Siegbert Tarrasch
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Siegbert Tarrasch was a German chess player, considered to have been among the strongest players and most influential theoreticians of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Tarrasch, c. 1900
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Tarrasch and Mikhail Chigorin in Saint Petersburg, 1893
José Raúl Capablanca
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José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera was a Cuban chess player who was the third world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. A chess prodigy, he was widely renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed o
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…world. He finished fourth in the very strong St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament, behind only World Champion Emanuel Lasker, and future World Champions José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine. His win against Capablanca in the 19th round, though much less famous than Lasker's win against Capablanca the round before…
Capablanca in 1931
Capablanca playing chess with his father, José María Capablanca, in 1892
Capablanca in 1915
First Match game between Alekhine and Capablanca on 14 December 1913 in an exhibition in St. Petersburg