My Chess Career. By J. R. Capablanca. (Bell. 7s. 6d.
net.) —Any one who is interested in chess should read this remarkable book. Seiler Capablanca gives a brief account of his life, and then proceeds to annotate the principal games that he has played from 1900-1 to last summer. The young Cuban diplomatist tells us that before ho was five years old he played his first game with his father and won it. The best players in Havana could not give him a queen. At twelve he was the chess champion of Cuba. He is now thirty-one, and is admittedly the most brilliant player living. His notes on his games are lucid and vivacious, and are evidently the outcome of a powerful intellect which, by some freak of nature, finds its fullest ex- pression in chess. Most readers will bo tempted to work out the games on the board. Seiler Capablanca's combination of cool reflection and daring may well be irresistible. In tempera. ment he reminds us of Marshal Foch.
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