José Raúl Capablanca was a chess grandmaster and the World chess champion in 1921 to 1927, Capablanca appeared in the Soviet film Shakhmatnaya goryachka from 1925, which was filmed while he was competing in an international tournament in Moscow, Russia.

Capablanca died in 1942 from a brain hemorrhage, at the age of 53. Today he continues to be remembered for being one of the best chess players in history, being ahead of his time, and his revolutionary way of playing chess, he was nicknamed "The Mozart of Chess."