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| Oct-28-04 | | Apocalypse79: Lasker loses too many pawns.. capa gains advantage. |
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| Oct-28-04 | | iron maiden: This tournament was a big success for Capablanca--not only because he won it comfortably over the younger generation, but also--for the first time in his career--he came ahead of Lasker. |
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| Dec-02-04 | | capanegra: I read that Lasker was very irritated at Capablanca's late arrival for their game in Moscow 1936, so after making his first move, he shrouded Capa in a cloud of cigar smoke. Nice zugzwang at move 39. |
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| Dec-02-04 | | euripides: Capablanca did not often play the Sicilian, but here he plays it with complete assurance - had anyone shown the full strength of ...e5 followed by d5 in the Scheveningen formation before ?
At the end, White can play 55 a6. Then Black has 55 ...c3 and if 56 Qxc3 Qf1+ wins the a pawn; otherwise White has to cope with the threat of ...Qd2+ followed by ...c2+ and will probably lose the a pawn on the way e.g. 56 Qb3 Qd2+ 57 Kb1 c2+ 58 Qxc2 Qxa5. |
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| Dec-02-04 | | Whitehat1963: Perhaps the cigar smoke in the face provided extra motivation for Capablanca! |
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| Sep-08-05 | | paladin at large: Quoting Capablanca annotations provides an insight into his foresight and style: "By playing 22. Ra8 Black could have forced White to play 23. Ng3, but Black wants White, if possible, to keep his knight at h5 since he believes that later on the piece will be out of play and that White will then have to lose time bringing it back." And later:
Regarding 38. Qc3: "This move costs the game. It was necessary to play 38. Ke1, after which we would perhaps have 38.....h6 39. b3 axb3 40. cxb3 Bf7 41. Qg4 Qf8 42. b4, and although Black has the advantage it is not easy to see how he can win." After move 39: "White is in Zugzwang".
42.......Qb1 "The decisive blow. Black now wins a second pawn, and with it the game." |
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Oct-28-05
 | | Mateo: According to Panov, 18. Kh1 is better; and according to Capablanca, Lasker should have played 18. c3 and 19. a3. |
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Oct-28-05
| | Mateo: According to Panov, Lasker defended well until his 38th move. But 34. Qb4? loses. Capablanca could have played 34... Qb6 (best) 35. Ke2 Bc4 36. Kf3 Qd8! (theatening 36... Qd1-h5)  . If 37. Kg3 g6 ; if 37. Qe1 Qd4 38. c3 (38. Qc1 e4 39. Kg3 e3 40. Nf4 Qd2 ) Bd5 39. Kg3 Qd3 ; if 37. g4 Qd1 38. Kg3 Qg1 39. Kf3 Bd5 . |
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Oct-28-05
| | Mateo: 36... Qb7 (better than 36... Qa8 actually played) wins. 37. Kg3 (37. Kf2 Qb6 38. Kf3 Qd8 ) Qf7 38. b3 ab 39. cb Be2 . |
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Oct-28-05
| | Mateo: According to Panov, 38. Ke1 with chances to draw and he quotes Capablanca's variation 38. Ke1 h6 39. b3 ab 40. cb Bf7 41. Qg4 Qf8 42. b4 Bd5. But after 39. b3, better seems 39... Bf7! 40. Ng3 (40. Qg4 Bh5 41. Qh5 b4!! ) ab 41. cb Qd3 . |
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| Nov-10-05 | | paladin at large: <Mateo> As you note, Capablanca has the advantage in all of the lines cited above. I don't know what Lasker's best move would have been at move 34. - did Panov have a suggestion? - but due to the fact that Capa's bishop is better placed than Lasker's knight and Lasker's king is exposed, Lasker has a hard time finding good moves. Whether the clock was ticking fast or a cloud of cigar smoke wafted across the board, Capa seemed to prefer checking at the 34. ...Qa7+ and 36. ...Qa8+ squares in order to get with tempo to 37....Qd8 as the most prudent course. Whether this was by intuition or deeper calculation, I don't believe we will ever know from the annotations. |
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Nov-10-05
| | Mateo: <paladin at large> <I don't know what Lasker's best move would have been at move 34. - did Panov have a suggestion?> Panov had no suggestion here. I think White should try to find a safe place for his King, because like you said <Lasker's king is exposed>. So 34. Kg1 desearves, in my opinion, consideration. For instance, 34. Kg1 Qa7 35. Kh1. I agree with you to say that Black's bishop is stronger than White's Knight, but there is no forced win like in the game. |
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| Nov-10-05 | | paladin at large: <Mateo> 35. Kh1 is problematical as after the black queen goes to d7 and the black bishop to e4, threatening both the white f-pawn and mate on d1. If white moves his knight to g3 to protect the f-pawn, black's bishop takes c2. Apart from this, Lasker may have instinctively felt he would need his king in the center to have a chance, also to head off the passed black pawn. |
