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Capablanca Knows How to Mate

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Updated: Jul 4, 2007, 4:31 PM | 6 | Amazing Games

Here is an early game  of Jose Capablanca when he lived in New York and was going to school.  He accepts the King's Gambit, ignores the threat on his Queen and finds a neat mate.

 

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