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Chess Facts found on the Internet - José Raúl Capablanca (1888-1942) was born in Cuba, the second surviving son of an army officer. Capablanca learned the moves at 4 years old by watching his father play. Capablanca refused to study chess and he never read chess books or studied chess openings. Becoming the World Champion despite this is evidence that he was possibly one of the greatest natural chess players that ever lived. If any chess player had what the film Star Wars referred to as "The force", it was Capablanca. Intuition enabled him to rapidly comprehend chess positions, especially endgames, which he immediately knew where all the pieces should go. After a mere glance at a position he could understand all of its subtleties. Exploiting his great endgame strength, he often steered games toward simple positions where he had a much better understanding than that of his opponents... If you want to read more, just follow this link