Kingscrusher capablanca biography

Miguel Angel Sanchez, José Raúl Capablanca: A Chess Biography, McFarland & Company,
Jefferson, North Carolina, USA. Foreword by Andy Soltis, pages, deluxe edition hardcover.

A review by Juan S. Morgado

It is a luxurious work and a true labor of love.

In 18 chapters Sánchez retells Capablanca’s life, the foreword was written by the American grandmaster and renowned author Andy Soltis, while an epilogue, two appendices, notes to the chapters, an extensive bibliography and four different indices conclude the volume. The book also contains numerous illustrations, almost two hundreds annotated games, cross tables of Capablanca’s most important tournaments, a number of rare or unpublished photographs and cartoons, and even a medical study that sheds light on the health issues that plagued Capablanca at the end of his career.

In the foreword Andy Soltis asks why we continue to be fascinated by C kingscrusher capablanca biography5 POZ