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Jose Raul Capablanca vs Guillermo Vassaux
Buenos Aires Olympiad qual-4 (1939), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 2, Aug-26
Semi-Slav Defense: Semi-Meran Variation (D47)  ·  1-0

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ANALYSIS [x]
Notes by Stockfish 9 v010218 (minimum 6s/ply)better is 7...b5 8.Be2 Bb7 9.O-O Be7 10.a3 a5 11.b3 O-O 12.Bb2 = -0.09 (36 ply) ⩲ +0.66 (21 ply) after 8.a3 Ba5 9.O-O O-O 10.Qc2 c5 11.dxc5 Bxc3 12.Qxc3 Nxc5 10...Nxe5 11.dxe5 Nd7 12.f4 f5 13.exf6 Nxf6 14.Bd2 a5 = +0.09 (21 ply) ⩲ +0.90 (20 ply)better is 11...cxd4 12.exd4 Qd6 13.Nb5 Qb6 14.Be3 Nd5 15.Bxd5 exd5 = +0.49 (19 ply)better is 12.Bd3 Bd7 13.a3 Bxc3 14.bxc3 Ba4 15.Bd2 Rad8 16.c4 Bc6 ⩲ +1.02 (19 ply)= +0.27 (19 ply) after 12...Bd7 13.Qf3 cxd4 14.exd4 Qd6 15.a3 Ba5 16.Qd3 Rac8 better is 13...b6 14.Rac1 Nxc3 15.bxc3 Ba3 16.Rcd1 Ne4 17.Bc2 f5 = +0.03 (19 ply) ⩲ +0.76 (20 ply)better is 15.Bc2 Ndf6 16.Be1 b6 17.a4 Bb7 18.a5 Rad8 19.Bd3 Qc7 ⩲ +0.96 (20 ply)better is 15...b6 16.c4 Nc7 17.Bc2 Bb7 18.dxc5 Nxc5 19.Bb4 N7a6 = +0.41 (20 ply) ⩲ +1.13 (21 ply) 17...a5 18.g4 g6 19.gxf5 gxf5 20.Ra2 Kh8 21.Rg2 b6 22.Qe2 ⩲ +0.57 (19 ply) 18.Rf3 Ndf6 19.Rh3 Kg8 20.a5 Bd7 21.Qe2 b5 22.c4 cxd4 ⩲ +1.37 (18 ply)= +0.41 (19 ply) 19...Qe8 20.gxf5 exf5 21.Ra2 Bd7 22.a5 Ng4 23.Rg2 Nxe5 = +0.24 (19 ply) ⩲ +1.09 (17 ply) after 20.c4 Bc6 21.gxf5 exf5 22.Ra2 Qe8 23.Bd1 cxd4 24.exd4 21.h3 Rc8 22.Rb1 Qd6 23.c4 Nd7 24.Rbf1 Qc7 25.Bc2 Bg6 ⩲ +0.52 (18 ply) 21...fxg4 22.Qxe4 gxh3 23.Bxe6 Bg6 24.f5 Nxe4 25.Bxe7 ⩱ -0.71 (23 ply)= +0.32 (19 ply) 23.Ra2 Rc8 24.Be1 Bh5 25.Rg2 g6 26.c4 Rc7 27.d5 Rg7 = +0.35 (19 ply) 23...Nd7 24.Bg3 Nxe5 25.fxe5 Qb6 26.Bd5 Qg6 27.Bxb7 Rb8 ⩱ -0.57 (21 ply)= +0.30 (22 ply) after 24.Qxd4 Qa6 25.Qb4 Bh5 26.Bc4 Qb6 27.Bxf6 Nxf6 28.Rd4 24...Ng4 25.Rf1 Bh5 26.Be1 Nxe5 27.fxe5 Qg6+ 28.Kh1 f4 = -0.03 (23 ply) ⩲ +1.38 (20 ply) 26.Rf1 Rd8 27.Qe3 Qxa4 28.Bg5 Qa6 29.d5 Rxd5 30.Bxf6+ ⩲ +1.24 (19 ply)= +0.08 (24 ply) 27...Qe7 28.Bxf5 Nh5 29.Qe3 Nf4 30.Qxf4 Rxf5 31.Qe3 = +0.11 (26 ply)+- mate-in-31-0

