This book tells about a brilliant chess player and a charming person, world champion 1921-1927, a great friend of Soviet chess players Cuban Jose-Raula Capablanca. In a detailed biographical sketch, the author recreates a dramatic picture of the struggle for world championship, which for three decades led behind the Lasker chessboard, Capablanca, Alekhine. Creative views of the great Cuban, his hopes and delusions, victories and defeats, his life and his struggle come alive again in the pages of this book. In the parts of Capablanca, these subtle works of a brilliant artist, his ideas and discoveries will always live. And to everyone who loves chess, they will always bring the joy that works of art can give a person.