Crossword-Solution: CAPABLANCA 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

The next aspirant for the World's Championship is the young Cuban, Jose Raoul Capablanca, who has proved to be superior to all masters except Lasker.

Castles In Capablanca’s opinion Black should not castle before White’s intentions in the centre have been made clear.

However, Capablanca finds the right move in all the ensuing complications, and finally wins the game.

For instance, let us take an incident which occurred in his early boyhood when he found out what sort of man his father really was--a sombre event in the life of any boy, much more so for the boy Capablanca.

Capablanca says: "Conceit I consider a foolish thing; but more foolish still is that false modesty that vainly attempts to conceal that which all facts tend to prove." It is this straining to overcome a foolish, false modesty which leads him to say, in connection with his matches with members of the Manhattan Chess Club.