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| Aug-05-08 | | 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
 | | 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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| Dec-09-09 | | Ratul: Beautiful positional play. Fantastic pawn structure, freeing the rooks for wing to wing play. |
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| Jan-11-10 | | sfm: Is that what you call a closed position? |
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| Aug-21-10 | | sevenseaman: Masterclass! |
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| Mar-10-11 | | chesschampion11: pretty nice fork at the final position! |
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| Nov-20-11 | | indoknight: Anatoli Karpov is the reincarnation of Jose Raul Capablanca (lol) |
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| Mar-06-12 | | David2009: Capablanca vs K Treybal, 1929: Here's an interactive link to the position at move 53 with White to play:
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The challenge is to win against Crafty Endgame Simulator without using an engine. Good luck! Link: http://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-t... |
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Mar-06-12
 | | Penguincw: Nice job by Capablanca for breaking through in a closed position. Again a small advantage (space) is turned into a win. |
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| May-06-12 | | tripuji: V - W |
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| May-06-12 | | Khapablanca: 35 moves without a single edchange. Is this the record? |
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| May-10-12 | | sorokahdeen: A game of amazing mastery.
This game definitely calls to mind Maroczy-Suechting, but considering some of Suechtings other games, one gets the impression that Treybal was stronger than suechting was. Still, the essential theme of massive, board-wide space advantage, leading to the black player's complete passivity and finally consignment to the last three ranks waiting for white to break through on the queenside is shared by both games. The thing that is amazing here is that the position is the result of black's not having found a workable chance to break open the position and free his game until it finally became actually impossible, at which point white's encirclement becomes complete and he can only wait for white to find a way into his position with a win of material. One amazing game. |
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| May-18-12 | | DanielBryant: <Khapablanca> There have been many endgames where that has happened. It's obviously more unusual in the middlegame. |
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| Nov-19-12 | | Cemoblanca: Pretty impressive 'Victory formation'! ;) Awesome play on both flanks! Wow! |
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| Feb-06-13 | | SirChrislov: For an identical strategy, also see:
Maroczy vs H Suechting, 1905 |
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| Feb-18-13 | | markgravitygood: This game is used by Bangiev in his Squares Stategy CDs as a "Model Game", following the d4-pawn Stategy in the direction of c5, on the Black Squares, striving to occupy the black squares. Black is protecting his d5-area, but the e5-area is under control of White. White has taken control of all the important black squares: a7; c7; e7; g7. Bangiev says "In order to be able to occupy the c7-square, White should be trying to get rid of the pawn on b7, giving us a motto for the d4-Strategy: occupy the black squares, attack on the white squares. |
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sac: 57.Rxd8+