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Jul-30-08
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| Ulhumbrus: Treybal may have thought that there was no way for White to break through, but there was, the move 55 Ba6! following 54 Na5. |
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| Aug-05-08 |
| thathwamasi: haha.. my friend called the last Nxc6 move as "family fork".... |
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| Aug-05-08 |
| andrewjsacks: Dear WhiteHat1963: In lifetime winning percentages, the caliber of the opposition must be factored in. |
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Aug-05-08
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| Boomie: <Gilmoy: <micartouse: ... "Alekhine's Gun" ... why the technique isn't called "Capablanca's Gun"?>> Perhaps this position from Alekhine vs Capablanca, 1914 deserves to be called Capa's Cannon. 
click for larger viewAmusing that he sprung this on Alekhine. Should we call it disarming? |
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Aug-05-08
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| al wazir: Even the great Capablanca took a little while to find the right winning tactic (Nf3-d2-b3-a5). And what if black had stationed his  on e7? (There would have been time to do it if he hadn't shuttled the off into the far corner.) How would Capa have won then? |
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Aug-05-08
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| Gilmoy: <1914>
Capablanca: Alas, she is between the two rooks -- I think she should rather be behind them both, no?Alekhine: To be sure -- but that demands at least one more tempo, to lift the rearmost rook. Capablanca: And I am quite unlikely to win one tempo more against you, while still keeping both Queens on the board. Alekhine: In this game, I certainly hope not, else I've stranded her! In general, yes, perhaps one could only hope to catch a fish with this idea. Capablanca: Perhaps as a way to punish a lack of, mmm, urgency in the other's opening? Alekhine: Or a crisis of confidence in the middle game. Capablanca: <exeunt stage left>
Alekhine: <exeunt stage right> <circa. mid-1920s> Capablanca: Here, fish ... <circa. early 1930s> Alekhine: Here, fish ... |
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Aug-05-08
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| whiteshark: Looks like a <VW> pawn structure. |
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Aug-05-08
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| The Long Diagonal: Yep, das Auto. The designer of the logo must have been a keen chess player and a Capablanca fan. Actually, I was slightly surprised to see that nobody had made this joke/pun before, but maybe it's because it's a bit too obvious. |
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| Aug-05-08 |
| Samagonka: This looks like World War III! |
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| Aug-05-08 |
| arnaud1959: I love 37.h6+. It's a very instructive move. As soon as the  -side is opened white closes the -side preventing black from having counterplay. |
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Aug-05-08
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| Travis Bickle: Beautiful ending by Capa!! |
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| Aug-05-08 |
| falcon27: Instructive game. |
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Aug-05-08
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| Ulhumbrus: <al wazir: Even the great Capablanca took a little while to find the right winning tactic (Nf3-d2-b3-a5).
And what if black had stationed his on e7? (There would have been time to do it if he hadn't shuttled the off into the far corner.) How would Capa have won then?> It may be that in the position before Black moves the King away from e7, on other words after 42 Ra7, Black is on the way to zugzwang. It may be that any move worsens the emplacement of a piece for at least one purpose. Thus if Black does not move the King ( and so tries to avoid the threat of Ba6 and Na5) but moves something else, what else shall he move? Moving the B to e8 pins the b7 pawn and moving the Rd8 to f8 and playing ..Nd8 exposes the Black Q to the threat of Rh2-h1-a1-a5 followed by Qa3, Ra8, Rxa8 and Ra8 trapping Black's Q. It may be that Treybal has to concede something no matter which choice he makes. |
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Aug-05-08
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| kevin86: The pawns are shaped like a "V",therefore the pun.
There is a recent game with Bacrot doing the honors-in fact,he had something like eight pawns vs three at one point. In the controversy-Alekhine vs Capablanca,I would prefer AA,but of course,Capa was steadier and less prone to horrible blunders. |
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Aug-05-08
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| Once: An astonishing game, and a great pleasure to play through. I tried to find an alternative formation for black that might build a fortress - say bishop on c8 and knight on d8 to double up the defence of the weak b7 pawn. But then Capa would probably have switched his attack to the eighth rank with moves like Ra8, Rb8 and Raa8. With such limited space to arrange his pieces, however black defends white is able to redirect the attack to another weak point. |
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| Aug-05-08 |
| akapovsky: capablanca is a master of pawn play able to play and lock positions and its clear that capablanca's advantage in space was dicisive |
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| Aug-05-08 |
| CapablancaFan: <The Long Diagonal>
<Actually, I was slightly surprised to see that nobody had made this joke/pun before, but maybe it's because it's a bit too obvious.> Look at my comment on page 3. |
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Aug-05-08
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| Check It Out: In addition to the great pawn formation, what struck me was Capablanca switching his attack back and forth from king-side to queen-side and back again, keeping his opponent off balance and unsure of where the breakthrough would occur. Terrific feinting. |
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| Aug-06-08 |
| akapovsky: althought the attack on the h file looked promesing I doubt its succes so capablanca swicthed to the a file and althought it takes sometime to relocate white has space advantage while black is tied down and victory for white is assured |
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| Aug-06-08 |
| RookFile: Apparently, Capa could also have played 55. Nxb7 winning, but his 55. Ba6 was fine. The neat thing about 55. Nxb7 is 55... Nxb7 56. Ba6 Rc7 57. Bxb7 Rxb7 58. Ra8 and black's queen has no place to go. 
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| Sep-04-08 |
| bunbun: exeunt is 'they exit', exit is 'he/she exits' |
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| Jan-07-09 |
| WhiteRook48: there was a V from 39. b6!! Amazingly, it's still there in the final position!! |
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| Feb-07-09 |
| Kuraudo: Why did Black hang on so long? As somebody mentioned before, he had nothing left to play after move 30. I would have resigned after facing the tripled a-file after move 46. Black played 57 times--only once did he move to White's half of the board. |
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| Feb-24-09 |
| WhiteRook48: all the pawns were remaining for the first 35 moves! |
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| Aug-26-09 |
| WhiteRook48: still well from this kind of position |
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sac: 57.Rxd8+
