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| sanyas: It should be pointed out that after 17. xf6 xf6 18.xd5 exd5 19. f5 c6 White can also try 20. d7!? xd7 21.xd7  fd8 22.f5 c4 23.xd5?! (otherwise White seems to have nothing) but this runs into 23...xd5! 24.e8+ xe8 25.xd5 xd4 26.f3 d2 and Black has much the better of it. |
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Dec-02-07
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| notyetagm: Game Collection: Grooming passed pawns for promotion Lasker vs Capablanca, 1921
Position after 68 ...  c5-d5 0-1:
click for larger viewBlack (Capablanca) supports his powerful Black d4-passed pawn with his d5-king, e4-knight, and a2-rook. "There is nothing left. The Black pawn will advance and White will have to give up his Knight for it."
-- Capablanca
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Feb-20-08
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| positionalgenius: <Square dance> Here is the game |
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Mar-02-08
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| Knight13: This is a freakin' strategic masterpiece. |
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Oct-17-08
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| An Englishman: Good Evening: I wonder if this was one of the games that helped Petrosian develop his concept of "pawn islands." After 40 moves, White has 3 to Black's one, and all of them are weak. |
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| Oct-17-08 |
| CapablancaFan: It's the type of endgame that should be studied with great care by any seriously aspiring chess player. Look at how Capa conducts the endgame. Every move has purpose, nothing wasted. He does not try to "force" the pawn down immediately, but only moving it when conditions warrant it. Capa's knight is like kryptonite to Lasker's position, dominating everything around it. Once it settles in on e4, the rest of the game plays itself out. |
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Oct-17-08
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| sleepyirv: I always meant to study Capablanca's moves in this game from his suggestion. Somehow I always forgot to come back to this very interesting endgame. |
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Oct-17-08
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| al wazir: Was 64...e5 *unquestionably* best? The maneuver Kc6-b5-c4 also seems to win. (White must be careful about playing Rb3 because of the fork.) |
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| Oct-17-08 |
| maxi: The justification for 9...h3 is the eventual threat of White playing xh7+ and if Black plays x then x since the Black Queen is not there to retake. |
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| Oct-17-08 |
| Superbull: wow, a faultless endgame by Capa |
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| Oct-17-08 |
| KingV93: wow. Here we have a Capablanca game where he wins by a purely technical exploitation of a better endgame position. How can anybody call his games dry and boring? shocking. What impresses me the most is the modesty displayed in his annotations. Truly humble. Appropriate that this is a game of the day during the Anand-Kramnik drawfest. |
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Oct-17-08
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| kevin86: The result is a little more one-sided than it looks as Lasker won zero games to four for his opponent. This was the second of these wins. |
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Oct-17-08
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| playground player: The lesson of this game is Patience. |
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| Oct-17-08 |
| mistreaver: it is sad that lasker,who was the longest holder of the world champ title, had to accept the match coz of money |
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| Dec-26-08 |
| GrahamClayton: <benjamin_lau>Good call, that might be it. I had forgotten about the potential of Lasker's IQP if left unchecked. Capablanca's understanding of when to break up pawn masses and when not to (both his and his opponents) is very instructive and impressive. Lasker's IQP really hurt him in this game since the main reason for having an IQP is for middlegame attacking reasons and Lasker doesn't really find an effective plan for doing this. Benjamin,
Iain Reeve analysed this game in the October 2008 issue of "CHESS" magazine.
Here is his comment after 14. 0-0
"The defining feature of this position is White's isolated queen pawn (IQP). A happy IQP is one which can thrust forward, exploding onto d5 with devastating effect. An unhappy IQP gets stuck where it is, bullied by bigger pieces and makes the whole position miserable." |
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Dec-26-08
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| chancho: <GrahamClayton> Benjamin Lau has not posted in Chessgames.Com since 2004. Maybe he still comes in from time to time, but who knows. |
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Dec-29-08
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| Fusilli: <Crispin: Capa is really the best Chessplayer at all times.> That's impossible to know, but I can certainly say that after going over Capa's brilliant games I invariably end up with a smile. Even more so if the game comes with Capa's own annotations. He makes it look so simple, a common denominator with Fischer. Classic simplicity, as they say. |
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| Dec-29-08 |
| slomarko: Capa won because Lasker was ill. everybody knows this. |
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Dec-29-08
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| Fusilli: <<slomarko>: Capa won because Lasker was ill. everybody knows this.> Certainly this wasn't a memorable Lasker game. Lasker had offered to simply resign the crown without a match but Capablanca wanted legitimacy. My comment referred to Capablanca in general. This game didn't demand much from him, but I still like his annotations. |
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Dec-29-08
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| blacksburg: <Was 64...e5 *unquestionably* best? The maneuver Kc6-b5-c4 also seems to win. (White must be careful about playing Rb3 because of the fork.) ...e5 is definitely faster. with the king manouevre, black needs at least 6 moves to capture white's d pawn, move his king out of the way, and advance his pawn, also exposes his king to random annoying checks. after ...e5, black gets a passed pawn on the next move, and can advance it immediately, with no counterplay. the winning idea here is not to win the d-pawn. black already has a winning position and does not need another pawn, he simply needs to advance in the center. |
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| Aug-17-09 |
| Cercatore: Why Lasker don't do this move?
45: Rxb3 |
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Aug-17-09
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| Benzol: 45.Rxb3 Nxd4+ 46.Kd3 Nxb3 regaining the Rook with an extra pawn to boot. |
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| Aug-17-09 |
| Cercatore: Is true. |
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Aug-17-09
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| Benzol: <Cercatore> Welcome to the site btw. :) |
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| Oct-24-09 |
| rjsolcruz: 88 years later, another Raul, 11 year old Raul Sol Cruz Jr. played these lines also as Black, vs GM Eugene Torre in a training game. But the modern day Raul, nicknamed Rhal, continued with 7... b6 instead of the original Raul's 7... c5. |
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