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Isidor Gunsberg vs Jose Raul Capablanca
St. Petersburg (1914), St. Petersburg RUE, rd 10, May-05
King's Gambit: Accepted. Bishop's Gambit Bogoljubow Variation (C33)  ·  0-1

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ANALYSIS [x]
Notes by Stockfish 9 v010218 (minimum 6s/ply) 6.Bb5+ Nfd7 = -0.33 (27 ply) ⩱ -1.13 (23 ply) 8...Bf5 9.Nd1 Ba5 10.c3 O-O 11.d3 Nc5 12.Bc2 Ne6 13.d4 ⩱ -1.25 (22 ply)better is 9.bxc3 Bg4 10.O-O Ng5 11.d4 Bxf3 12.gxf3 Ne6 13.Rd1 Nd7 = -0.32 (22 ply) ⩱ -0.88 (21 ply) after 9...a5 10.a4 g5 11.c4 Be6 12.Nd2 Nc5 13.h4 g4 14.Ba2 Qc7 better is 10.c4 Be6 11.cxd5 cxd5 12.Qb5+ Nc6 13.h4 Ng3 14.Rg1 h6 ⩱ -0.62 (20 ply) ⩱ -1.17 (22 ply) after 10...Nc5 11.h4 a5 12.a4 Bf5 13.Nf3 Nbd7 14.e6 fxe6 better is 12.c4 a5 13.cxd5 cxd5 14.Ba4+ Nc6 15.h4 Rg8 16.Qf2 gxh4 ⩱ -0.91 (20 ply) 12...a5 13.a4 Nd7 14.c4 Nc5 15.Bc3 Nxb3 16.cxb3 Qb6 ⩱ -1.45 (22 ply)= -0.49 (23 ply) 16...fxe6 17.Bxh8 Rxh8 18.c4 Ne5 19.O-O Qc5+ 20.Kh1 Qe3 ⩱ -1.21 (26 ply)= 0.00 (21 ply)better is 22.Bd4 b6 23.Rdh1 Bg6 24.Qd1 Kb7 25.Rh8 Ree8 26.Rxe8 = 0.00 (22 ply) ⩱ -0.62 (27 ply) 24.Re1 f3 25.gxf3 Bxf3 26.Qb4 Be4 27.Qxe4 dxe4 28.Bxf7 = -0.19 (26 ply)-+ -3.97 (25 ply) 25.R6h2 fxg2 26.Re1 Kb8 27.Rxg2 Bxg2 28.Qg3+ Ka8 29.Qxg2 -+ -3.91 (25 ply)-+ -7.45 (26 ply)27.Qxg1 Rf1+ 28.Kd2 Qf4+ 29.Qe3 Rf2+ 30.Kc3 Qxe3+ 31.Kb4 -+ mate-in-110-1

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Kibitzer's Corner
Nov-06-03  Whitehat1963: Does 24. gxf3 just prolong the agony?
Nov-06-03  Calli: Black plays Bxf3 and forks the Queen and rook at h1.
Sep-07-04  lao tzu: what is it about so many of capa's moves? they are usually so simple. u dont see them. and when he plays them u think to urself " of course!"
Sep-03-07  notyetagm: <lao tzu: what is it about so many of capa's moves? they are usually so simple. u dont see them. and when he plays them u think to urself " of course!">

Famous quote about Alekhine and Capablana said that you didn't know what Alekhine was going to do but you knew what Capablanca was going to do and could not stop it anyway. :-)

Dec-06-08  Ulhumbrus: <lao tzu: what is it about so many of capa's moves? they are usually so simple. u dont see them. and when he plays them u think to urself " of course!">

I will tell you. Capablanca did not choose just any old simple moves, but the right simple moves.

Moreover Capablanca would understand the reasons why the right simple moves were right.

A beginner would choose the wrong simple moves, and if he chanced to choose the right simple moves, he would not understand the reasons why they were right.

Incidentally Capablanca would disagree with you if you were to say that his simple looking moves were simple. He would say that they were of the most difficult nature.

Meaning perhaps that it was very difficult to understand - as Capablanca understood - the reasons why the right simple moves were right.

May-30-17
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  Jonathan Sarfati: <notyetagm's> quote has been attributed to George Alan Thomas
Jan-15-21
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  Honza Cervenka: 24.Rhd1 was a blunder. After 24.Re1 Qf8 25.Rg6 f3 26.gxf3 Bxf3 27.Qd4 Kb8 28.Qg7 white is still in the game.
Jan-15-21  Damenlaeuferbauer: I have to concede, that I did not know, that the immortal Cuban and the great Hungarian played a game against each other. I think, it was Alekhine, who wrote, that it is very risky to play the king's gambit against Capablanca; here we find one reason for this statement.
Jan-07-25  chvsanchez: According to Stockfish 17, Capablanca could have kept the upper hand with the exchange sacrifice 16...exf6!
Jan-08-25
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  beatgiant: <chvsanchez> Did you post on the wrong game? In this one Black doesn't have an e-pawn since move 2, so ...exf6 is never possible.
Jan-08-25  Cassandro: <beatgiant> Obviously what <chrysanchez> meant was 16...fxe6, which does indeed seem like a highly viable option.

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