Jose Raul Capablanca vs H E Leede / E F Korkus (1915) Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

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Jose Raul Capablanca vs H E Leede / E F Korkus
"Teamwork Makes the Dream Work" (game of the day Nov-30-2023)
Simul, 65b (1915) (exhibition), New York, NY USA, Feb-12
Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense. Pillsbury Variation (D40) · 0-1

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Nov-22-15		TheFocus: From a simultaneous exhibition in New York, New York on February 12, 1915. Capablanca scored +48=12-5.

Nov-30-23		HeMateMe: It's not a pun.

Nov-30-23		fredthebear: There's no I in T.E.A.M.

Nov-30-23		An Englishman: Good Evening: Thought Capablanca had a significant advantage 10 moves, but threw it away by the time he played 20.Rd2. However, all credit to the amateurs who fought back from an inferior opening and wrested victory from the future world champion.

Nov-30-23		Chessical: Could the black players be Edwin F Korkus and Horst Edward Leede?

Nov-30-23		goodevans: A 65 board simul. is a lot of games but I'd imagine there were a lot fewer by the time we got to the pointy end of this one. My first thought was why the heck would he let his knight get trapped like that? I think the answer is probably that he didn't think he still had winning chances and so was looking to get the draw done as quickly as possible. That would explain the odd-looking <61.Ne8> when more natural moves such as <61.Nf5> or <61.h3> were available. That idea might have worked if the losing move <64.g5?> had been met with <64...fxg5?> giving White connected passed pawns after 65.fxg5 and 66.Nxg7. Even then the draw wouldn't have been entirely straightforward as White's K can't hold up Black's last pawn so he must force home his own promotion. The SF annotations that give the right way to force the draw are far more straightforward. First there's <64.Kb3 Kd7 65.Kc4 Ba1 66.Nxg7 Bxg7 67.Kb5 Bc3>. Simple enough so far and the advantage of having White's K on b5 rather than a2 is obvious. Only now does White play <68.g5>: click for larger view It wouldn't matter whether Black plays <68...hxg5> here or allows <69.gxh6>. Either way his K is tied down to stopping White's pawns so he can't force home his own. Nothing complicated so it's surprising Capa missed this even in a simul.

Nov-30-23		MissScarlett: <Could the black players be Edwin F Korkus and Horst Edward Leede?> <Could be!> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n9... Leede and Korkus had just come off winning the annual CHYP intercollegiate tournament for Columbia. Recall reading up on Korkus. Guy was slick! Said he had no intention of becoming a chess professional. Think he went into banking. A great disappointment that Leede never lost a game to a Walter/Walker/etc. because <You Can Leede a Horst to Walter But Can't Make Him Think> would have been irresistible.

Nov-30-23		Messiah: Very weak pun.

Nov-30-23		FSR: Nice game by Horst and Edwin, though they blew the win and had to be given it again by Capablanca. 49...Kd4! would have been crushing. If you have the choice between a centralizing move and a non-centralizing move, the centralizing move is usually stronger. I learned this principle while playing my correspondence game K Thompson vs F Rhine, 1992. Time and time again in my analysis, I found a centralizing move to be superior to a non-centralizing move. That included 22...Qd3!!, which was far stronger than 22...Qxb3?!, the move that first came to mind.

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