And 28 Bf8, to block the check w/ the B instead of the Q would allow Alek. Q more mobility, so e.g. it can hit a2. It's funny on both moves, Alek. used a piece w/ more power than he needed to achieve the goal. The talk about "over protection" etc. but you have to be real precise in chess, there is no room for fat.

30.f4 <Sealing the tomb>

By all accounts, Capablanca remained supreme in lightning chess to the end. Reuben Fine, regarded by many as the outstanding speed player of the 1940s, recalls that Capablanca treated his opponents like children in fast games. The late Arthur Dake, a speed chess phenomenon of the 1930s who was easily besting Alekhine as early as the Prague Olympiad of 1931, recollected an evening when fresh from a 12-0 victory in a speed tournament that included the likes of Fine, Reshevsky, Al Horowitz, Arnold Denker and virtually every other top American master, he challenged Capablanca. Capa had just shown up, fresh from a diplomatic function, and faced down a cocky Reuben Fine, who had blurted out that fast chess was for “young men” but who would not play the Cuban for money even when offered odds. Dake wanted to play and expected Horowitz, his closest friend, to back him. Instead, Horowitz grabbed Dake’s sleeve and said, “No one plays Capa at lightning chess. I won’t back you.”

Dake also had an easy win against Capablanca (New York 1931), but blundered it away.

The exact link is: http://www.worldchessnetwork.com/En...

<WMD>:Arnold Denker wrote in his The Bobby Fischer I Knew and Other Stories about Alekhine's fit of rage at being bested by Dake at speed chess. I don't think he was making it up.

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Alekhine is likly the one drinking, the clearly sober Drake is flipping of the camera, and Capa is watching intently in the background.

On the bright side, the positional mistakes allows Dake's brilliant 24. Ng5! which easily undermines Alekhine's weak Kingside castled position.

Of course, 24.Ng5 ended those dreams.