Questions tagged [capablanca]
Cuban Grandmaster José Raúl Capablanca (1888-1942) was the World Champion of chess from 1921 to 1927. He was known for his immaculate endgame play. At times he was nearly impossible to defeat; between 1916 and 1924, he lost one game.
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Which classic chess books are in the public domain?
While looking through Project Gutenberg I noticed that Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals is there (I believe that should mean it is in the Public Domain). I was also able to find Modern Ideas in Chess ...
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What is the origin, or a early appearance, of this famous chess tale?
There is a story I have found across the Internet of an endgame between two players, usually named as Capablanca versus an extraterrestrial of some sort. According to the Spanish chess Wikipedia, the ...
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How much time did Capablanca have / use on the clock to refute Frank Marshall's Marshall Attack over the board?
Capablanca's over the board refutation of Frank Marshall's deep home preparation, in what was later called the Marshall Attack, is widely regarded as one of the great defensive masterpieces of all ...
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Is there a good book on the 1927 Capablanca-Alekhine world championship match?
To disambiguate what I mean by the shorthand "good" in the question's title:
Is there an English-language book that tells the story of the 1927 world championship match between Capablanca and ...
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How do you get to this trap position?
[FEN "rn1qkbnr/ppp1pppp/8/8/2B3b1/2N2N2/PPPP1PPP/R1BQK2R b KQkq - 0 1"]
1...Nf6 2.Bxf7+ Kxf7 3.Ne5+ Kg8 4.Nxg4
It's black to move. There is a trap: 1...Nf6 2.Bxf7+ Kxf7 3.Ne5+ Kg8 4.Nxg4 and white ...
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Has any other grandmaster gone as long undefeated like Capablanca?
Between 1916 and 1924, future World Champion J.R. Capablanca, as of 1921, experienced a period of eight years without a single tournament defeat. He was then regarded as one of the world's best ...
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Why did Black resign this game?
This is a game between Jose Raul Capablanca and Viacheslav Ragozin, Moscow 1935:
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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.a3 Bxc3+ 5.bxc3 d6 6.Qc2 O-O 7.e4 e5 8.Bd3 c5 9.Ne2 Nc6 10.d5 Ne7? 11.f3 Nd7 12....
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Did Maria Teresa Mora Iturralde beat Capablanca 2.5-0.5?
(Possibly better suited on the Skeptics SE, but the claim is completely related to chess)
In 1922, she exceeded all expectations. Maria Theresa became the only woman to ever to have competed with men ...
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Why, in this Capablanca game, was this move considered bad?
Regarding this position:
[fen "r2qr1k/pbpn1pbp/1p1p1np1/4p3/1PP5/3P1NP1/PBQNPPBP/R2R2K1 w - - 1 1"]
I have 2 questions:
1)If the game goes 1..c5 2.b5 the engine shows white slightly better but if 1....
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Capablanca vs Lasker - 1921 WCC
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1241495
[White "Capablanca"]
[Black "Lasker"]
[FEN "2r2rk1/pb1n1ppp/Bp3q2/2p5/3P4/Q3PN2/PP3PPP/2R1K2R b K - 1 16"]
This is the 5ht Match game for the ...
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A book on the Lasker - Capablanca World Championship Match (1921)
Recently I've been studying Lasker - Capablanca World Championship Match (1921). Is there a book that gives the story behind the match? Also, I would appreciate the game annotations.
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Symmetrical opening
In Capablanca's "Chess Fundamentals" this symmetrical oppening is considerd.
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1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 Bb4 5.O-O O-O 6.d3 d6 7.Bg5
The author then claims that a long analysis shows ...
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Why does castling in the Four Knights: Double Spanish opening inadvertantly stop Bxc3?
So I am currently working through Chess Fundamentals by Capablanca and he said something I find opaque: following 1.e4, e5 2.Nf3, Nc6 3.Nc3, Nf6 4.Bb5, Bb4 "5.0-0 an indirect way of preventing 5.....
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Looking for a historic chess game
I'm looking for an historic chess game, and I don't remember if Capablanca or Kasparov played it. In it, both queens are face to face and neither let pass the other one, for almost 7 or 10 movements, ...
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Why did Capablanca win a majority of games playing as black?
The first-move advantage is said to make it slightly more likely for white to win. This is shown in many databases of chess games, such as chessgames.com which shows the following results:
White wins ...
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Winning middlegame?
The following is a winning middlegame for White from Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals. It's white to play.
[FEN "2nb1rk1/1pqrnppp/p2p4/2pQ1N2/6P1/1P1B1N1P/P3RP2/3R2K1 w - - 0 0"]
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Can someone explain the playing style of the great Jose Raul Capablanca?
I have heard that he plays intuitively(maybe based on themes), but can someone give an example?
How did he manage to reach such heights despite his laziness for calculations?
Doesn't that mean even ...
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