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| Sep-16-09 | | TheMacMan: fritz gives 25.Bf3??, and says its weak and inferior to 25.Qc5!! |
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| Aug-12-10 | | sevenseaman: It cannot be that Spielmann is not a good player; Capablanca is gently persuasive. |
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| Oct-18-10 | | twin phoenix: <Paladin At Large> Thanks for posting your top 10 game selection. I have enjoyed going through your collection thouroughly!!! |
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| Feb-21-11 | | Dr. Funkenstein: In case anyone was wondering about the pun,
It's a line from this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYmI...
Although maybe the Hunter/Garcia took it from an older source |
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Feb-21-11
 | | OhioChessFan: I guess I don't see what's so great about the game. Black's one move blunder 17...Qd5? and he might as well have resigned on the spot. |
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Feb-21-11
| | OhioChessFan: I had a look at AJ's analysis. I do agree with him that exchanging Black's DSB for the Knight is a strange play. That simply can't be best and IMHO throws away a tempo. I guess the excitement of the game is how quickly Capa finishes the game after the obviously poor Qd5. FWIW, I think 17...Bb7 to connect the Rooks seems right. |
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| Feb-21-11 | | newzild: A famous game by the great Cuban. This was deemed one of the 100 greatest games of all time by three English grandmasters (I think Graham Burgess was one of them). |
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| Feb-21-11 | | Chesschatology: AJ thanks for your great analysis. What a game. It reminded me of Fischer's comment in which he said that Capa's "apparent simplicity is a myth: his play was razor-sharp". If you look at the game for the first time, initially it appears to be, as <OhioChessFan> said: pedestrian; equality with a one-move blunder. Look at in detail and it becomes apparent that from a normal looking position, Capa unerringly walked with stately steps down the slim and deadly path of perfection. He's like a Samurai swordsman, seeing through the noise of battle to the simple, elusive soul of the fight: the single, casual, fatal thrust. Which is to say... XXXXing beautiful. |
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| Feb-21-11 | | Marmot PFL: Nimzovich said of Spielman that he always tried to solve every problem by attack, but that often it was necessary to play positional or defensive moves. |
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Feb-21-11
 | | johnlspouge: < <TheMacMan> wrote: fritz gives 25.Bf3??, and says its weak and inferior to 25.Qc5!! > Toga evaluates 25.Qc5 (14 P) as better than 25.Bf3 (12 P) also. (I omit trailing decimals as insignificant: may all my weak moves be worth 12 Ps!) Capablanca might have played 25.Bf3 as a safe defensive psychological move, snuffing all Spielmann's hopes. It's hard to call any move weak, when the opponent resigns after the next move. |
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| Feb-21-11 | | WhiteRook48: I don't know, almost all moves win |
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| Feb-21-11 | | AnalyzeThis: If you play a move like 17.... bxa4 you're basically saying goodbye to all your queenside pawns, sooner or later. |
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| Feb-22-11 | | Roger Krueger: Hmmm, not the 1st, 2nd or 583rd place I'd have expected a Dead reference. Opens whole new realms of punnish possibilities. |
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| Feb-22-11 | | LIFE Master AJ: This was the "Game of The Day" for Monday; February 21st, 2011. |
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| Feb-22-11 | | TheOutsider: Qc5 would have looked better. |
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Feb-23-11
 | | kevin86: A good one---Capa wins,but not ho-hum style. |
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| Feb-25-11 | | LIFE Master AJ: Feb-25-11
delete LIFE Master AJ: <<Feb-21-11 Chesschatology: AJ thanks for your great analysis.>>
(blush) ... and your are (OF COURSE!!!) welcome. :)
Thanks for the comments. Believe it or not, it took me about four months to do the analysis and the webpage. (I wanted it to be close to perfect as possible.) Only a good critic will know if I succeeded ... or even came close. |
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| Mar-16-12 | | notyetagm: EPIPHANY!!!
T.Kosintseva vs Stefanova EICC Rapid w (9) 2012
Caruana vs Giri Tata Steel Chess (Group A) 2012
Capablanca vs Spielmann New York 1927
ALWAYS BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR WAYS TO CREATE A DEADLY PASSED PAWN(S)! PASSED PAWNS ARE POWERFUL!!!
BUT THEY DO NOT JUST FALL OUT OF A CLEAR BLUE SKY!!!
THEY HAVE TO BE CREATED!!!
20 Re1xe7+! |
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| Sep-02-13 | | RedShield: <Here is a game that seems perfectly natural once one has played through it; but no one, save Capablanca, could have produced it.> Harry Golombek |
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| May-14-14 | | Capacorn: This game is a perfect illustration of Capablanca's lucid style, and why it's often said that he made moves lesser mortals felt they themselves could find. That's an illusion, though, isn't it? It reminds me of the old Spielmann quote: "I can see the combinations as well as Alekhine, but I cannot get to the same positions." And therein lies the rub. Capa's bishop sac, and the resulting passer, isn't especially hard to see. But how many could build up the position to the point where that combination is even possible? Genius.... |
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May-14-14
 | | offramp: <TheMacMan: fritz gives 25.Bf3??, and says its weak and inferior to 25.Qc5!!> That seems a bit drastic. I wonder what the silicon brain had seen? |
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| May-14-14 | | RookFile: All I know is when I try to play like Capa (queen on a5, etc.) in my games, it usually leads to me getting mated on the kingside. You have to be pretty cold blooded to play like this. |
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| May-15-14 | | Capacorn: <RookFile: All I know is when I try to play like Capa (queen on a5, etc.) in my games, it usually leads to me getting mated on the kingside. You have to be pretty cold blooded to play like this.> Funny you should say that. Upon seeing Capa's Qa5, I thought something similar. In my own games, that move usually hasn't turned out so well. The lady often winds up out of play. I'll normally bring her back out of general principal. Of course, sometimes there's concrete justification for making such a move. I just don't see it very often. As for trying to "play like Capa," I couldn't if I wanted to. My talent, such as it is, lies in tactical, not positional, play. As a Cuban, I'm very proud of Capablanca; but I'm not a huge fan of his games (this one being a notable exception). Ironically enough, I enjoy the games of his nemesis, Alekhine, much more. |
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Aug-09-18
 | | MissScarlett: <<Here is a game that seems perfectly natural once one has played through it; but no one, save Capablanca, could have produced it.> Harry Golombek> Hmmm, let's try this.
<[Chess] so natural that it could not be otherwise, and yet so surprising as to make the heart stand still, just for a moment.> |
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| Aug-09-18 | | Boomie: <offramp: <TheMacMan: fritz gives 25.Bf3??, and says its weak and inferior to 25.Qc5!!> That seems a bit drastic. I wonder what the silicon brain had seen?> When there are many roads to victory, it doesn't matter to humans which road is taken. Consider Morphy's demolition of Paulsen, where he did not use the most efficient method of execution. (Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857) Well, the game was over and who cares at that point? |
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