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Jose Raul Capablanca vs Louis Jacob Wolff
Casual game (1906), New York, NY USA
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense. Botvinnik Variation (D60)  ·  0-1

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Kibitzer's Corner
Jun-05-15
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  MissScarlett: The circumstances of this game are unclear. Winter's book on Capablanca has:

<Only a handful of games from Capablanca's early years in the United States have survived, and nearly all were published in <The Unknown Capablanca>. One further score can be added here. It is taken from page 250 of the November 1970 issue of <Medical Newsmagazine>, which reproduces Capablanca's own record of the game written on a Manhattan Chess Club score sheet. [...]

It would be interesting to know why Capablanca kept the score of this game, and how it reached the <Medical Newsmagazine>.>

Jun-05-15  TheFocus: And Capablanca again blunders and loses again one of the Wolff pack.
Jun-05-15
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  keypusher: <It would be interesting to know why Capablanca kept the score of this game, and how it reached the <Medical Newsmagazine>.>

Given the quality of the game and source, perhaps an experiment on the effect of alcohol consumption on chess play? It's obvious that Capablanca was drunk.

Jun-05-15
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  MissScarlett: Hmmm.....I have an alternative theory. I surmise that Wolff kept the score, gifted to him by Capa, as a memento. It wouldn't surprise me if it turned out that Wolff passed away not long before the score surfaced in such queer fashion.

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