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Nov-05-14
 | | perfidious: To compare this to Byrne-Fischer does neither full credit; for they are both magnificent conceptions by the victor, despite David Levy's mean-spirited and dismissive comments on the latter game in <How Fischer Plays Chess>. |
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| Nov-05-14 | | gofer: <visayanbraindoctor:That's less than a minute per move.> 0:42 + 1:35 = 137 minutes
60 moves in 137 minutes
2+ minutes per move
The <difference> on the clocks is more telling. Capa was beating hit opponent over the head with his clock, playing (on average) more than three times faster than his opponent. That's going to demoralise most opponents even if the moves are only half decent. But here they are kind
of special... |
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| Nov-05-14 | | kevin86: White had to be careful not to take the pawn earlier, as two rook pawns would NOT win as the bishop is the wrong color. Capa, or course was careful to guarentee a KNIGHT'S pawn to win with. |
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| Nov-05-14 | | newhampshireboy: Incredible! Capablanca was the Mozart of chess. |
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| Nov-05-14 | | lemaire90: 32.Nh4! would have been a beautiful finish to the attack ! : threatening Nxf5 and neutralizing in advance black's text variation defense of Qxf1, because if 32...gxh5, white can attack the pinned rook with 33.Rg1, a threat that Qxf1 would not take care of. 29.Qxb5 is really a stunning move, justifying the dark squared bishop fiachetto played as of move 4, as white's two center pawns can then be unleashed. Move like this one are really when chess gets beyond me. In an OTB game, I probably would not have considered it. Capa is really an artist. |
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| Nov-15-14 | | Tal1949: I rate this the best game ever played by a young teenager. Only 42 minutes for the whole game and a Queen sacrifice as well. Remarkable! Amazingly none of my chess engines want to play the Queen sacrifice, they all prefer to move away. Yet when I show them Capa's move they love it. Very strange. And the ending was fantastic. First he could have captured at the wrong point and ended up not able to use his bishop on the a8 square, and it also could have been a horrible stalemate on that last move. 60 Kc6?? 60...g1(Q) 61Bxg1 stalemate |
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| Sep-11-16 | | Albion 1959: On move 56 Capablanca played Kd4, which is just about what everybody else would have played - yes? Because we all know that if he had taken the pawn on a5 the position is a "book" draw because the bishop does not control the queening square a8. However, Rybka actually suggests taking on a5! isolating the a-pawns. This looks as if white can never win now and is analogous to game five of the Karpov v Korchnoi match in 1978. However, as good as Rybka is, it does have a failure to comprehend the long-term nature of certain types of endgames. Here is a case in point. |
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| Jan-14-18 | | jackmandoo: Play the middlegame like a magician and the endgame like a machine they said. So he did. |
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| Feb-22-18 | | hudman653: Wait didn't Capa get to use Corso's time as well? So 42 minutes to make his moves is not quite correct |
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| Feb-22-18 | | TheFocus: <hudman653: Wait didn't Capa get to use Corso's time as well? So 42 minutes to make his moves is not quite correct> Well, Corzo got to use Capa's time also, and still lost. |
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| Jan-24-19 | | OrangeTulip: I find this Stockfish annotations quite irritating. |
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| Mar-04-19 | | Garech: What a dazzling game from the 13-year old who has never read a book on chess! |
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| Feb-08-20 | | BartolomeuJoao: Move 42.Ng8+ is very deep. |
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Jul-29-21
 | | OhioChessFan: I just googled the game title, trying to figure out the pun. The only response was this game. So, what does the pun mean? |
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Jul-29-21
 | | HeMateMe: Is it a movie or TV show? Famous novel? |
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| Jul-29-21 | | Brenin: It's a long shot, but there's a film about Idi Amin called The Last King of Scotland. |
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| Jul-29-21 | | Whitehat1963: Still love this game! |
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| Jul-29-21 | | Stanco: My take on the pun:
Juan Corzo was the Cuban champion at the time, therefore once beaten he became the last "bishop" of Havana, becouse the era of minor pieces (read players) of Cuba (or bishops so to say) came to an end! Capablanca was the king! They were "small" players compared to him. |
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Jul-29-21
 | | Phony Benoni: Perhaps it's just a reference to the bishop being the last piece standing. My first thought was "Last Night in Marienbad", but of course that was "Last Year...". By the way, this game was used as GOTD on Nov-05-14 with the title "Crash Corzo". That's the second time this week we've reused a game with a different pun. If we can do that now, I've got a few doozies to submit! |
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| Jul-29-21 | | Whitehat1963: Stockfish suggests that black missed an opportunity: 23...exf5 24. e6 f4 25. Qe2 Rae8 26. Bf5 Nh6 27. Bxg6 Rxe6 28. Ne5 Rgxg6 29. Qf3 Qd6 30. Nxg6+ Rxg6 31. Qe2 Re6 32. Qh5 Nf5 33. Rxe6 Qxe6 34. Qxg5 Ne3+ 35. Kg1 Nxf1 36. Kxf1 Qxh3+ 37. Ke1 Qe3+ 38. Kd1 Qf3+ 39. Kd2 Qe4 40. Qe5+ Kg8. |
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Jul-29-21
| | HeMateMe: I had a Cuba pun put up as GOTD a couple of years back. I submitted <Our Man in Havana>, using Fischer's teletype game to play a Cuba tournament. Fischer was playing from the Marshall Chess Club in Manhattan, if memory serves. Cuba became off limits for American sportsmen and business people after Castro took control. Our Man in Havana was a British comedy about a bumbling MI-5 'spy', a spoof on the James Bond franchise. |
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| Jul-21-22 | | Caissanist: This was the immortal User: jackmandoo 's last ever comment on chessgames. For those wondering whatever happened to him, he has now turned his penetrating insights and comprehensive mastery to larger geopolitical issues on Twitter, under the name Three Year Letterman: https://twitter.com/3YearLetterman . I know some may believe I am making unwarranted assumptions here but the man is absolutely sui generis. It really couldn't be anyone else. |
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Jul-22-22
 | | fredthebear: <Caissanist> What can you tell me about the demise of Chessville? |
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| May-30-23 | | DanLanglois: 29. Qxb5 just isn't best, the queen sac is therefore kind of bogus. This didn't have to take 60 moves. 29. Qd2 Bxf1 30. exf7
click for larger view30...Rgf8 31. Ne5
click for larger viewBlack might have to try 31...f4 here, to prevent Qxg5 and so forth. 31...f4 32. Rxf1
click for larger view32...Rad8 33. Qc2
click for larger view33...Rd6 34. Rg1
click for larger viewIf 34...h6 then 35. Ng6+.
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Jun-24-24
 | | clarklkzy: It's an interesting position after 51...a5. Black's extra pawn and white's bishop are basically canceling each other out. They are both standing guard against the other. They might as well not even be on the board at this point. |
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sac: 29.Qxb5