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Oct-07-08  johnlspouge: Toga II 1.3.1 says 26...Qe7 would led to an even position. In retrospect, 26...Nxg5 looks as though Black is trying to help White to mate.
Oct-07-08  Marmot PFL: Black really played it out to mate?
Oct-07-08  Ladolcevita: Hey,Marmot,your icon is cute
Oct-07-08
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  sleepyirv: Heh, keep your pawns close to the king.
A rather easy mate in three.
Oct-07-08  YetAnotherAmateur: <WhiteStar>: I'm no expert, but I believe 17. a4 was meant to stop any exploiting of b5 by black.
Oct-07-08  beenthere240: 27. Qh7#! wins on the spot -- the flying lady ploy.
Oct-07-08  JG27Pyth: 27...Qe7 is more interesting than 27...Ne4? IMO. I think it holds on a bit longer.
Oct-07-08  JG27Pyth: JohnLspouge: <Toga II 1.3.1 says 26...Qe7 would led to an even position. In retrospect, 26...Nxg5 looks as though Black is trying to help White to mate.>

I swear you hadn't posted this yet when I mentioned Qe7.

Oct-07-08  johnlspouge: < <JG27Pyth> wrote: JohnLspouge: <Toga II 1.3.1 says 26...Qe7 [snip] > I swear you hadn't posted this yet when I mentioned Qe7.>

Have another cup of coffee, <JG27Pyth>. You'll feel better soon :)

Oct-07-08  Zzyw: Main characteristic of position: Black's weak kingside. First candidate move: RxP+, which leads to a simple forced mate. Little easy for a tuesday, I can usually not solve those at first glance.
Oct-07-08
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  playground player: Oh, boy! I played those last couple of moves just like Capablanca!
Oct-07-08  Woody Wood Pusher: It's a pity there wasn't tougher opposition around in Capa's time (or should that be tougher willing opposition eh' Alekhine you runner-roo!), he really chewed this guy up.
Oct-07-08  kevin86: A very easy mate in three beginning with a rook sacrifice;pretty easy for Tuesday-or ARE there two Mondays this week? lol
Oct-07-08  A.G. Argent: <An Englishman>< If you're going to let your opponent build up an overwhelming position like this, at least force him or her to sacrifice something to get here.> Of course that's true but with Capa's position after 21.Rh3, solidifying beginnings of a full blown assault right down the throat of this Vassaux fella's King, maybe the guy got a bit rattled. I mean, look at his record, incomplete or not. Hardly a stellar one, so he mighta known he was more than a bit out of his league and what you might call toast. By '39, Capablanca's reputation must have been extremely imposing for someone like this guy. I mean, as Reti said, chess was the Cuban's mother tongue.
Oct-07-08  Simonkaser: Easy... got it in ... 5,19 seconds !!
Oct-07-08  DrWeevil: Wow.. 2 out of 2 so far... I've usually slipped up already by now! Could be a good week....
Oct-07-08  Zenoglio: I got the entire mating net in a minute or so. Good old Capablanca never lets us down with those beautiful mating nets.
Oct-07-08  patzer2: For today's Tuesday puzzle, White has mate-in-three starting with 28. Rxh7+!
Oct-07-08  DarthStapler: Got it easily
Oct-07-08
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  Bishoprick: Thought that chess "problems," were not supposed to start with a check. . .
Oct-07-08  Kaspablanca: was this the last Capa game?
Oct-07-08  johnlspouge: Hi, <A.G. Argent>. I agree. If I had been Vassaux, I would have headed off to the pub to enjoy myself rather than waste Capa's time. You have to admire Vassaux's gumption.

Just look at the poor guy's record. He manages one recorded draw, against Ernesto Rotunno. It then takes a really determined search through Rotunno's record to find a win against <anyone>.

Oct-07-08  johnlspouge: < <Kaspablanca> wrote: was this the last Capa game?>

In the chessgames.com record, Capablanca's last recorded game was a simultaneous game against one J Corzo, who is best remembered as the Cuban champion the young prodigy Capablanca beat, and in Capablanca's record, the second opponent after his younger brother, E Corzo.

Truly, as TS Eliot said:

"The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

Oct-07-08  Rodrigo Gutierrez: Yeah, this really was more of a Monday puzzle :)
Feb-26-11  Ulhumbrus: The move 18 g4 will serve to open the a2-g8 diagonal for White's King's Bishop by the exchange 22 gxf5 exf5, after which White's King's Bishop will assist the attack by controlling the f7 and g8 squares around Black's King and depriving Black's King of the use of those squares as flight squares.
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