Jun-27-06
 | | offramp: Some wonderful soul has submitted a picture to this game. Capablanca, who was on good form in this event, looks happy. A young looking Czerniak looks quite big. Réti had cloned himself 5 times and all the Rétis look on in the background. It's actually a bit like a deleted scene from The Matrix. This is an extremely good game. It is a bit too complicated in the middlegame for me to comprehend, but Fritz reckons that 20...Qb6 might have been better, and that 24...Nef3+
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might have won. |
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| Jun-27-06 | | CapablancaFan: Wow, what a middlegame. So loaded with tricks and tactics it would take me some time to actually give a credible analysis of everything that's going on. Moshe Czerniak was lucky to get away with a draw here. Nice photo btw. |
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| Jun-27-06 | | RookFile: Queen + Knight is very powerful, Capa had to be careful he didn't actually lose this. |
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| Jun-27-06 | | paladin at large: <offramp> Thanks for bringing this to our attention; very nice picture, too. Capablanca was evidently feeling rather well at the Olympiad, judging by his excellent result and voluble commentary for the print media. Regarding this opening game, he provided the following for the Argentine newspaper, Crítica (from Winter): "I was fairly satisfied with my own performance. It was an interesting game in which, immediately after the opening, I obtained an advantage which I was able to maintain until the end and which should have been decisive. My friends and many aficionados will no doubt have thought that I should have won, and they are probably absolutely right. But what was important for me ws to satisfy myself about my strength not only as regards strategy and general positional judgment but also the ability to see and examine in depth possible combinations. In these respects I was reasonably satisfied. Perhaps I was weak from the technical point of view, as has started to be the case for some time.........." |
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| Jun-27-06 | | Runemaster: <offramp: Réti had cloned himself 5 times and all the Rétis look on in the background. It's actually a bit like a deleted scene from The Matrix.> LOL. Reti did end up a bit on the cutting-room floor of chess history. But it looks like Art Garfunkel slipped into the picture on Capablanca's right. |
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| Aug-06-07 | | notyetagm: <offramp: ... Réti had cloned himself 5 times and all the Rétis look on in the background. It's actually a bit like a deleted scene from The Matrix.> LMAO!
Funniest comment I have ever read here at cg.com.
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Sep-14-07
| | offramp: Thanks, notyetagm! I try to do my best! |
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| Sep-14-07 | | whiteshark: A few day later (in the Finals) they played again: Capablanca vs Czerniak, 1939 |
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| Mar-07-13 | | Garech: What a game indeed!
-Garech |
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Feb-03-19
 | | Check It Out: Where's the photo everyone is talking about? |
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| Feb-03-19 | | jith1207: I can see the photo.
But I also see ghosts sometimes. |
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Feb-04-19
| | Check It Out: Hm. I'm on a cel phone, maybe that's the issue. Checking a computer... |
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Feb-04-19
| | Check It Out: That is the issue! Why doesn't that great photo show on a cel phone? |
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| Feb-04-19 | | rogge: I can see the photo on my Android phone. If you have some kind of ad-blocker installed, photos can be blocked too. |
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| Nov-30-23 | | jerseybob: <offramp:....all the Rétis look on in the background.(Or maybe the Dancing Itos?) Fritz reckons that 20...Qb6 might have been better, and that 24...Nef3+ might have won.> Both suggestions look credible to me, but I'm sure Czerniak still treasured the draw and Capa was very charitable-sounding. Several of my wins and draws against stronger players were "undeserved", but I look back fondly on them. |
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Jan-10-25
 | | plang: 5 Bd3 had been played once before; 5 c4 was new. White's opening setup led to weak isolated e-pawn as well as a weak e5 square. After building up a clearly advantageous, pawn-up position Capablanca missed the shot 24..Nef3+ when he is winning after 25 Rxf3..Rxe2 26 Rd3..Rxd3 27 Qxd3..Qb6+ 28 Kh1..Qf2 29 Qd8+..Be8 30 h3..Nf3!. 24..Nd3 would also have led to a bigger advantage than Capablanca's 24..Bxf5?. 33..Qb7 gave White good counterplay; better would have been 33..Qd7: ie. 34 Qxd7..Nxd7 35 Ne7+..Kf8 36 Nxc6..a6!. |
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Kibitzing
