José Raúl Capablanca (1888-1942)
Capablanca’s Late Brilliance in New York 1931
Quelle: Chess.com – „A Century of Chess: New York 1931“, Sam Kahn, 7. Oktober 2025
Beim New-York-Turnier 1931 zeigte José Raúl Capablanca noch einmal, warum er als Inbegriff eleganter Schachkunst gilt. Mit neun Siegen und zwei Remis dominierte der frühere Weltmeister das Feld – ein spätes Glanzstück in einer Stadt, in der er bereits viele seiner größten Erfolge gefeiert hatte. Doch unter der makellosen Bilanz verbarg sich auch Glück: Gegen Arthur Dake und Alexander Kevitz stand Capablanca klar auf Verlust, gegen Herman Steiner verlor er eine ganze Figur und rettete dennoch ein Remis.
Trotz dieser Aussetzer blitzte sein Genie in Partien wie dem berühmten Sieg gegen Israel A. Horowitz auf – ein „kaltes, unerbittliches Schach“, das Schriftsteller Raymond Chandler später in The High Window literarisch verewigte. Das Turnier markierte zugleich den Aufbruch einer neuen amerikanischen Generation: Dake, Kevitz und Steiner prägten fortan das US-Schach, während Isaac Kashdan, der mit +6 =5 ungeschlagen blieb, als „kleiner Capablanca“ gefeiert wurde.
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Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth, in progress at the time of his death, was completed by Robert B. Parker). All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature. He is a founder of the hardboiled school of detective fiction, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other Black Mask writers. The protagonist of his novels, Philip Marlowe, like Hammett's Sam Spade, is considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective". Both were played in films by Humphrey Bogart, whom many consider to be the quintessential Marlowe. At least three of Chandler's novels have been regarded as masterpieces, including Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Little Sister (1949), and The Long Goodbye (1953). The Long Goodbye was praised in an anthology of American crime stories as "arguably the first book since Hammett's The Glass Key, published more than twenty years earlier, to qualify as a serious and significant mainstream novel that just happened to possess elements of mystery".
