Apr-03-04
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| acirce: Instructive pawn storm by Capa. |
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| Apr-03-04 |
| chessfected: 24...Nf4?? appalling blunder |
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Apr-04-04
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| Calli: Black is lost anyway, so I would not call it a blunder. Maybe its not the best move in bad position, but white will play c5 in any case. Capablanca pointed to 21...Kb7? as losing. "The text move loses very rapidly. It would have been better for Black to play 21...Kd8" - JRC |
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| Apr-04-04 |
| Lawrence: After an 18 min. search Junior says that 21...Kd8 is worse than 21...Kb7. The only thing it finds better than 21...Kb7 (eval +1.94) is 21...Qd6 and even that has an eval of +1.66. 21...Kd8 gets +2.90! |
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Apr-05-04
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| Calli: Interesting are Capa's comments about the opening
After 5.Nc3
"I played this move after having discussed it with Alekhine on several occasions. Alekhine considered it, at the time, superior to 5.d4 which is generally played. He played it himself later on in the Tournament, in one of his games against Dr. E. Lasker, and obtained the superior game, which he only lost through a blunder." - Capablanca Here we see an early friendship with Alekhine and also how the exchange variation of the Ruy Lopez was much discussed at the time. This adds to my contention that Lasker's employment of the variation later in the tournament was hardly a surprise. <Lawrence> Still think Capablanca is correct. Black is in a losing position and on Kb7 as played, the king will never be safe. Kd8 should also lose, but gives white a chance to go wrong. If black can play Ke8- Kf7, defense might be possible. |
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Apr-05-04
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| tamar: Very interesting <Calli> Lasker must have an unpleasant jolt to face 5 Nc3 in his later game against Alekhine if he knew about their friendship--Alekhine vs Lasker, 1914
-- a game which he survived and won only by some wizardry. The reality that the Exchange was very much discussed makes Lasker's decision to use it in the crucial game against Capablanca more understandable. He wanted to make him uncomfortable as he had been against Alekhine, only on his own turf, the 5 d4
variation. |
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| Apr-05-04 |
| ArchBishop: <chessfected> I had the same expression for that horrendous move (24.) Or was that move more or less forced? I can't see that. |
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Apr-05-04
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| tamar: Quote from Garry on this game: "Dry, tedious play sickened Janowski--back in the match with Lasker (Paris 1909), he played the Exchange Variation very badly, and this had obviously been taken into account by Capablanca." He makes similar hastening the end blunders in that match, as in this shellacking...
Lasker vs Janowski, 1909 |
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| Aug-27-04 |
| Whitehat1963: Capa plays the opening of the day. |
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| Jan-26-06 |
| karlth: Romanovskij said that black was lost after 11. Rb1.
"Capablanca understood the position completely after 9. ... 0-0-0 and the rest was essentially just calculations and variations." "Capablanca's understanding of chess was complete. He sometimes blundered and made errors when calculating but his understanding was perfect." |
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May-14-07
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| micartouse: It's interesting that Capablanca let Black get rid of his Queenside weaknesses in order to attack. I guess he saw 0-0-0 combined with the pawns on a6 and c6 and felt he could just pop a pawn up there to b5 and pry it open. 11. Rb1! saves time. He can advance a4 and b4 in a single thrust. |
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| Apr-19-09 |
| adrk: this a scheme of attack in all similar positions!!
What a lesson!!! |
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