When and where was this picture with Capablanca taken?
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When and where was this picture with Capablanca taken?
This was sent in by Kevin Marchese
This was taken in Havana. Don’t know the year or event.
From left to right, GM’s Janowsky,
Lilienthal,Marshall,Kann,Teichmann,
Reti,Lasker,Euwe,Colle, Bogolyubov,
The next twenty I’m not to sure about.
I am having trouble pinpointing…which ones are Euwe and Colle? Describe them.
Edward Lasker, that is. The USchess magazine editor/reporter, Lederer? Bogolyubov standing up in chair in corner. Don’t know the year either.
Looks like it was taken in a big room that the fire marshall was about to shut down for overcrowding.
To illustrate Capablanca’s utter dominance at chess, consider that his world-championship match defeat to Alekhine in 1927 involved their games being played in utter secrecy behind closed doors. After reviewing this match for many, many decades, along with exhaustive computer analysis comparing Capa’s strategy/tactics play in this match with every other known game of his from 1915+ to around 1935+ I am convinced that he deliberately lost this match to Alekhine because no one would back anyone against him, and every other player so feared playing him, and likely even helped Alekhine win. My grandfather, a confident of Capa’s, claimed that this was the gospel truth his entire life. Capa owned chess like no other player, before or since.