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The Chess Machine: Jose Raul Capablanca - Chess Biography E-Book

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The Chess Machine: Jose Raul Capablanca

No chess player's education is complete without reference to the games and works of Jose Raul Capablanca, 3rd World Chess Champion. Capablanca had perhaps the greatest natural talent for chess ever seen. A prodigy, he developed rapidly and effortlessly to become the foremost player in the world, easily beating Lasker for the title of 3rd World Chess Champion. Capablanca's amazing style of play is characterized by his precision and iron logic, combined with almost complete freedom from error. Handsome and debonair, his rapid rate of play gained him star status with his adoring public who dubbed him "The Chess Machine."

Now you can relive the grand career of Caissa's favorite son, Jose Raul Capablanca in this fully-loaded interactive chess biography. The Chess Machine includes:

* 1,214 games played by Capablanca - the most complete collection ever!
* 16 text documents of biography and recollections about Capablanca
* 80 games annotated by Capablanca, with full text commentary
* Theme keys, photos, and even music by Capablanca's friend Andres Segovia!
* 3 e-books by Capablanca: The Capablanca-Lasker Match, 1921, My Chess Career, and Chess Fundamentals
* Complete crosstables in .pdf format

NOTE: This interactive e-book is in ChessBase .cbv format. Requires ChessBase 6.0 or higher, Fritz, (any ChessBase engine software), or the free ChessBase Reader which can be downloaded at no cost.

System requirements, minimum: Pentium 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM, Windows Vista or Windows XP (Service Pack 2)

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