The Swiss club maintained their social activities in 1933 despite the fact that in Havana there was a feeling politically agitated. Even in chess there was some division Cuban and even had two organizations that govern the chess claimed the Land of the island in 1974 I spoke with Mrs. Sara Castellón, who was champion Cuba for one of these organizations during those years and was the rival of the renowned Teresa Mora, winner of the other organization and that was always more popular among chess Capablanca Cuba because the praised and was the representative in the first Olympiad in which Cuba, led of course by Capablanca participated in Buenos Aires 1939, and that Doña Teresa Mora was the first Cuban who participated in a Women's World Championship. As time has passed!. Now a Cuban women's team, managed to get nothing less than a fourth in the world, accompanied by an individual gold medal. The fact is that Lady Sara, then, in 1974, based in Puerto Rico and representative in the Olympics for that country, gave me a picture of giving simultaneous Capablanca in April 1933 in the Swiss club of Acosta Street. Crossing this street is difficult to locate the place of the club at present, but with help from an old friend, I would recreate as at that time the social activities of that institution.
In April the weather is quite hot in Havana, but we can see the photo displayed warm enough participants in the simultaneous, perhaps sacrificing too much comfort for the sake of elegance. I wish I had a picture of Mrs. Sara at the time, but although she participated in the simultaneous in which the great Capablanca faced 25 opponents, not pictured. But the memory of 1974, elegant and pleasant conversation with a memory that I explained on time and in detail, the political situations Cuban chess at that time and in which a chess player, chess former champion of Mexico, Manuel Marquez Sterling Loret de Mola, was President of the Republic of Cuba for a few hours.
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