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Jose Raul Capablanca vs Eurico Penteado
"Eurico! I Have Found It!" (game of the day Sep-21-2019)
Simul (1927) (exhibition), Sao Paulo BRA, Aug-??
Spanish Game: Closed. Averbakh Variation (C87)  ·  0-1

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Sep-21-19
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  al wazir: White had a decent game for a while. I thought he should have played 24. Qxg5. After 24...hxg5 25. Bxf5 gxf6 26. Nh5, white may even be a little better.
Sep-21-19
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  An Englishman: Good Evening: Was 25...Rc5 sound?! If yes, it ranks among the most cunning traps I've ever seen, esp. coming from a player in a simul v. Capablanca.
Sep-21-19  saturn2: 29. Qg4 and white seems ok with the plus piece
Sep-21-19  backrank: Totally strange to see Capa lose like this :-/
Sep-21-19  Rumor: White just needed to interpose 29. Bxf7+ before 30. Qxb7, and he’s comfortably winning.
Sep-21-19  cunctatorg: Why to resign just from shame?
Nope! 33. Rxd1 Qxf3 34. Kg1 Bc5! 35. Rd4 Bxd4#
Sep-21-19  goodevans: After he'd won the piece Capa really messed up in the face of a counterattack that really shouldn't have succeeded.

Maybe his energies were concentrated on other boards in the simul, but after 28.Qxd7 just about every move he made was substandard.

Sep-21-19  Ironmanth: Nifty game! Thanks, chessgames. Y'all have a great final Summer weekend!
Sep-21-19
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  OhioChessFan: Several good suggestions for White's 29th move already mentioned, but I'd have played Qf5 even in blitz.

Nice pun, although "Have" is superfluous.

Sep-21-19  RandomVisitor: White's final mistake was 31.Kh1, where instead 31.Kg2 keeps the advantage.
Sep-21-19  spazzky: 31.Kg2 Qd2+ 32.Re2 Qxd1 33.Qxa6 Qd4 34.Qc6 Rb8 35.Nf5 Qa7 36.a6 g6 37.Ne3 Rb6 38.Qxc4 Rxa6
Sep-21-19  OrangeTulip: for all these losses of Lasker and Capablanca and other icons in simuls applies that they let win one ore two participants out of courtacy of because they wanted to be invited again.
Sep-21-19
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  Breunor: <Was 25 Rc5 sound?>

No.

Stockfish:

1) +3.45 (24 ply) 26.Bxf6 Qxf6 27.Rxc5 dxc5 28.Qxd7 Re7 29.Qd2 Qd4+ 30.Qxd4 cxd4 31.Rd1 Rd7 32.Bd5 Bb4 33.Nf5 Bxa5 34.Nxd4 g6 35.Kg2 Kg7 36.f5 g5 37.f4 gxf4 38.Kf3 Kf8 39.Rc1 Bc7 40.Ne2 Be5 41.Rc8+ Ke7

Instead, we have:

1) +0.18 (19 ply) 25...Red8 26.Red1 d5 27.Bxf6 Qxf6 28.Rxc8 Bxc8 29.f5 d4 30.Kg2 d3 31.Qc3 Qxc3 32.bxc3 Bd6 33.Rxd3 Bc7 34.Rxd8+ Bxd8 35.f4 Bxa5 36.Ne2 b5 37.Kf3 Bd7 38.Ke3 Bb6+ 39.Kd3

So Rc5 should have been the losing move. Its incredible to see perhaps the most renowned figure in chess history for simple soundness to lose after this (or maybe as OrageTulip implies a loss on purpose?).

On 29 Bxf7 is best:

1) +5.62 (24 ply) 29.Bxf7+ Kh8 30.Qxb7 Qd4+ 31.Kh1 Rd7 32.Qb3 Qd2 33.Rf1 Qxf4 34.Bd5 Bd6 35.Qb6 Qh4 36.Kg2 Qf6 37.f4 Bc7 38.Qb7 Qd8 39.Qxa6 Bxa5 40.Qe2 Bc7 41.Qh5 Rd6 42.Ra1 Rb6 43.b3

As Randomvisitor said, Capa was still well ahead until 31 Kh1??

Stockfish agrees with Spazzky's line above, evaluating white at +2.

1) +2.04 (22 ply) 31.Kg2 Qd2+ 32.Re2 Qxd1 33.Qxa6 Qd4 34.Qc6 Rb8 35.Nf5 Qa7 36.a6 g6 37.Ne3 Rb6 38.Qxc4 Rxa6 39.Qc8 Ra1 40.Kh3 Qd4 41.f5 Qd3 42.Qc2 Qd6 43.Qc4 h5 44.fxg6 Qxg6 45.b4 Qe6+ 46.Qxe6 fxe6

Sep-21-19
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  FSR: Ouch. I certainly wasn't expecting Capa to lose. But such things happen in simuls.
Sep-21-19  spingo: I would like to have seen Penteado's hair.
Mar-23-22  Kruger: This match was Capablanca's only defeat in his time in Sao Paulo. It was played on 08/14/1927, in the first simultaneous game in Brazil, and it was played against 20 boards, with a result +19 - 1.

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