Jose Raul Capablanca
3rd World Chess Champion · Classical era · Cuba · 1888–1942
The chess machine: eight years without a single loss, and endgames of frightening clarity.
Career In The Collection
597Games
301Wins
251Draws
44Losses
71%Score
1901–1941Active
Head-to-Head Records
| Opponent | Games | Wins | Draws | Losses | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Marshall | 51 | 21 | 28 | 2 | view games |
| Alexander Alekhine | 49 | 9 | 33 | 7 | view games |
| Emanuel Lasker | 24 | 6 | 16 | 2 | view games |
| Max Euwe | 18 | 4 | 13 | 1 | view games |
| Savielly Tartakower | 13 | 4 | 9 | 0 | view games |
| Rudolf Spielmann | 12 | 2 | 8 | 2 | view games |
| Aron Nimzowitsch | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | view games |
| Akiba Rubinstein | 9 | 1 | 7 | 1 | view games |
| Geza Maroczy | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | view games |
| Richard Reti | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | view games |
| Mikhail Botvinnik | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | view games |
| Paul Keres | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | view games |
| Samuel Reshevsky | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | view games |
| Siegbert Tarrasch | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | view games |
| Reuben Fine | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | view games |
| Carl Schlechter | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | view games |
| Joseph Blackburne | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | view games |
| Miguel Najdorf | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | view games |
| Mir Sultan Khan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | view games |
597 Games · Page 1 of 3
- 1941 vs H. Forsberg White New York A40 1-0
- 1941 vs May N Karff White New York B24 0-1
- 1941 vs J. Lewis White New York B24 0-1
- 1939 vs Moshe Czerniak White Buenos Aires ol f-A B22 1-0
- 1939 vs Moshe Czerniak Black Buenos Aires ol prel-D A45 1/2-1/2
- 1939 vs Jens Enevoldsen Black Buenos Aires ol f-A E32 0-1
- 1939 vs Salo Flohr Black Margate E11 1/2-1/2
- 1939 vs Rodrigo Flores Alvarez Black Buenos Aires ol f-A D56 1/2-1/2
- 1939 vs Harry Golombek White Margate D35 1-0
- 1939 vs Roberto Grau White Buenos Aires ol f-A A26 1/2-1/2
- 1939 vs Paul Keres Black Margate C90 1/2-1/2
- 1939 vs Paul Keres Black Buenos Aires ol prel-D C71 1/2-1/2
- 1939 vs Vera Menchik White Margate D34 1-0
- 1939 vs Vladas Mikenas White Buenos Aires ol f-A E33 1-0
- 1939 vs Philip Stuart Milner Barry Black Margate B74 1/2-1/2
- 1939 vs Miguel Najdorf White Margate E34 1/2-1/2
- 1939 vs Karel Opocensky Black Buenos Aires ol f-A E16 0-1
- 1939 vs Vladimirs Petrovs White Buenos Aires ol f-A D75 1/2-1/2
- 1939 vs Ernst Rojahn Black Buenos Aires ol prel-D C51 1/2-1/2
- 1939 vs Edward G Sergeant Black Margate C90 1/2-1/2
- 1939 vs Gideon Stahlberg White Buenos Aires ol prel-D D68 1/2-1/2
- 1939 vs Gideon Stahlberg Black Buenos Aires ol f-A D43 1/2-1/2
- 1939 vs Savielly Tartakower White Buenos Aires ol f-A B45 1/2-1/2
- 1939 vs George Alan Thomas White Margate C76 1-0
- 1939 vs Octavio Trompowsky White Buenos Aires ol f-A E01 1-0
- 1939 vs Theo D Van Scheltinga White Buenos Aires ol f-A E32 1-0
- 1939 vs G. Vassaux White Buenos Aires ol prel-D D47 1-0
- 1939 vs George Wheatcroft White Margate B20 1-0
- 1938 vs Alexander Alekhine Black AVRO C06 1-0
