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| Aug-24-18 | | WorstPlayerEver: 22... Nxc3 23. Bxb7 Qxb7 24. Rxc3 Rd8 and White is facing serious trouble:
click for larger view25. a4 e5 26. Nf3 bxa4 27. Qc2 Qe4
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22... Nxc3 23. Bxb7 Qxb7 24. Qxc3 Bf6 25. a4 Rd8 26. axb5 axb5 27. h4 Qd5 28. Kh2 h5 29. Ra1 Bxd4 30. Qxd4 Qxd4 31. exd4 Rxd4 
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Better defense was:
27. Rf1 Rd8 28. axb5 axb5
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| Nov-26-20 | | yurikvelo: https://pastebin.com/nReySkaN
deep multiPV of decisive Capablanka mistakes |
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| May-06-21 | | SymphonicKnight: As few have pointed out; Capablanca does make a notable error in playing 22.Nc3? (~-1.7 Stockfish) instead of 23.Nc5! but as Lasker noted
for example 23...Bxc5!? 24.bxc5 Rc8 25.e4 Nf6 26.a4! Rxc5 27.Qb4! Nd7 28.axb5 a5 29.Qe1 when black only has a very slight advantage (~-0.3))
or 23...Nd2! 24.Qb2 Nxf3+ 25.Nxf3 Rc8 26.Nxb7 Qxb7 27.Be5 Rxc1 28.Qxc1 (~-0.2)). Black was slowly outplaying white until 30...e4! (~-2.0), but Capablanca missed the slightly better 31.Nh2 (~-2.0) and played Nd4 (~-2.3), and then after the fatal 31...Bxd4, 32.Rd1?? (~-7) just loses immediately. |
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| Jan-27-22 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: In his book, 'Chess Fundamentals,' Capablanca gave an example of white's queen's bishop being completely shut out of the game, and in this game white's bishop never gets into the game. Capablanca's play is, as Alekhine complained of his play in general, too passive, and Alekhine's 21 ... Qa8 is typical of his own play, trying to produce tension in the position. Everything is wrong with white's position as he is gradually starved of space. I do agree with the critic who said that Capablanca should have started at least some games with 1. e4. I cannot believe he would have been so comprehensively outplayed as in this game had he been playing a Ruy Lopez - or even against an Alekhine's Defence. |
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Jan-27-22
 | | keypusher: <I do agree with the critic who said that Capablanca should have started at least some games with 1. e4.> Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1927 (kibitz #105) |
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| Jan-27-22 | | RookFile: 1. c4 is pretty good too. It's a way to get an unbalanced pawn formation. |
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| Jan-27-22 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: Thank you keypusher, for reminding me that Capablanca did play 1. e4 in the first game of the match and was comprehensively outplayed then too.
It may be that it was such a shock that he decided not to play it again, but Capablanca failed to heed his own advice in that game too! Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1927 <N.O.F. NAJDORF: It is hard to believe that the loser of this game had some six years earlier had a book published, called 'Chess Fundamentals,' in which he emphasised the importance of the 'co-ordination of the pieces.' The first time I played through this game, I too had the idea of playing Nd1, but not only with the intention of playing Ne3, but c3 too. If Capablanca had played c3 - a fairly typical Capablanca move - he could never have got into the difficulties he did later. The pawn on c2, bishop blocked in on e3, and knight misplaced on f4, provide Alekhine with the opportunity to win the very first game of the match, with the black pieces! Perhaps the most humiliating aspect of Capa's defeat is that the main variation contains a back-row mate - his specialty.> |
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| May-03-22 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: It is curious that Capablanca overlooked
32 ... Nxe3
in the game
because presumably he decided not to sacrifice the exchange ten moves earlier on account of 22. Rxc4 bxc4 23. Qxc4 Nxe3 (24. fxe3 Bxe4 25. Nxe6 Bxf3 26. Nxf8 Bxg2 27. Ng6 Bg5) |
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| May-03-22 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: I think Capablanca made many wrong moves.
