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| Nov-15-05 | | jaaron11: I think part of the reason that Capablanca's play is often described as "effortless" is the speed and accuracy with which he played in complicated positions. It must have been unnerving to sit across from him and calculate variations for 20 minutes, only to see his rejoinder played almost off-handedly in a matter of moments. |
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Nov-15-05
 | | chancho: I read in some book that when you played Alekhine, you didn't know what was coming.But when you played Capablanca, you knew what was coming, but you could not stop it. |
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| Nov-16-05 | | paladin at large: <chancho> I believe it was G.A. Thomas who said that. |
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| Nov-16-05 | | euripides: 36 Nd2 may be an oversight. But White is possibly in a fatal zugzwang anyway. If 36 b4 Black can wait and allow bxc5 bxc5 or b5, and then White seems to run out of moves. |
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Nov-16-05
| | chancho: <paladin at large> Thanks for the info. |
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| Nov-17-05 | | ughaibu: Euripides: It's an interesting idea. In this game Capablanca isn't actively exchanging but the exchanges sought by his opponent dont relieve the opponent's position. As exchanges seem to have always been considered the standard method of reducing pressure, it's possible that Capablanca made a practice of forming plans that would specifically lead to his advantage in case of exchanges thus forcing his opponents to search for non-standard plans, almost a species of psychological zugzwang. It would be interesting to see if he was able to win in the same style against the strongest opponents, capable of more imaginative planning than Sergeant (I dont feel that the Nimzowitsch game really illustrates the same effect). |
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Nov-17-05
 | | Mateo: <euripides: 36 Nd2 may be an oversight. But White is possibly in a fatal zugzwang anyway. If 36 b4 Black can wait and allow bxc5 bxc5 or b5, and then White seems to run out of moves.> 36. Nd2? loses. It is just a blunder. I do not see any zugzwang after 36. b4, threatening b5. Black must stop this. If 36... a6 37. b5!. If 36... Bb8 (or Bd8 or Bf4) 37. b5 Kd6 38. Nf5. So Black must play 36... Nf4 and there is no zugzswang. |
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| Nov-17-05 | | euripides: <Mateo> yes I had thought Black could simply play Kd7 but hadn't noticed that White attacks d5. One possibility is 36 b4 Bf4 37 b5+ Kd6 38 Nf5+ Kd7 39 N1e3 Bxe3 40 Kxe3 (not Nxe3 Nf4+ followed by Nxg2) Nf4 41 Kf2 Nd3+ 42 Ke2 Nb2 43 Kd2 Nxa4 44 Kc2 and White is probably OK as Black has to extricate his knight. So perhaps Black should play 36...Nf4+ as you suggest and continue with c4 gaining hold of d3. |
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| Nov-17-05 | | euripides: ...another possiblity is 36 b4 Nf4+ 37 Kd2 cxb4 38 cxb4 b5 fixing the b4 pawn as a target. After 39 a5 Bd6 40 Kc3 Black has Ne2+. I feel Capablanca would have found a win but it would be nice to be sure. |
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| Nov-19-05 | | Calli: This game is an easy win even without 36.Nd2.
<Euripedes> <another possiblity is 36 b4 Nf4+ 37 Kd2 cxb4 38 cxb4 b5 fixing the b4 pawn as a target> Exactly or d4 can become a target. Most exact is 36.b4 Nf4+ 37.Kc2 a6 and either White is passive and Black will exchange pawns 38.Kd2 cxb4 39.cxb4 b5 40.axb5+ axb5 41.Kc3 Bb6 or White can try exchanging 38.dxc5 bxc5 39.Kb3 Be5. Either way, White can't defend the k-side and q-side at the same time. A far-sighted plan by Capablanca.
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| Oct-12-06 | | notyetagm: <Knights hate rook pawns!> Steve Giddins says this over and over again in his new book "50 Essential Chess Lessons". Here Capablanca provides a great example. The position after 37 ... ♘xg2! 38 ♘xg2 h3 is absolutely hysterical: 
click for larger viewWhite has not one but two(!) knights in the vicinity of the Black h3-pawn's h1-promotion square but he is utterly powerless(!) to prevent this passed pawn from promoting. So great is the inability of knights to deal with passed rook pawns that in this position not even a pair of knights can stop one Black passed pawn, since it is a rook pawn. <Knights hate rook pawns!> |
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| Oct-12-06 | | Autoreparaturwerkbau: So true, <notyetagm>. Well pointed out. |
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| Oct-12-06 | | CapablancaFan: <notyetagm> Everything you said is exactly correct. For Sergeant to even have played one more move would have been almost anti-climatic. As I pointed out in my previous post, Sergeant had a nasty choice, allow Cap to have a passed pawn or allow Capa to have a passed pawn! Lol.. He took the best course of action in this situation...resigned! |
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| Jun-26-11 | | notyetagm: Game Collection: KNIGHTS *HATE* ROOK PAWNS! |
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| Oct-03-19 | | iron john: 21.kh3 looks better . |
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Jan-26-24
 | | offramp:
"She offered her honour.
He honoured her offer.
And all night long he was on her and off her." |
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| Jan-26-24 | | goodevans: And once again the home page garbles the game title: <Honneur et Fidélité> It happens so often you'd think someone might care enough to fix it. |
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Jan-26-24
 | | Teyss: Pun assistance, anyone? Is it referring to the French Foreign Legion's motto? Offramp translation, anyone? |
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| Jan-26-24 | | goodevans: <Offramp translation, anyone?> It's a well known, crude little ditty.
It involves a couple of homophone puns which might have been more obvious if the last line had been written <... he was on 'er and off 'er>. |
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Jan-26-24
 | | fredthebear: Don't underestimate what goes on off-screen:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bannerlord... |
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Jan-26-24
| | offramp: <Teyss: Pun assistance, anyone? Is it referring to the French Foreign Legion's motto?
Offramp translation, anyone?>
I think a lot of people know that old ditty. I don't think if it has a connection to the title of today's GotD. I bung in that ditty just to say something.
I am mystified about the pun, if it is one. |
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Jan-26-24
 | | OhioChessFan: She asked him for a double entendre, so he gave it to her. |
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| Jan-26-24 | | mrknightly: Sorry if my pun submission is a bit esoteric. My thought pattern at the time was: French defense, opponent named Sergeant, military connection, French Foreign Legion, ah the motto, "Honneur et Fidélité." Thanks to <offramp> for his alternative elucidation. |
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Jan-26-24
 | | MissScarlett: Recalls the <Only Fools and Horses> episode when Grandad relates the time he and Nobby Clarke set out to join the Legion: <Well, we jumped ship and made our way to their barracks. When we got there we couldn't believe our eyes. They were the biggest band of cutthroats, villains and murderers you could ever hope to see! They was the scum of the earth!So you didn't join?
We tried but they wouldn't have us!>
Read more: https://www.springfieldspringfield.... |
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Jan-26-24
| | Teyss: Hi goodevans & offramp,
Thanks for the explanation. I should have remembered offramp's thought process is on a different level, way above my head.Missy's thought process is also on a different level. Way below our feet. |
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