceding José Capablanca....
(U16), two wins - Cuba Match Series 1901, three wins - Havana 1902 Match Games #1,2,13, two wins - Cuba Championship 1902, and score (+7-6=6) - Erich EliskasesErich EliskasesErich Gottlieb Eliskases was a chess Grandmaster of the 1930s and 1940s, who represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition....
- Semmering 1937, and score (+1 –1 =2) - Max EuweMax EuweMachgielis Euwe was a Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, and author. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion . Euwe also served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978.- Early years :Euwe was born in Watergraafsmeer, near Amsterdam...
- AVRO 1938, and score (+1 –4 =13) - G. Fernandez - (U16), one win - Cuba Championship 1902, and score (+1-1=0)
- Antonio Fiol - (U16), one win - Cuba Championship 1902, and score (+1-1=0)
- Salo FlohrSalo FlohrSalomon Mikhailovich Flohr was a leading Czech and later Soviet chess grandmaster of the mid-20th century, who became a national hero in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. His name was used to sell many of the luxury products of the time, including Salo Flohr cigarettes, slippers and eau-de-cologne...
- Nottingham 1936, and score (+1 –3 =8) - Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky - Moscow 1925, and score (+1 –0 =0)
- Charles JaffeCharles JaffeCharles Jaffé was a Belarusian-American chess master, of virtually Grandmaster strength at his peak in the 1910s, when he was one of the world's top players. Jaffe was also a chess writer....
- New York 1913, and score (+1 –6 =4) - David Janowski - Havana 1913, and score (+1 –9 =1)
- Paul KeresPaul KeresPaul Keres , was an Estonian chess grandmaster, and a renowned chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s....
- AVRO 1938, and plus score (+1 –0 =5) - Emanuel LaskerEmanuel LaskerEmanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years...
, two wins - Saint Petersburg 1914 and Moscow 1935, and score (+2 –6 =16) - Andre LilienthalAndor LilienthalAndor Arnoldovich Lilienthal was a Hungarian and Soviet chess Grandmaster. In his long career, he played against ten male and female world champions, beating Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, and Vera Menchik...
- Hastings 1934/35, and score (+1 –1 =2) - Frank James Marshall, two wins - New York 1909 Match Game #7, Havana 1913, and score (+2 –19 =30)
- Samuel ReshevskySamuel ReshevskySamuel "Sammy" Herman Reshevsky was a famous chess prodigy and later a leading American chess Grandmaster...
- Margate 1935, and score (+1 –1 =4) - Richard RétiRichard RétiRéti composed one of the most famous chess studies, shown in this diagram. It was published in Ostrauer Morgenzeitung 4 December 1921. It seems impossible for the white king to catch the advanced black pawn, while the white pawn can be easily stopped by the black king...
- New York 1924, and score (+1 –5 =2) - Nikolai RiuminNikolai RiuminNikolai Nikolaevich Riumin was a Russian chess master, one of the strongest Soviet players of the 1930s.Riumin was Moscow Champion in 1931, 1933/34, and 1935. He played in four Soviet Championships. In 1929, he took 5th in a quarter final group in Odessa...
- Moscow 1935, and score (+1 –2 =0) - Akiba RubinsteinAkiba RubinsteinAkiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein was a famous Polish chess Grandmaster at the beginning of the 20th century. He was scheduled to play a match with Emanuel Lasker for the world championship in 1914, but it was cancelled because of the outbreak of World War I...
- San Sebastian 1911, and score (+1 –1 =7) - Friedrich Saemisch - Carlsbad 1929, and score (+1 –1 =0)
- Rudolf SpielmannRudolf SpielmannRudolf Spielmann was an Austrian-Jewish chess player of the romantic school, and chess writer.-Career:He was a lawyer but never worked as one....
, two wins - Bad Kissingen 1928 and Carlsbad 1929, and score (+2 –2 =8) - Mir Sultan KhanMir Sultan KhanMalik Mir Sultan Khan was the strongest chess master of his time from Asia. This manservant from British India traveled with Colonel Nawab Sir Umar Hayat Khan , his master, to Britain, where he took the chess world by storm...
- Hasting 1930/31, and score (+1 –0 =0) - Siegbert TarraschSiegbert TarraschSiegbert Tarrasch was one of the strongest chess players and most influential chess teachers of the late 19th century and early 20th century....
- Saint Petersburg 1914, and score (+1 –2 =3) - George Alan ThomasGeorge Alan ThomasSir George Alan Thomas, Bart. was a British badminton, tennis and chess player. He was twice British Chess Champion and a 21-time All-England Badminton champion. He also played in the semi-finals of the men's tennis doubles at Wimbledon in 1911...
- Hastings 1934/35, and score (+1 –6 =4) - Boris VerlinskyBoris VerlinskyBoris Markovich Verlinsky was a Ukrainian-Russian International Master of chess. He was one of the top Soviet players of the 1920s, and was in the top 20 in the world in 1926, clearly of Grandmaster strength at that time...
- Moscow 1925, and score (+1 –0 =0) - Eugene Znosko-BorovskyEugene Znosko-BorovskyEugene Alexandrovich Znosko-Borovsky was a Russian chess master, music and drama critic, teacher and author. Born in Saint Petersburg, he settled in Paris in 1920, and lived there for the rest of his life.-Biography:...
- Saint Petersburg 1913 Match Game #2, and score (+1 –3 =1)
Simultaneous exhibition games
Among others:- Barrett (S) - Philadelphia 1908
- A.H. Beckman (S) - Philadelphia 1924
- Mikhail BotvinnikMikhail BotvinnikMikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik, Ph.D. was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and three-time World Chess Champion. Working as an electrical engineer and computer scientist at the same time, he was one of the very few famous chess players who achieved distinction in another career while...
(S) - Leningrad 1925 - Juan CorzoJuan CorzoJuan Corzo y Principe was a Spanish–Cuban chess master, champion of Cuba immediately preceding José Capablanca....
(S) - Havana 1931 - Reuben FineReuben FineReuben Fine was one of the strongest chess players in the world from the early 1930s through the 1940s, an International Grandmaster, psychologist, university professor, and author of many books on both chess and psychology.Fine won five medals in three chess Olympiads. Fine won the U.S...
(S) - New York 1931 - Maurice FoxMaurice FoxMaurice Fox was a Canadian chess master. He won the Canadian Chess Championship eight times; this is tied for the most Canadian titles with Daniel Yanofsky.-Biography:...
(S) - London 1919 - Rudolf LomanRudolf LomanRudolf Loman was a Dutch chess master.Loman had been living in London for a number of years. He played chess for money against rich Englishmen, like his Dutch pupil Jacques Davidson, though he had another profession, organ player...
(S) - London 1913 - D.W. Pomeroy (S) - St Louis 1909
- Sergei ProkofievSergei ProkofievSergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
(S) - St Petersburg 1914 - E. Weiss (S) - Hamburg 1911
- Kluxen (S) - Hamburg 1911