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José Raúl Capablanca

Cuban chess player (1888-1942).

Born November 6th, 1888 in Havana. [ref]

Died March 8th, 1942 at 53 years old in New York City (cerebral hemorrhage). [ref]

Occupations
chess player, diplomat, non-fiction writer

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner