| Jul-04-02 |
| morphynoman: Capablanca is not lost if he plays 61... Kb8 62. Kb4 Bb7! |
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Feb-13-04
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| Honza Cervenka: Chessgames.com, there is a little mistake in the gamescore here. Capablanca did not play 81...Kc5 (Of course, it does not make any sense as then white can play simply 82.b7), but Kc6. <Capablanca is not lost if he plays 61... Kb8 62. Kb4 Bb7!> That is true as the pawn ending after 63.Bxb7 Kxb7 64.Kb5 h5! is drawish (black King can reach the critical field f8 just in time: 65.Kc5 Kb8 66.Kd5 Kb7 67.Ke5 Kxb6 68.Kf5 Kc7 69.Kg5 Kd8 70.Kxh5 Ke8 71.Kg6 Kf8 =) and after 63.Bb5 Bf3 64.Kc5 Kb7 white probably cannot enhence further his position. On the other hand Capablanca could lose this game much erlier. For example instead of 45.Bh7?! Eliskases could have played 45.Bf5 Be8 (Bishop cannot leave diagonal e8-h5 for simple Bg6 with next e6-e7) 46.Be4 Kb7 (what else?) 47.Kd6 with a quick win. Also 45.Bxa6 Bg4 46.e7 Bd7 (46...Kd7? 47.Bc8+!  ; 46...Bh5 47.b5 cxb5 48.Bxb5 Bf7 49.Ba4 Bh5 50.Kd5 Bg6 51.Ke5 Bh5 52.Ke6 Kb6 53.Kf6 Kc7 54.e8=Q Bxe8 55.Bxe8 ) 47.Bd3 Be8 48.Be4 [It is a zugwang: 48...Kb7 49.b5 or 48...Bd7 49.Bg6 or 48...Kd7 49.Bxc6+ Kxe7 50.Bxe8 or 48...Bf7(h5) 49.Bxc6 ] 48...h5 49.Bf3 would have won the game easily. This game including its mistakes seems to be a very good stuff for studying of Bishop endings. |
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Feb-13-04
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| Benzol: <Honza> I agree with you that 81... c6 is the most logical move but my book on Capablanca's games by Rogelio Caparros gives 81...c5 as the move played. I wonder if both players were in severe time trouble?
Does anyone have the Chess Stars book on Capa's games? If so could they look up the gamescore there. |
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| Feb-13-04 |
| marcus13: Wow a great final. It looks like the game was draw but capa prove it was no. Beautiful manoeuvrer. A sweet game. |
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| Feb-14-04 |
| Lawrence: Benzol, "Chess Stars" confirms what Honza said, that Capa played 81...c6. |
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Feb-14-04
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| Benzol: <Lawrence> Thanks. I think maybe I should get the 2 Chess Stars books on Capablanca. |
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| Feb-15-04 |
| Lawrence: Benzol, be warned that the "Chess Stars" books have absolutely no commentary, just the games with variations. Personally I'm getting a bit dubious now about lashing out money on books when there's so much free info on the net. From now on if I spend money it'll be on CDs and DVDs. Those clicky-clicky Javascript boards make such a difference. |
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| Feb-15-04 |
| PaulKeres: I agree <Lawrence> , there is so much good stuff on the net for free |
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Feb-15-04
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| Honza Cervenka: The database of chessbase.com has this game with 81...Kc6. |
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Feb-15-04
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| chessgames.com: Yes it should be, 81...c6. Thanks. |
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| Feb-17-04 |
| PaulKeres: chessgames.com, how do you get those great figurative symbols, eg the picture of the king rather than K? Thanks |
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| Feb-17-04 |
| Lawrence: Paul, you just put wriggly brackets around the moves. |
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| Feb-17-04 |
| PaulKeres: Nice one, lets try 1. e4 e5 2.  f3 |
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| Feb-17-04 |
| PaulKeres: Excellent, thanks! |
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| Feb-17-04 |
| drukenknight: how to lose an endgame. Most effective way? Give up the opposition. I think if he can exchange B will having the opposition he would be okay. |
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| Oct-06-04 |
| Minor Piece Activity: 28...b6? was bad, breaking up the pawns, but isn't 30. Bf1 refuted by 30...a5 31. Nd3 a4 or is the passed overextended? |
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| Oct-06-04 |
| Minor Piece Activity: Nevermind, I see 31. Na4+ and black would lose a pawn. |
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Jan-24-06
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| waddayaplay: <It looks like the game was draw but capa prove it was no.> It was Eliskases who excelled in this game. |
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Jan-24-06
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| waddayaplay: < In the 1937 elite tournament at Semmering, although failing to reach the 50% mark, he had the personal satisfaction of not only having defeated the final winner, the then 21-year-old Paul Keres, but also having outplayed former world champion Jose Raul Capablanca in the Cuban's own field of excellence, the endgame. > http://www.gardenachess.com/archiv/... |
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Jan-18-08
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| plang: The system with 6..Nbd7, 7..Qc7 and 8..e5 was popular in the 30s but is rarely played now presumably because of the strength of the response 8 g3 and 10 Bf4 which is an annoying pin for black. Alekhine referred to 8 g3 as the "Capablanca System" although, as in this game, Capablanca played the black side as well. Later on in 1937 the improvement 14 Ne4 was introduced by Euwe in game 1 of his second match with Alekhine. Eliskases had an advantage in the endgame because his kingside majority was more mobile than blacks queenside one. Eliskases recommended 28..Ne6 29 Kf2..Nd4 as a better defense. Eliskases referred to 30..Ne6! as a "sly defensive move". Reshevsky pointed out that white could have tried the interesting 31 Bh3 but that black then could have drawn by sacrificing a piece: 31..a5!
32 Bxe6..Bxe6 33 Nxe6..axb 34 Nd4..Kc5
35 Nb3+..Kc4 36 Na5+..Kb5 37 Nb3+..Kc4
(38 Nd2..Kd3 is dangerous for white).
Capablanca thought for an hour on 32..g5. Afterwards he said that he could have drawn with 32..c5 though Eliskases was not convinced. 43 e7 followed by Ke5, Kf6 and Bf7 would have been the easiest way to win. |
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| Jun-22-08 |
| pferd: This ending is featured in Paul Keres book, Practical Chess Endings. He also gives the following ending, composed by Troitsky in 1925, long before the invention of tablebases: White to move and win.
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