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Nov-11-05
| | Mateo: <paladin at large> So let's see in practical terms your idea after 34. Kg1 Qa7 35. Kh1 Qd7. White plays 36. h3 and the Bishop canno go to e4, as now the White Queen can capture it, without beeing afraid by the mate, as the white King has the h2 square. Black need to find something else. I really think Lasker should have retreat with his king to the h file(with 34. Kg1, or maybe 34. h3, with the idea 34... Qa7 35. Kg3 Qe3 36. Kh2) to get chances to survive. |
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| Nov-11-05 | | paladin at large: <Mateo> Perhaps you are right, although I am not convinced White's longterm prospects are improved by having the king on h1. Capablanca preferred the bishop in this kind of ending with pawns on both sides of the board and the protected passed pawn gains in importance if the queens come off. It seems Lasker felt he needed counterplay above all, prompting 34. Qb4 and pushing his a-pawn later. My earlier comment about possible time pressure for Capablanca seems off the mark, as I now see from the annotations that Capa thought for half an hour before playing 53.....Qf2. He wrote in comment of this move that "Black had a very strong continuation, beginning with 53.....e4, which in fact leads to a quick win. However, I rejected it, since I was afraid of miscalculating in the complicated variations." He then gave as a main variation a line which allowed Lasker to queen his pawn, but which left him (Lasker) with no defense. Capa added: "Lasker considered 54. Qa3 to be the decisive mistake, but in fact his position was already hopeless." (Sources - Winter and Chernev)
A very enjoyable and absorbing ending. |
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| Apr-12-06 | | capanegra: <Capa added: "Lasker considered 54. Qa3 to be the decisive mistake, but in fact his position was already hopeless.">
Yes, but it is true that 54.Qa3 wasn't the best move, and neither was 54.Qd2 as Lasker recommended later due to 54…Qc5! According to Tal, the most resistant continuation was 54.Qxc4!, but even after that Black should win: 54…Qe1+ 55.Kc2 Qxa5 56.Qc8+ Kh7 57.Qf5+ Kg8 58.Qe6+ Kf8 59.Qd6+ Ke8 60.Qe6+ Kd8 61.Qg8+ Ke7 62.Qxg7+ Ke6 63.Qg8+ Kd6 64.Qf8+ Kd5 65.Qxf6 Qa4+ with benefit. |
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| Aug-20-06 | | positionalgenius: Capablanca plays the sicilian,quite rare. |
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| Aug-20-06 | | szunzein: He wanted to surprise Lasker this time; and it worked! |
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| Aug-20-06 | | Kean: i cant remember a sicilian played by capa, and he hits hard on d5. ppl up there is right, the kt on h5 arrived too late to the final fight nh5-g3-f1-e3-c4. a very instructive game, as always with capablanca |
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| Aug-21-06 | | CapablancaFan: <positionalgenius> I are correct, the Sicilian wasn't a big part of Capa's opening weapons. He must have wanted to surprise Lasker, when the latter was probably expecting 1...e5 or something. |
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| Aug-21-06 | | positionalgenius: <CapablancaFan>Yes,he caught Lasker by surprise indeed! |
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| Oct-08-06 | | James Demery: Is it true that Capa only played the Sicilian 2 times? I read somewhere that Capa said the Sicilian was ,as he put it,"full of holes". I wonder what he meant by that? It seems to be Blacks most effective response to 1.e4. |
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| Oct-08-06 | | James Demery: I found this game and a game against Keres in `37 in which Capa played the Sicilian. 1 win and 1 draw. Perhaps he didn`t like the Sicilian because it requires a great deal of study. |
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| Oct-09-06 | | Pawn Ambush: <Perhaps he didn`t like the Sicilian because it requires a great deal of study. JD> In this game Capa is playing the then rarely played Siclian by instinct againgst Lasker no less, and yet its a text book example note the press he puts on e4 all standard Siclian strategy today. He also played the Alekhine really well maybe he didn't like the name. I wonder what would happen if he DID STUDY. |
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| Oct-27-06 | | who: Capablanca sicilians
F Bohatirchuk vs Capablanca, 1925,
L Merenyi vs Capablanca, 1928,
Keres vs Capablanca, 1937, Milner-Barry vs Capablanca, 1939, and this game according to the database. |
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