Capablanca and Cheating!

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Many think that only recently people cheated using computers. In reality we have proof that also in the past some players were making the same moves a computer would play. Notice "a computer would play" because nowadays a GM wouldn't play those moves. Here we have a very known example, of a famous game, where strangely Deep Fritz12, and Capablanca would play the same wrong moves! Around move 13th Botvinnik plays Pa4, a move which is deeply strategic. Capablanca, and Deep Fritz12 don't understand it, and go for taking the A pawn! Black's moves from 13th to 15th would have been played by the engine too, showing that a case for cheating could be made today.

Enjoy the game!



Avatar of whirlwind2011

@jadarite: Clearly, Capablanca had the gift of prognostication, in addition to his chess prowess. Wink

@OP: Using a game that Capablanca lost to suggest that he was a cheater is probably not the most effective strategy to fulfill that agenda.

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whirlwind2011 wrote:

@jadarite: Clearly, Capablanca had the gift of prognostication, in addition to his chess prowess.

@OP: Using a game that Capablanca lost to suggest that he was a cheater is probably not the most effective strategy to fulfill that agenda.

Time travellers, not prognostication.

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@socialista: Either. Smile

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Capablanca used his wooden iTelegraph 5 hidden under his black hat. Notice that this would not be possible in 1936 because back then only white itelegraphs were available on the market.

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"..the computer made a typical human mistake.." (Polugaevsky in the early 50's, after playing a team game against the first russian chess computer in the university in Moscow)

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Capablanca went to the future in 2013, and then back to his time and made the move after seeing it as as the computer move.

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bean_Fischer wrote:

Capablanca went to the future in 2013, and then back to his time and made the move after seeing it as as the computer move.

Sadly it was not a Houdini 3 in default settings, it was setted in 1800 elo level, that´s why he lost the game.

In the case that Botvinnik had move 1.e4 we probably would have seen a two knights defense Nd4 variation. 

Avatar of isuckatchess1110

I saw another thread on chess.com that said there was a consensus that capablanca was cheating I thought they were just trolling but now I'm confused is everyone else crazy or am I crazy the guy died in 1942 he can't be a computer cheater right?

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Why did you change your mind?

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