Aug-16-16 Alexander Alekhine 
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Harmonicus: Today I was reading Aagaard's book "Excelling at positional chess" and found this interesting: "Alekhine found that Capablanca was a better chessplayer than he, and also found that when Capablanca was in his element, the endgame, he became lazy and stopped working. Consequently ... |
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Jun-12-13 S von Freymann vs Alekhine, 1914 
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Harmonicus: This is an awesome attacking game from Alekhine, 11...Bb7 is a nice positional sacrifice of a pawn in order to gain activity, after that every single black move is a strong and forcing threat |
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