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Jose Raul Capablanca vs Emanuel Lasker
Lasker - Capablanca World Championship Match (1921), Havana CUB, rd 7, Apr-02
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense. Main Line (D63)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Nov-12-04  Bobak Zahmat: Nice game of Queen's Gambit Declined. Very equal play.
Mar-02-08  Knight13: Black plays ...c6 and then ...c5. Kind of awkward.
Aug-19-10  mrmietus: 9. ... Qa5
was a nice move for me. It led to equality and although, later, I realised that it is as good or maybe beter than Cambridge Springs variation.

Capa notes as good as always. I smiled when he said that taking with the pawn could be unclear because in blitz I always take with the pawn and it is really kind of hard to play for club player. Gm can take with the pawn and play aggressivly for space but I can tell that for weaker players it is much harder to play for white. You must play very accuratlly and you can have no advantage...

And I agree that c5 just after c6 is weird concept. Of course Lasker was well prepared and must have checked all critical variations.

Nov-17-14  Sanshine: Capablanca is simply the best!! I wish He should have been my personal chess coach and ... I could ... well take on Carlsen and definitely get the better of him.
Feb-14-21
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  Ziryab: Capablanca can be your coach. Read his books.
Feb-15-21
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  fredthebear: Lasker can be your coach. Read his books:-)

I would include John Nunn's Chess Course, which includes more than a 100 examples of Lasker's games. https://www.amazon.com/John-Nunns-C...

Feb-15-21
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  chancho: This looks like a promising book on how to study Chess:

https://www.newinchess.com/studying...

It should be available in May.

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