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In this lecture we see Capablanca playing against surveillance coa.
He is the author of many witty chess quotations.
I'll check them out.
They're really great.
So this is in 1924, the New York tournament, round six.
So D four from Capablanca plays E six.
So this kind of invites a French defense transition if E for D five.
So very interesting move.
But it also avoids the Dutch defense Staunton gambit.
So E four is quite a strong gambit against the Dutch defense.
So E six is quite a popular choice of botvinnik and also Simon Williams.
So if you know the French defense, this is an interesting move.
We have Knight every f5c for Knight of six, Bishop G five, Bishop E, 79c3 Toms Castles e3b6.
Bishop D Free Bishop B seven White Castles, Queenie eight, Queen E two and now 94.
So this is an interesting points of the game.
I mean, we've Capablanca is Queen E two, he doesn't mind 94 and in fact, there seems to be a kind
of strategic threat of damaging the structure.
Capablanca welcomes this Bishop takes e seven.
He welcomes the doubling of the pawns.
It's not such a big deal in the context of the position and what's going on here.
Black is locking up a strategic pawn brain e four by occupying e four here.
And actually this is an inaccuracy.
92c free bettor would have been queen size E seven it seems.
So the lock and key over E four is held and for example Rook AC one why it doesn't incur structural
damage if not in st C three there's rook take C free and this position should be about even the way
it's played.
Maybe it's interesting to double the pawns of a positional player and say, Look, I've achieved this
against Capablanca, but let's look at what's happened here.
Why has the E4 break?
The E4 break will expose this pawn on E six.
It gives white a semi-open foul first A four is played though and we have Bishop takes a free giving
up the bishop voluntarily if d6e4.
Let's have a look at this.
This would be to White's advantage.
Why is a small advantage here?
So Bishop takes a free queen takes a free now 9c6 rook fb1.
If white plays E four here it's thought a small advantage for white overall.
Baruch fb one, Rook eight and now Queen H Free Rook f six.
F four.
So this locks down against E five and the pawns are at least harmonious with the bishop.
The bishop is not a bad bishop.
It's in harmony with these guys.
This one blocks it.
In 95 we have Queen 3d6 rookie, one, queen DD seven, and it's looking at the A pawn as well.
So kind of tying down this rook so we have double pawns there.
Is this that bad though, After E four is it that bad F takes e4 Queen takes e4, Black has to do something
about H seven so g6g3 We have king F eight, King G to Rook have seven.
And now there's a structural campaign being played here, in fact.
So what would you play with White in this position?
Why kind of aims to dice up black structure of fraud so incur structural damage of h five and ready
for dynamic play along the H file we have d five and Capablanca actually takes what seems to be an absolutely
brave decision that he's going to dissolve his double pawns if he takes.
But what about this pawn?
Isn't it a backward pawn?
Isn't that an exploitable weakness?
This is a big question here, even because one is committing now to simplification by taking taking
on simplification committed to.
And we can see there are cases here, examples where maybe black gets to torture the backward pawn.
However, there are advantages of White's position.
H five is played Rook six so Black is getting ready for Rook six But if black taken then these pawns
are pretty dice.
These pawns at age seven, H five and D five.
And this would be very unpleasant.
This would be to White's advantage as example.
So Rook have six H takes h takes rook h one.
So now King F eight Rook c six is not possible here because the the pieces are curable.
Bishop Be fine.
Thanks very much.
Winning so King F eight and now a rook on the seventh.
This is quite powerful.
Rook C six which seems dual purpose, defend and attack.
And now we have a really great move g four So here if the rook takes it would abandon g six and give
white two connected pass pawns.
So black treads with care with C four and we have now a move which is very, very powerful.
G five we have 90 free check.
KING Free and black goes badly wrong here, in fact, very badly wrong.
Black's only chance really to try and draw.
This is Knight D one it seems now that dance hits C free and G six is still protected.
And for example Rook six, King G seven.
This looks as though it's dangerous for Black Knight.
B two is a very accurate move here.
And it turns out this position, for example, is going to be about even after nine d free check.
This should be about even this is a very accurate way of playing things.
So 91 was the way he's play and if white plays king G4 ouch nine have to check.
So again, it seems as though this is a very accurate way of playing it.
So Rook six King G seven in the main line of this at five might be two.
Bishop be one.
Let's look again if King G for here G takes a five check, Bishop takes 90 C four check.
White's only got enough for equality.
