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| FHBradley: <probably not as much as the fanatically motivated Alekhine> Your wording, I take it, is unnecessarily cautious. It is known, I believe, that Capablanca took a deep study of end games in preparing for his encounter with Lasker. Apart from that, he did very little or nothing to improve his chess. That, in a way, is tragic, but perhaps it is too much to ask of any human being that he or she should combine unique talent with hard work. Too bad. |
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Oct-07-09
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| timhortons: Jose Raul Capablanca beat Reginald Price Michell 2 to 0, with 1 draw. make it 3-, with 1 draw. i got one more game in my book which is not included in the database,Capablanca-Michell ramsgate 1929.it had an incomplete pgn since the book focus on mid game analysis of capa game. |
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| Oct-07-09 |
| TheFocus: <timhortons> You are correct. I find that for many players in CG, the complete record is not given, and many games are not included. Capablanca's complete record for tournaments, matches, and team matches is +327=259-42. A lot of Capablanca's early biographers (?): Reinfeld, Golembek, etc. do not give the Cuba Championship 1902 where Capa finished with five losses in 4th place, yet they WILL include his match against Corzo.
Of course, if we were to add the exhibition matches Capa played before the Corzo match, the score there being +13=2-3, and Capa's record would then be +340=261-45, which is probably his most accurate record. |
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| Oct-08-09 |
| James Demery: Out of approximately every 10 games 6 wins 4 draws and 1 loss. Not bad. Not bad at all. Kind of reminds me of myself. ;) |
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| Oct-08-09 |
| James Demery: Reading Reinfelds book he states that later on Capa practically abandoned 1e4. Does anyone know why? |
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| Oct-08-09 |
| Blunderdome: <James Demery: Out of approximately every 10 games 6 wins 4 draws and 1 loss.> Capa was so good he could get 11 results in just 10 games. |
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| Oct-08-09 |
| nescio: <James Demery: Reading Reinfelds book he states that later on Capa practically abandoned 1e4. Does anyone know why?>
You want to know why Reinfeld stated it or why Capablanca abondoned 1.e4? Why did Karpov practically abandon 1.e4 at roughly the same age? Possibly because 1.d4 is easier to play on postional feeling and intuition and requires less study than 1.e4. |
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| Oct-09-09 |
| James Demery: That was why I said approximately every 10 games. |
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| Oct-09-09 |
| TheFocus: Capablanca's 45 losses give him a loss percentage of only 6.96%; the lowest of any player ever. |
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| Oct-09-09 |
| WhiteRook48: it's 46 losses |
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| Oct-09-09 |
| TheFocus: <WhiteRook48> The record at the top of biography here is not complete nor accurate. Some of the losses depicted here are unofficial games. Some of Capablanca's official losses are not included in this database. Capablanca's complete tournament, match and team match score is +340=261-45, no more no less. |
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| Oct-10-09 |
| GrahamClayton: The October 2009 issue of "CHESS" has the following unusual Capablanca game: White: Capablanca
Black: Worthing
Simultaneous Exhbition, Hampstead, UK - 1930's?
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cd4 4. Nd4 e6 5. Nc3 Bc5 6. Be3 Qb6 
click for larger view7.Nc6 Draw offered - which Worthing promptly accepted. Why would Capa have offered a draw so early in the game? |
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| Oct-10-09 |
| maxi: <James Demery>, <nescio>, on Capa playing the Queen Pawn, not the King one. In Tartakower vs Capablanca, 1914 this point came up in the thread, which you may wish to check out. |
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| Oct-10-09 |
| drnooo: Probably the real test of any, and I do mean any chessplayer is random chess. Not fischer random, necessarily but any random opening set up. At that point they are all beginners again, and my hunch is this: Capa would beat them all, still. After that you can make up your own list, but would not be surprised if Fischer would only be in the lower top ten since his weakness was unclear positions. I wont bother with a list of my own in any order but Lasker would be up there since he did well in oddball positions, and Tal would thrive and after that twenty five names tumble in. But Capa stays at the top. |
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| Oct-10-09 |
| AnalyzeThis: This may surprise you, but I believe that Samuel Reshevsky would be the king of random chess. Fischer wrote that he had the opening knowledge of a class B player, and yet chessmetrics had him listed as a multitude of times as the number one player in the world. Basically, Reshevsky playing any other GM was like a GM going in cold to a game, against one who had memorized a bunch of book lines. So Random Chess to Reshevsky would be nothing new to him, but it would be a new experience to those who relied upon opening preparation. |
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Oct-11-09
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| HeMateMe: Sammy was certainly a fighter. But didn't Fischer also say that Lasker was a 'coffee house player'. all the KK match games were fixed, and that he could beat any female player with Knight odds? Love that Bob, but you have to take his comments with a grain of salt. |
