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José Raul Capablanca : My Chess Career or Chess Fundamentals

'[...] two or three times a week after dinner we got out the chessmen and board and spent a couple of hours playing through the games in Capablanca's book. We played every game in the book, J[oseph] C[onrad] reading the moves, stopping where Capablanca had made a comment, so we could write down our own observations.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

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