- 1938 vs Alexander Alekhine White AVRO E17 1/2-1/2
- 1938 vs Mikhail Botvinnik White AVRO D93 1/2-1/2
- 1938 vs Mikhail Botvinnik Black AVRO E49 1-0
- 1938 vs Max Euwe Black AVRO E18 1-0
- 1938 vs Max Euwe White AVRO E34 1-0
- 1938 vs Reuben Fine White AVRO E34 1/2-1/2
- 1938 vs Reuben Fine Black AVRO C17 1/2-1/2
- 1938 vs Salo Flohr White AVRO D83 1-0
- 1938 vs Salo Flohr Black AVRO D19 1/2-1/2
- 1938 vs Paul Keres White AVRO E42 1/2-1/2
- 1938 vs Paul Keres Black AVRO C09 1-0
- 1938 vs Samuel Reshevsky White AVRO D82 1/2-1/2
- 1938 vs Samuel Reshevsky Black AVRO E37 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Erich Gottlieb Eliskases Black Semmering/Baden D17 1-0
- 1937 vs Erich Gottlieb Eliskases White Semmering/Baden D63 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Reuben Fine Black Semmering/Baden D17 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Reuben Fine White Semmering/Baden D19 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Salo Flohr White Semmering/Baden D93 1-0
- 1937 vs Salo Flohr Black Semmering/Baden D28 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Paul Keres Black Semmering/Baden B38 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Paul Keres White Semmering/Baden D18 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Vladimirs Petrovs Black Semmering/Baden D17 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Vladimirs Petrovs White Semmering/Baden E34 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Viacheslav Ragozin Black Semmering/Baden D18 0-1
- 1937 vs Viacheslav Ragozin White Semmering/Baden D64 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Samuel Reshevsky Black Semmering/Baden D12 1/2-1/2
- 1937 vs Samuel Reshevsky White Semmering/Baden A28 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Alexander Alekhine White Nottingham A92 1-0
- 1936 vs Conel Hughes Alexander White Nottingham A25 1-0
- 1936 vs Efim Bogoljubow White Nottingham A26 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Mikhail Botvinnik White Nottingham A30 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Mikhail Botvinnik White Moscow A95 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Mikhail Botvinnik Black Moscow A30 0-1
- 1936 vs Erich Gottlieb Eliskases Black Moscow D64 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Erich Gottlieb Eliskases White Moscow C50 1-0
- 1936 vs Max Euwe White Nottingham D18 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Reuben Fine Black Nottingham D19 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Salo Flohr Black Moscow D58 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Salo Flohr Black Nottingham D59 1-0
- 1936 vs Salo Flohr Black Margate D36 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Salo Flohr White Moscow D45 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Ilia Abramovich Kan Black Moscow C25 0-1
- 1936 vs Ilia Abramovich Kan White Moscow E43 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Emanuel Lasker Black Moscow B83 0-1
- 1936 vs Emanuel Lasker White Moscow D69 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Emanuel Lasker Black Nottingham D19 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Grigory Levenfish Black Moscow D59 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Grigory Levenfish White Moscow D43 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Andor Lilienthal White Moscow A12 1-0