It seems so anyway.
So that is an exploitation of C three without losing at least.
But Black played a five and in fact, it does seem like a terrible weakness for a positional player
like Capablanca to have.
But there's something magical about this position.
I mean, truly magical that this weakness is swapped swapping cards for a dangerous passport potential
and dangerous king to contribute to the rook on the seven.
FRANK So Kaplan actually plays Bishop takes a five fantastic move if King G4 and Rook take C three.
Yeah we have this which is the advantage as well.
But Bishop takes is great.
Now G takes is played black horn insert rook take C free check because of King G for protecting F5.
That's going to be to White's big advantage.
White's getting two pawns there.
So G takes a five and you might think, well, what's the problem for black?
Black is tapping into the back of pawn.
This is why positional players shouldn't have backward pawns right?
But we can build on our strengths in the position.
The rook on the seventh and our past pawn are two strengths.
We can build on those two strengths and swap our weakness to amplify our strengths.
So what is the move to to play here for 200 points?
It's a brilliant concept and it made me fall in love with end game.
Advantages.
This particular game inspired me to check out Capablanca more broadly.
In fact, so.
King Jeffrey, I thought, this is beautiful and dynamic.
So Rook, take C free check.
The king is getting very aggressive and it's another pawn sacrifice employed here.
So we're trading off also this weakness to further amplify the past pawn.
The rook on the seventh because now the king is super aggressive.
So rookie for king of six with major concrete threats like a mate threat.
So King G eight to put that on board.
Rook Tasteful rook check and mate.
So King G eight rook G seven check.
King H eight rook tanks.
C seven.
So gaining a tempo because now again rook eight and will be mating so black has to address that.
And black's pawns.
They're starting to fall off like ripe apples, so equal on pawns right now.
But the superiority of the pieces is apparent.
Rookie for King f6 again threatening to checkmate.
So check King E five.
Rook G six.
And now G seven.
Check.
We have King G eight.
If Rook takes G seven.
This is this is a one king and pawn ending here.
So for example, King IV seven, King C six, King E seven.
We will play King C seven here to hide this pawn.
And if King E six, King B seven here can be found.
King takes a seven, King takes the four, king takes B six.
And we've got loads of time to queen this pawn.
There's no interruption there.
So King G is played.
Rook takes a seven, rook g one king takes the five.
So this is a winning endgame.
We have King d6c2.
d5c1.
C seven, Rook one.
Rooks.
Sorry.
Kings six.
Rook takes a four.
And after six, the game ended here.
If the game continues with Rook dd four, then D seven.
This is crushing.
So, for example, King takes five and we're just going to go and improve on King position to see eight
and queen are pawn.
Thanks very much as example.
So the game ended on D six.
So this is an absolutely fascinating game.
There are many iconic games where Capablanca embraces what seems to be structural defects and more modern
positional grandmasters like Adams.
Not so much, actually.
There are some sometimes some technical downsides as we see here.
There was actually a technical downside of the backward pawn, but it required precision to exploit
that.
So Capablanca in this game managed to just he's playing the position ready and this is a very it's a
good position overall if we look at overall and what's happening here, that these these double pawns
aren't particularly weak and they're being dissolved here.
Black's trying to transition them to a backward pawn.
So black was banking on the backward pawn, perhaps, but otherwise White is brewing up an attack with
H five.
If black doesn't do anything, if black doesn't do D five.
White's got this attack building up with h5h1 and the H files dangerous.
So this was what seemed to be it should have been in a in a sense.
You can see Todd had been banking on this back with pawn.
But yes, what can the backward pawn be swapped to?
There are other advantages at play here, so it was swapped for this amazing King march into the opponent's
position.
Basically, we've traded a weak pawn to improve on King.
In the end games there are subtle end game, distinct advantages.
Capablanca showed time and time again like an aggressive king, like pass pawns, and they often outweigh
being material down.
Rook on the seventh locks down the opponent's king, restricts the opponent's king.
So yes, this is an absolutely brilliant concept, an inspirational one for me.
So I hope you enjoyed this.
And also check out my cover bank, of course, for more game examples.
This inspired me to check out Capablanca.
I've got two camera bank courses to check out so you might want to check out more positional games account
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But he's an absolute icon and it showed he's not afraid to take on structural weaknesses shortly after
an opening.
It's what you do with them after.
That's what counts.
Can you trade them for other advantages which are winning?
OC has so much.