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Jose Raul Capablanca vs Kornel Havasi
Budapest (1928), Budapest HUN, rd 1, Sep-21
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Rosenthal Variation (D21)  ·  1-0

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White to move.
ANALYSIS [x]
Notes by Stockfish 9 v010218 (minimum 6s/ply)better is 8...Bd6 9.Qe2 Qc7 10.f4 e5 11.fxe5 Bxe5 12.Nf3 Bg4 = +0.28 (21 ply) ⩲ +0.98 (22 ply) 9...O-O 10.Rc1 Nbd7 11.Be2 Ne5 12.Kh1 Ba7 13.f4 Ng6 = +0.43 (23 ply) ± +1.63 (24 ply) 10...O-O 11.Bb3 Ne5 12.h3 Re8 13.Rc1 Bd7 14.Qe2 Rc8 ⩲ +1.32 (22 ply)+- +5.01 (22 ply)better is 13.Nh5 Rd8 14.b4 Qxb4 15.Nxf6 Qxc3 16.Nxd7 Bxd7 17.Rc1 +- +4.40 (22 ply) 13...Nb6 14.Nd4 Bb4 15.Nb3 Qh5 16.Qxh5+ Nxh5 17.Bxb6 +- +2.78 (24 ply)+- +5.67 (21 ply)better is 15.Nd5 Nxe4 16.Nh4+ Kg7 17.Qc2 Bxe3 18.Qxe4 Bf4 19.Nxf4 +- +5.26 (23 ply) 15...Qb4 16.Qd1 Bxe3 17.fxe3 Bxf5 18.Rxf5 Neg4 19.h3 Qb6 +- +3.15 (21 ply)+- +7.20 (22 ply) after 16.Bd4 Rg8 17.Nd5 Nxd5 18.Qg3+ Kf7 19.Qxe5 Rg6 20.Rc5 19.Nd5 Nfg4 20.h3 Qb5 21.Rc7+ Bg7 22.Nxg7 Rxg7 23.Qc3 +- +5.53 (22 ply) ⩲ +1.15 (25 ply) 21.Ne7 Bxe7 22.Rxe7 Qxb3 23.axb3 Bg4 24.Rd6 Rae8 25.Rc7 ⩲ +1.17 (26 ply)= +0.11 (23 ply)better is 22.Ne7 Bxe7 23.Rxe7 Nc6 24.Bd4 Nxd4 25.Rxd4 Rxa2 26.f3 ⩲ +0.58 (24 ply) 22...Bb4 23.Rd1 Ra6 24.Nh6 Rf8 25.Bd4 Bd6 26.Rxc8 Rxc8 = 0.00 (25 ply)+- +4.33 (23 ply)27...Rf8 28.Rxf8+ Nxf8 29.Nxb6 Rd2 30.Nd5 Ne6 31.Rxb7 +- +9.94 (24 ply)1-0

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Kibitzer's Corner
Dec-19-03  Lawrence: Junior 8 reckons that Capa had built up a nice lead and then blew it away by playing 19.Bb6 instead of 19.Nd5! And that Black should have played 22.....Bb4 with a good game, but instead he played 22.....Rxa2(?) and from there on his game went downhill. Does anybody agree, or is all this just a figment of Junior's imagination?
May-15-10  jmay: tried out some variations with nd5. looks very good
Mar-29-18
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  fredthebear: <Lawrence>
<And that Black should have played 22.....Bb4 with a good game, but instead he played 22.....Rxa2(?) ad from there on his game went downhill.>

It's understandible that Black played 22...Rxa2. For one thing, it obviously threatens back rank mate on the move. 23...Nc4 renews the mate threat. If 24.RxNc4 (so the battery still can interpose on the back rank), Black wins the exchange after 24...bxRc4. White declined RxN but had to make luft by 24.h3, which allowed 24...NxBb6. This capture leaves Black still ahead one piece. Thus, a sequence that grabs a pawn w/threat to mate, and reduces material while ahead in material is a line of play that most of us would gladly take most of the time. Black's moves had an aggressive purpose.

After the seemingly good 24...NxBb6, Black missed that his Rg8 was overworked. The Rg8 needs to defend the Bf8 and the g-file but cannot do both. The White rook suddenly takes over the initiative and it's curtains with swarming White knights. This had to be a sudden, painful turn of events for Black who thought he was doing well against the former world champion.

Jul-01-18  goser: The sacrifice was almost identical to Capablanca vs Bogoljubov, 1925. The only difference was that in this game the bishop was sacrificed after white played O-O and the black played ... a6.

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