- 1936 vs Andor Lilienthal Black Moscow C49 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Erik Lundin White Margate D47 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Vera Menchik White Margate D06 1-0
- 1936 vs Philip Stuart Milner Barry White Margate A25 1-0
- 1936 vs Viacheslav Ragozin Black Moscow D47 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Viacheslav Ragozin White Moscow E22 1-0
- 1936 vs Tim Reilly Black Margate A47 0-1
- 1936 vs Samuel Reshevsky White Nottingham E03 1-0
- 1936 vs Nikolay Nikolaevich Riumin White Moscow A53 1-0
- 1936 vs Nikolay Nikolaevich Riumin Black Moscow A11 0-1
- 1936 vs Edward G Sergeant White Margate A09 1-0
- 1936 vs Gideon Stahlberg Black Margate D66 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Savielly Tartakower Black Nottingham D03 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs George Alan Thomas Black Margate D66 0-1
- 1936 vs George Alan Thomas Black Nottingham C73 0-1
- 1936 vs Theodore Tylor White Nottingham E62 1-0
- 1936 vs Theodore Tylor Black Margate D13 1/2-1/2
- 1936 vs Milan Sr Vidmar Black Nottingham D43 0-1
- 1936 vs William Winter Black Nottingham A47 0-1
- 1935 vs Vladimir Alatortsev Black Moscow D53 0-1
- 1935 vs Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk White Moscow D31 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Mikhail Botvinnik White Moscow D90 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Vitaly Chekhover Black Moscow E16 0-1
- 1935 vs William Albert Fairhurst White Margate E39 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Salo Flohr Black Moscow D62 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Victor Arsentievich Goglidze White Moscow D60 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Ilia Abramovich Kan White Moscow D67 1-0
- 1935 vs Ernst Ludwig Klein Black Margate D17 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Emanuel Lasker Black Moscow C15 1-0
- 1935 vs Grigory Levenfish White Moscow D49 1-0
- 1935 vs Andor Lilienthal White Moscow D94 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Georgy Lisitsin Black Moscow A11 0-1
- 1935 vs Vera Menchik Black Margate A48 0-1
- 1935 vs Vera Menchik White Moscow E85 1-0
- 1935 vs Jacques Mieses White Margate D46 1-0
- 1935 vs Philip Stuart Milner Barry White Margate C78 1-0
- 1935 vs Vasja Pirc Black Moscow A00 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich White Moscow D20 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Viacheslav Ragozin White Moscow E24 1-0
- 1935 vs Brian Patrick Reilly White Margate D62 1-0
- 1935 vs Samuel Reshevsky Black Margate D62 1-0
- 1935 vs Nikolay Nikolaevich Riumin Black Moscow E37 1-0
- 1935 vs Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky Black Moscow C73 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Edward G Sergeant Black Margate C01 0-1
- 1935 vs Rudolf Spielmann Black Moscow C15 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs Gideon Stahlberg Black Moscow D61 1/2-1/2
- 1935 vs George Alan Thomas White Margate E16 1-0
- 1934 vs Mikhail Botvinnik White Hastings3435 A91 1/2-1/2
- 1934 vs Max Euwe Black Hastings3435 D64 1/2-1/2
- 1934 vs Salo Flohr White Hastings3435 D71 1/2-1/2
- 1934 vs Andor Lilienthal Black Hastings3435 E24 1-0
- 1934 vs Vera Menchik Black Hastings3435 E16 0-1
- 1934 vs Reginald Pryce Michell White Hastings3435 D52 1-0
- 1934 vs Philip Stuart Milner Barry White Hastings3435 E33 1-0
- 1934 vs George Marshall Norman Black Hastings3435 E80 0-1
