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Jan-03-04
 | | Calli: After the WC match in 1921 with Lasker, Capablanca married his first wife in 1922 and immediately started a family with Jose Jr. Then his father died suddenly in 1923, I believe. |
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| Dec-04-04 | | kostich in time: I would not denigrate Capas results between 1914 and 1919...he beat Kostich, who was (briefly) in the top ten in the world 5 to O, he wons two fairly strong tournaments, New York 1916 and New York 1918 by crushing margins, and won a good Hastings Tournament by a wide margin. What is really impressive,however, is the sure QUALITY of these games, Capablancas strategic fluency and positional vision. In fact, between 1914 and 1919, he only had one game in which he was even in an inferior position-this one. |
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| Dec-20-04 | | ughaibu: Calli: I suppose I meant "why he didn't resign after move 51". Capablanca had an overall negative score with the French according to this database. |
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| Dec-20-04 | | Whitehat1963: Opening of the day featured in this game -- the one loss in Capa's celebrated 10 years of dominance over world chess. |
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Jun-21-08
 | | RandomVisitor: 23...Rc4 might be better. |
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Jun-21-08
| | RandomVisitor: 23...Rc7 might be an improvement for Black. Who knows - it might have been good enough to extend Capablanca's winning streak. Position after 23.h5.
click for larger view Rybka2.3.2a <21-ply> 1. (-0.42): 23...Rc7 24.hxg6+ Rxg6 25.a3 Ne7 26.Kh2 Qa4 27.Qd3 Qc4 28.Qe3 Nd5 29.Qe4 Bc6 30.Qf3 |
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Jun-21-08
| | RandomVisitor: <Whitehat1963>Rybka sees the next few moves as 23.a4 Rc4 24.h5 Rxa4 and scores the initial position -0.82/17. |
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| Jun-21-08 | | Whitehat1963: <RV>, what does Rybka think of 23. a4 and 51. Qe8+? |
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Jun-22-08
| | RandomVisitor: <whitehat1963>51.Qe8+ should win for white after 51...Nf8 52.Qe5 Ng6 53.Qb8+. |
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| Aug-18-09 | | WhiteRook48: 51 Qxg4 is inferior |
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| Aug-31-09 | | WhiteRook48: upset!!! |
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| Feb-26-10 | | newzild: A great win by Chajes.
I have to say I fully sympathise with Capablanca's desire to play on in this position. In my opinion, far too many games end with premature draws and resignations. This is perhaps the most famous example:
R Byrne vs Fischer, 1963 |
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Feb-26-10
 | | Once: I am developing a bit of a liking for games with "unusual" material imbalances, such as queen against rook and minor piece or rook versus connected passed pawns. All too often us amateurs hate to lose material or make uneven trades, so we don't get into these kinds of positions as often as we probably should. Capa is one of my heroes, but you have to admit that Chajes played well here. As to whether Capa should have resigned earlier, I don't think so. There were ways for Chajes to go wrong and where there is life there is hope. My general rule of thumb about resignation is that if I am winning, my opponent should resign early so I can get home at a reasonable hour (usually from some dismal church hall in the middle of rural nowhere). But if my opponent is winning, I will play on until there is absolutely no chance of scraping a win or draw :-). |
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Feb-26-10
 | | Morten: Capablanca probably had a hard time accepting defeat against other than world champion level players. Another example is the game against Sämisch at Karlsbad 1929. Capa simply blundered in the opening and dropped a piece. But he played on to the bitter end - and actually came close to having chances of saving the game. |
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Feb-26-10
| | RandomVisitor: After 24.Rh3, black had a good move and a strong advantage, that was overlooked:
click for larger view Rybka 3:
<[-0.71] d=20 24...Ne7> 25.Qf3 gxh5 26.Rxh5 |
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Feb-26-10
 | | Garech: Awesome game! |
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| Feb-26-10 | | AnalyzeThis: <RandomVisitor: After 24.Rh3, black had a good move and a strong advantage, that was overlooked: 24.... Ne7 > Very interesting. I did have the impression that Capa could have beaten this attack off. |
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Feb-26-10
 | | Jimfromprovidence: It appears 51 Qxg4+ wins easily, forcing the exchange of rook for bishop. For example, 51...Kh7 52 Qh5 Rxf6 53 Bg5+.
click for larger viewOr 51...Kh8 52 Bg7+ Kg8 53 Qh5, etc.
click for larger viewWhite ends up ahead a queen vs. the loss of a bishop and a knight. |
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Feb-26-10
 | | whiteshark: Don't mess with Chajes. |
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| Feb-26-10 | | WhiteRook48: OMG that is the worst pun i have ever heard |
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| Feb-26-10 | | hstevens129: What's up with 6...Bxc3 ? Seems like it just strengthens White's center. Would love to hear someone's opinion on that. |
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| Feb-26-10 | | hstevens129: 8.Qg4! is really great [8...0-0? 9.Bxh6]. Black will now not only be incapable of castling, his King-side Rook is going to have a hard time getting out of there. |
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Feb-27-10
 | | Phony Benoni: <hstevens> After 6.Bd2:
click for larger view...Bxc3 is Black's usual move here, as it allows him to move his attacked knight to e4 on the next move. If 6...Ne4 immediately, then 7.Nxe4 wins a piece (7...dxe4 8.Bxb4, or 7...Bxd2+ 8.Nxd2). If black doesn't play 6...Bxc3, his knight must go to d7 or g8, and in either case 7.Qg4 has worked much better than in the game. Have you tried the Opening Explorer yet? Go to here: Opening Explorer
You'll see that 6...Bxc3 has yielded good results for White, but 6...Nfd7 has given White overwhelming results. Also 6...Bxc3 has been played 40 times as much as 6...Nfd7. Now, you can't use these statistics as "proof", but they do indicate that the vast majority of master players feel Black gets better chances with the knight in more active play on e4. If you feel differently, just study the games, develop some ideas on playing the resulting positions, then go out and shock the world! It won't be the first time established theory has been turned on its head. |
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Mar-01-10
 | | kevin86: normally,this ending is a very hard win-especially since it involvwa one of the best ever. Here,it's child's play (without Chuckie). |
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| Dec-18-11 | | fetonzio: Rxh6 is quite beautiful |
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sac: 27.Rxh6+