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| Oct-11-09 |
| maxi: I have seen comments by GM's on Sammy's limited opening knowledge. Yet he was a great player. He, like Capa, was extremely precocious. I have a suspicion that he would be good at modifications of chess. Was he very good at fast chessChessgames Home Page? |
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Oct-27-09
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| grasser: Does "Capablanca" translate to "Whitehead" in english? |
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Oct-27-09
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| SugarDom: Capa = Cape
Blanca = White
White Cape
Zorro wearing white |
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Oct-27-09
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| parisattack: <AnalyzeThis: This may surprise you, but I believe that Samuel Reshevsky would be the king of random chess. Fischer wrote that he had the opening knowledge of a class B player, and yet chessmetrics had him listed as a multitude of times as the number one player in the world. > Chessmetrics shows him #1 in the late 30s, again early 40s. But I think his best games were in the 50s just before Fischer hit the scene. I suspect in a WC match against a Soviet of the era (Botvinnik, Smyslov, Bronstein) the combination of the Soviet machine and his tendency towards time-trouble would have been his undoing. His book, The Art of Positional Play, has quite a few of his own games and is a super read and study. Like, Capa he was a natural player, disdain for opening theory. |
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Oct-27-09
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| veigaman: <parisattack> agree
<drnoo0> <Capa would beat them all, still. After that you can make up your own list...> the most natural random chess player all the time are, in my opnion would have been: Morphy, capablanca, pillsbury and spassky |
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| Nov-13-09 |
| TheFocus: <HeMateMe> < AnalyzeThis > <Are there any Capa blitz games in print?> For years, Capablanca played in many speed matches and speed tournaments, but only two of his blitz games have survived. I checked The Unknown Capablanca by Hooper and Brandreth, and Capablanca by Rogellios and Capperas (these could be misspelled), and they have the same information. One mystery that has never been adequately addressed is why Capablanca played in so few chess events once he came to the U.S.? At Columbia University, for example, he took no part in any club tournaments or championships. While there, he took part only in three team matches,the C.Y.H.P. Team Championship, and the cable match with Oxford/Cambridge for a total of 7 games from 1906 - 1909. He also never took part in any team events or matches while a member of the Manhattan Chess Club during these same years, except for the speed events. He did conduct quite a few simultaneous exhibitions. But, still, the scarcity of games from this period is very noticeable. Anyway, here are two blitz games by Capablanca. If anyone else has any other blitz games, please share. Capablanca – Meyer, L.B.
Spanish Game
Final in rapid transit knock-out tournament, played at 20 seconds a move. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d4 Nxe4 6.d5 Ne7 7.Nxe5 b5 8.Bb3 Bb7 9.d6 Nxd6 10.Qxd6! 1 – 0. This rapid transit match was tied at 4 – 4. Winner was first to 5, draws not counting. 10 seconds a move. Capablanca – Rosenthal, Jacob
Spanish Game
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Be7 5.d3 d6 6.Re1 O-O 7.Nbd2 Bg4 8.c3 Kh8 9.Nf1 Nh5 10.h3 Bxf3 11.Qxf3 Nf6 12.g4 a6 13.Ba4 b5 14.Bc2 d5 15.Ng3 dxe4 16.dxe4 Qc8 17.Nf5 Bc5 18.Nxg7! Kxg7 19.Bh6+! Kg6 20.g5 Nh5 21.Qf5+ Qxf5 22.exf5 mate. |
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| Nov-19-09 |
| Whitehat1963: Happy birthday, Jose! |
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| Nov-19-09 |
| mojonera: happy birthday , capa THE BEST |
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Nov-19-09
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| HeMateMe: Some nice words about Capa from past chess greats:
Emanuel Lasker, world champion to who Capablanca defeated him in 1921 and with the one he faced in several opportunities, manifested: "I have known many chess players, but among them only one genius, Capablanca! His ideal was to win by means of maneuvers. The genius of Capablanca is revealed in his capacity of putting on approval the weak points of the opponent. The smallest weakness cannot escape to his good sight." The Great Russian Master Alexander Alekhine who was World Chess Champion when referring to the Cuban man said: "He is the greatest chess player of all the times. I don’t understand neither now, after so many years, how I have been able to win Capablanca in the match of 1927." Among other opinions of great masters and world champions is the one of the North American Robert Bobby Fischer when saying on Capablanca that he is among the greatest players, but not only for his ability in the end. His trick consisted on playing the simplest possible openings, and then he played with such brightness in the middle of the game that the end was resolved -although his opponent no always knew it -, before arriving at the end he commented. I think its a bad Spanish to english translation, someone didn't proofread this baby. I was surprised that AA had something nice to say aobut Capa. Alekhine never seemed to be all that high up there on morals and congeniality, and, of course, deprived the chess world of a superb rematch, he and Capa, after the '27 match. |
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