- 1934 vs George Alan Thomas White Hastings3435 D61 0-1
- 1933 vs L. Farrugia White Panama sim C28 1-0
- 1933 vs LA. Gomez White Panama sim C25 1/2-1/2
- 1933 vs Herman Steiner White Los Angeles C49 1-0
- 1931 vs Arthur William Dake White New York D17 1-0
- 1931 vs Max Euwe White Amsterdam m3 D34 1/2-1/2
- 1931 vs Max Euwe Black Amsterdam m3 E44 1/2-1/2
- 1931 vs Max Euwe White Amsterdam m3 E22 1/2-1/2
- 1931 vs Max Euwe Black Amsterdam m3 E16 1/2-1/2
- 1931 vs Max Euwe Black Amsterdam m3 E40 1/2-1/2
- 1931 vs Max Euwe White Amsterdam m3 D17 1-0
- 1931 vs Max Euwe White Amsterdam m3 D47 1/2-1/2
- 1931 vs Max Euwe Black Amsterdam m3 E16 1/2-1/2
- 1931 vs Max Euwe White Amsterdam m3 E35 1-0
- 1931 vs Max Euwe Black Amsterdam m3 E16 1/2-1/2
- 1931 vs Maurice Fox Black New York E55 0-1
- 1931 vs Israel Albert Horowitz White New York A12 1-0
- 1931 vs Isaac Kashdan White New York D61 1/2-1/2
- 1931 vs Alexander Kevitz Black New York A12 0-1
- 1931 vs Abraham Kupchik Black New York C73 0-1
- 1931 vs Edward Lasker Black New York E35 0-1
- 1931 vs Frank Marshall Black New York E16 0-1
- 1931 vs Anthony Edward Santasiere White New York A07 1-0
- 1931 vs Herman Steiner White New York C74 1/2-1/2
- 1931 vs Isador Samuel Turover White New York A03 1-0
- 1930 vs Edgar Colle White Hastings 3031 E34 1-0
- 1930 vs Max Euwe Black Hastings 3031 D52 1/2-1/2
- 1930 vs Vera Menchik Black Hastings 3031 A47 0-1
- 1930 vs Reginald Pryce Michell Black Hastings 3031 B18 1/2-1/2
- 1930 vs Mir Sultan Khan Black Hastings 3031 E12 1-0
- 1930 vs George Alan Thomas White Hastings 3031 D69 1/2-1/2
- 1930 vs Theodore Tylor White Hastings 3031 D30 1-0
- 1930 vs William Winter Black Hastings 3031 D51 0-1
- 1930 vs Frederick Yates White Hastings 3031 D66 1-0
- 1929 vs J. Aguilera Black Barcelona E23 0-1
- 1929 vs Albert Becker White Karlsbad D37 1-0
- 1929 vs Efim Bogoljubow White Karlsbad E72 1/2-1/2
- 1929 vs Alfred Brinckmann White Budapest D17 1-0
- 1929 vs Esteban Canal Black Karlsbad C50 1/2-1/2
- 1929 vs Esteban Canal Black Budapest E16 0-1
- 1929 vs Edgar Colle White Budapest E22 1-0
- 1929 vs Edgar Colle White Barcelona B36 1-0
- 1929 vs Edgar Colle Black Karlsbad A47 0-1
- 1929 vs Max Euwe Black Karlsbad E36 1/2-1/2
- 1929 vs Joaquim Font Black Barcelona C50 0-1
- 1929 vs Karl Gilg White Karlsbad D30 1-0
- 1929 vs Manuel Golmayo de la Torriente White Barcelona D30 1-0
- 1929 vs Ernst Gruenfeld Black Karlsbad C49 1/2-1/2
- 1929 vs Kornel Havasi Black Budapest E34 0-1
- 1929 vs Paul F Johner Black Karlsbad E29 0-1
- 1929 vs Valentin Marin y Llovet Black Barcelona C46 0-1
- 1929 vs Geza Maroczy White Hastings D30 1/2-1/2
- 1929 vs Geza Maroczy White Karlsbad D64 1-0
- 1929 vs Frank Marshall White Karlsbad E15 1-0
- 1929 vs Hermanis Matisons White Karlsbad E38 1-0
- 1929 vs Vera Menchik White Hastings D41 1-0
- 1929 vs Vera Menchik Black Karlsbad A47 0-1
- 1929 vs Vera Menchik White Barcelona B02 1-0
- 1929 vs Reginald Pryce Michell White Ramsgate schev A25 1-0
- 1929 vs Mario Monticelli White Budapest D63 1/2-1/2
- 1929 vs Mario Monticelli Black Barcelona A47 0-1
- 1929 vs Aron Nimzowitsch Black Karlsbad B37 1/2-1/2
- 1929 vs E. Price Black Hastings E16 0-1
- 1929 vs H. Price Black Ramsgate schev E16 0-1
- 1929 vs Ladislav Prokes Black Budapest A46 0-1
- 1929 vs Dawid Przepiorka Black Budapest E34 1/2-1/2
- 1929 vs Ramon Rey Ardid White Barcelona A31 1-0
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