I think he should have played 11.Bd3 instead of 11.Be2and that
14.Nd4, 15.b4, 16.Bg3 and 17.Qb3
were all wrong too,
giving him a very passive position.
One of the big differences between his position and black's is that black's bishops get to do things, while white's are just waiting. |
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Sep-05-22
 | | kingscrusher: An iconic game for me because of the Knight outpost manoevering to c4 which I was able to use in some of my own games. At the time of seeing this game annotated in one of my chess books, it wasn't made entirely clear that Alekhine was a largely combinational-centric player before adaption for this match with Capablanca. |
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| May-30-23 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: Could white have sacrificed the exchange:
22. Rxc4 bxc4 23. Qxc4 Nxe3 24. fxe3 Bxe4 25. Nxe6 Bxf3 26. Nxf8 Bxg2 27. Ng6 Bg5 28. Nf4 Bh1 29. Kf1 Qf3+ 30. Bf2 Qd1+ 31. Be1 ? |
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May-30-23
 | | beatgiant: <N.O.F. NAJDORF> Black has a big improvement over your line with 22. Rxc4 bxc4 23. Qxc4 Nxe3 24. fxe3 Bxe4 25. Nxe6 Bxf3 26. Nxf8 and at this point, instead of 26...Bxg2, <26...Bd5> and Black gets an extra bishop for a pawn. There may be other improvements too, and besides that Black seems to have a large advantage even at the end of the line you posted. So the short answer is no. |
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| May-31-23 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: Maybe not:
22. Rxc4 bxc4 23. Qxc4 Rc8 24. Nc5 Nb6 25. Qc2 Bxf3 26. Nxf3 Nd7 22. Rxc4 bxc4 23. Qxc4 Rc8 24. Nc5 Nb6 25. Bxb7 Qxb7 26. Qc2 Qd5 27. Ndb3 Nd7 28. e4 Qc6 29. Na5 Qb5 |
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| May-31-23 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: < beatgiant: <N.O.F. NAJDORF> Black has a big improvement over your line with 22. Rxc4 bxc4 23. Qxc4 Nxe3 24. fxe3 Bxe4 25. Nxe6 Bxf3 26. Nxf8 and at this point, instead of 26...Bxg2, <26...Bd5> and Black gets an extra bishop for a pawn.
There may be other improvements too, and besides that Black seems to have a large advantage even at the end of the line you posted.> I do not agree that black has a big advantage in the line I gave but I do agree that it is refuted by your suggestion 26... Bd5. I did see that move in at least one variation, but somehow overlooked it. |
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Oct-28-23
 | | plang: In his next three whites after this game Capablanca chose 8 cxd which is now considered to be the main line though Alekhine was able to draw all three games. Alekhine had played 10..c5 four times earlier in the match. Both Lasker and Kasparov thought that 11..c5 would have been better and that White could have taken advantage of that omission by playing 12 b4. When White did play 15 b4?! it was too late to give hime active play and just created a weakness at c4. A really subtle positional game by Alekhine; several of his moves were not at all obvious. |
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Apr-29-25
 | | Teyss: 'Götterdämmerung', as spelled on the homepage, means "Thé Tw¶l¶ght öf thé Göds", an opera by W¤gnèr. Good game, nice pun yet not really fitting on the tw¶l¶ght part since the players were in their prime. On the göds part, granted. Don't have time to read all the comments above, will do tonight, but surely there's better stuff than I could post. |
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Apr-29-25
 | | offramp: <Teyss: 'Götterdämmerung', as spelled on the homepage, means "Thé Tw¶l¶ght öf thé Göds", an opera by W¤gnèr...>. It does indeed say G🏆🎯💎ötterdÃ♾ ᵕ̈♡︎💍˚✩mmerung <(by As<e = ∑∞ⁿ⁼⁰ ¹ₙ>rador)> on the Home Page. chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #41843)
<<offramp:...I suggested the title for the 14th game of Ding Liren vs D Gukesh, 2024, or the <absolute final game>: <Götterdämmerung>, (without accents).
