Sac For The Endgame

Submitted by benws on Mon, 01/18/2010 at 6:07pm.

Here is another interesting game played by Capablanca. He sacrifices a queen in the middlegame, but it is not meant for mate or material. The queen is sacrificed as the most effective way to reach a favorable endgame. Quite a novel idea, is is not?

Note that this was played when Capablanca was only 12 years old, in a match for the Championship of Cuba. Anyway, the endgame was won by Capablanca with his usual elegance and accuracy. It is also impressive that he took only 42 minutes to play the 60 moves!

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by muralidharancg - 20 months ago
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greaaat

by vincent_pang - 22 months ago
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A place where the term genius would be insulting.

by mrigankvjti - 23 months ago
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He is rightly called the "Chess Machine"

by gambit156 - 23 months ago
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super!!

by averil - 2 years ago
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Nice game, it never ceases to amaze me how the greatest chess players of all time were just as intelligent in their childhood as they were as adults...

by ericycsong - 2 years ago
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good

by leonelcm - 2 years ago
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As a great chess player young Capablanca shows his habilities for this game. Very interesting and instructive article, thanx for sharing.

by NinjaBear - 2 years ago
LOL, I'm not really in China

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Excellent minor piece coordination in that variation.

by mwafrika - 2 years ago
diaspora Uganda

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capa was 12.....?!?!?!

I give up on chess and life in general....

why was he such a gem at such a young and tender age whilst some of us by age 12, we could hardly count past six?

arrrgh!!!

by Mimchi - 2 years ago
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Capablanca is ... 12 here!?!!!!

by madpawn - 2 years ago
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Capas combinations were so subtle, yet so far sighted. Great game.

by Elroch - 2 years ago
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Fascinating game I was not familiar with. He was clearly showing off for the crowd!

by shuttlechess92 - 2 years ago
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curiously enough, 28...Bb5 was forced. if 28... Bxe6, then Rxe6! wins along the long diagonal (a la note to the 19th move!).

although I might comment that it was not a tactic for the endgame, but rather just an example of the "pre-professional" Capablanca tactical brilliance. Unfortunately as Capablanca began facing stronger opponents, his games' luster shined greater in the endgame as opposed to the middlegame. Luckily there are treasures like these to let us track the development of the legendary Cuban.

by Servietsky - 2 years ago
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very intersting queen sacrifice

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