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Fred Reinfeld vs Matthew Green
Marshall CC Championship (1935), New York, NY USA
Indian Game: Capablanca Variation (A47)  ·  1-0

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Jul-23-19  YoungEd: This is listed as an Indian game, but really Reinfeld is just playing the Colle system. Not real analysis, but...9...e5 looks like a mistake; after 10. d5 White enjoys a permanent space advantage. Black's later tries of ...g5 and ...f5 ended up being more weakening than space-gaining.
Jul-24-19
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  Sally Simpson: ***

As a genuine Colle usually come from a 1.d4 d5 set up the (Queens) Indian tag seems justified.

One idea being when White eventually plays e4 it hits nothing and if Black cements e5 the d3 Bishop, the Colle Bishop, has to find other ways to get into the game.

Not sure why they call it the Capablanca variation. He did have this set up as Black v Colle. Colle vs Capablanca, 1929 but so did the first seven moves in Nimzovitvh v Gilg two rounds earlier. Gilg vs Nimzowitsch, 1929 where the opeing looks very much like a French Defence and is called the 'Indian Game: Yusupov-Rubinstein System'.

Maybe they figured Nimzovitch already has enough openings and variations named after him, let's give this one to Capablanca.

Best not to get too het up about opening names. However one day they may use 'Name that Opening' as a tie breaker - they have tried everything else so why not. So until that day I'd forget what it's called and concentrate more about the idea(s) behind it.

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