I’ve just found this snippet in my late father’s diaries:
“My great-uncle Philip Mason played chess for Lincolnshire and
used to tell of his encounter with Capablanca, when the master
took on Philip and scores of others simultaneously at a public
demonstration in Sheffield (one of three such that Capablanca played
in October 1919 in Bradford, Leeds and then Sheffield).
After a few moves Capablanca invited Philip to resign, much to
Philip’s mystification and indignation, so Capablanca patiently explained
the next dozen moves or so which would lead infallibly to Philip’s defeat.”
