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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 158. Chapters: Albert Huntington Chester, Alfred Chester Beatty, Alfred Norton Goldsmith, Ami Miron, Andy Ross, Anna Kazanjian Longobardo, Antoine Marc Gaudin, Arthur Kantrowitz, Arthur V. Loughren, Bob Akin, Charles Buxton Going, Charles F. Chandler, Chester Holmes Aldrich, Chuck Hoberman, Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science, Daniel C. Drucker, David E. Shaw, David Eppstein, David Steinman, DeWitt Clinton, Dorian M. Goldfeld, Edward Calvin Kendall, Edward Lawry Norton, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Eliahu I. Jury, Elmer L. Gaden, Eugene H. Trinh, Feisal Abdul Rauf, Feniosky Pena-Mora, Ferdinand Freudenstein, Frederick Remsen Hutton, Gano Dunn, George Soper, Gregory H. Johnson, Grover Loening, Harvey Seeley Mudd, Hazel Bishop, Henry Krumb, Henry Ludwig Michel, Henry S. Coleman, Herbert L. Anderson, Herman Hollerith, Herschel Clifford Parker, Hewitt Crane, Horatio Allen, Hyman G. Rickover, Ira Fuchs, Irving Langmuir, Isaac Asimov, Ismail Gulgee, Jacqueline Barton, James Albaugh, James Cooley, James Kip Finch, Jeffrey Bleustein, John W. Marchetti, Joseph Engelberger, Joseph F. Traub, Jose Raul Capablanca, Joshua Bloch, Kai-Fu Lee, Ken Bowersox, Kevin P. Chilton, Langston Hughes, Leon Davidson, Leon Moisseiff, Lewis A. Sanders, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Louis Doremus Huntoon, Masanobu Shinozuka, Michael J. Massimino, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Morris Schapiro, Mubashir Hassan, Nullsleep, Omar Barghouti, Peter Cooper Hewitt, Peter DiMaggio, Peter Glaser, Philip Sporn, Raymond D. Mindlin, Richard G. Newman, Robert C. Merton, Robert D. Lilley, Robert Moog, Robert Spinrad, Roland Duer Irving, Rudolf E. Kalman, Sanjiv Ahuja, Santiago Calatrava, Saul Amarel, Sheldon E. Isakoff, Sheldon Weinig, Stephen Schneider, Steve Perlman, T. Stephen Crawford, Ted Rall, Thomas Egleston, Ursula Burns, Vikram Pandit, William Barclay Parsons, William Bizzell, William F. Schreiber, William G. Gregory, William H. Woodin. Excerpt: Jose Raul Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. One of the greatest players of all time, he was renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play. Due to his achievements in the chess world, mastery over the board and his relatively simple style of play he was nicknamed the "Human Chess Machine." He is widely regarded as the most naturally talented chess player in history. Jose Raul Capablanca, the second surviving son of a Spanish army officer, was born in Havana on November 19, 1888. According to Capablanca, he learned the rules of the game at the age of four by watching his father play, pointed out an illegal move by his father, and then beat his father twice. At the age of eight he was taken to Havana Chess Club, which had hosted many important contests, but on the advice of a doctor he was not allowed to play frequently. Between November and December 1901, he narrowly beat the Cuban Chess Champion, Juan Corzo, in a match. However, in April 1902 he only came in fourth out of six in the National Championship, losing both his games against Corzo. In 1905 Capablanca passed the entrance examinations with ease for Columbia University in New York City, where he wished to play for Columbia's strong baseball team, and soon was selected as shortstop on the freshman team. In the same year he joined the Manhattan Chess Club, and was soon recognized as the club's strongest player. He was particularly dominant in rapid chess, winning a tournament ahead of the reigning World Chess Champion, Emanuel Lasker, in 1906. In 1908 he left the university to concentrate on chess. According to Columbia University, Capablanca enrolled at Columbia's School of Mines, Engineering and Chemistry in September, 1910, to study chemical engineering. Later, his financial support was withdrawn because he...