Bear it in mind because it'll never have a better chance for <Dommaraju>.>> For Ding Liren vs D Gukesh, 2024 I suggested <GötterDommaraju>. |
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| Apr-29-25 | | Petrosianic: <N.O.F. NAJDORF>: <Everything is wrong with white's position as he is gradually starved of space.> Not everything is wrong, that's what makes the game interesting. It's hard to tell exactly where White went wrong. With 20/20 hindsight, and a lot of thought, it appears that the problem is 16. Bg3. The Bishop never does anything useful the entire game, which is why it seems like White is almost a piece down for most of it. |
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Apr-29-25
| | offramp: In this match Capablanca was outplayed, and most obviously in <this> game. Capablanca said that he played at his best in the Capablanca - Kostic (1919). That was 8 long years earlier. |
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| Apr-29-25 | | Petrosianic: I don't think there's any dispute about who played better in this match. How a rematch would have gone is anybody's guess, though. But Alekhine took better advantage of his opportunities, though. Capa blew one game (12) through carelessness, and threw away one dead won game on the last move (27), and somehow contrived not to win a decidedly better middlegame in Game 31. If those three games had ended differently, the score would be 5-5. But Alekhine, on the other hand, pretty much took advantage of all his opportunities, and didn't let anything get away. Ergo, he played better. |
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Apr-29-25
 | | OhioChessFan: 31. Nd4 gives the otherwise imperiled Bishop an easy escape by exchanging. White spent a couple moves attacking it, then just offered an easy exchange. If instead 31. Nh2, Black's best is probably Bf6 but after Nf1, I think that minor piece is better. It also gives a little protection to the King on the first rank. |
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Apr-29-25
 | | Check It Out: As they say in West Virginia, well got dam! |
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Apr-29-25
 | | perfidious: Capablanca's errors (excluding his final move) were of a subtle nature, requiring the same subtlety of exploitation by his great adversary. Alekhine clearly had enough doubt over the outcome of a rematch to not permit the Cuban a chance at one. |
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| Apr-29-25 | | Petrosianic: How would people rank Alekhine's wins in this match by quality? Probably most people would consider this one the most impressive, while everyone, including Alekhine would consider Game 12 the least impressive (it's the only win of the 6 that Alekhine didn't include in My Best Games). That leaves us with Game 1, 11, 32 and 34, and ranking them is very difficult. I think <objectively>, Game 11 has to go in the #5 spot due to the errors on both sides. But some people might consider it the best, just because it was the best fight. That leaves Games 1, 32 and 34 in the 2-4 spots, and it's hard to rank them. Game 1 sent the loudest message, Game 34 was a great endgame, and 32 was the one that decided the match for all practical purposes. I think I'm going to say 21, 1, 34, 32, 11, 12, but I could change my mind on most of them tomorrow. |
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| Apr-30-25 | | FM David H. Levin: <<OhioChessFan>: [...snip...] If instead 31. Nh2, Black's best is probably Bf6 but after Nf1, I think that minor piece is better. It also gives a little protection to the King on the first rank.> On 31. Nh2, Black would have 31...Qd3 32. Rxb2
click for larger view32...Qxb3 33. Rxb3 Rd1+ 34. Nf1 Nd2
click for larger view35. Rc3 Nxf1 36. Rc8+ Kh7 37. Bb8 Nxe3+, with an extra pawn and good winning chances. After 32. Rxb2 in the above line, I thought that Black would also have 32...Qd1+ 33. Nf1 Nxb2 34. Qxb2 Rc8 35. Qd2 Qb1, 
click for larger viewthreatening 36...Rc1 37. Qe2 Qd3 38. Qxd3 exd3 followed by ...d2. But the silicon analyst that I used to validate my analysis pointed out the interference 36. Bc7!, which might hold. |
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