Capablanca Uses the EASIEST Chess Strategy Ever!

Did Capablanca really do nothing in his chess games? Well, sometimes he might have come close. This might be one of those games. Let me know what you think about this game from the legendary Cuban World Champion!

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[johnpender]

Capablanca wasnt called "The Invincible Chess Machine" for nothing. My favorite chess player.

[patrickfinley]

Alfred Kreymborg was among the top dozen or so chess players in the US around 1910, and was also a leading figure in the imagist and modernist movements in poetry/literature.

A lifelong friend of Carl Sandburg, Kreymborg was a leading American intellectual and cultural figure for the next couple of decades. Among his close friends and associates were Alfred Stieglitz the photographer, Man Ray, the Dadaist/Surreealist painter, and another Dadaist, Marcel Duchamps (Nude Descending a Staircase) who was a very fine chess player in his own right, and played on some French chess Olympiad teams in the 1920's and 1930's.

Kreymborg gave up chess completely a couple of years after this game was played, following a crushing and heartbreaking defeat by Oscar Chajes, who was one of the very few players anywhere to have scored a tournament victory against Capa. A K did return to the game about twenty years later, during the depression. He never regained the full strength he had in his glory days, but was once again bewitched by the spell of the game that had so possessed him in his youth. He wrote a wonderful short memoir, "Chess Reclaims a Devotee, " which I read as a young boy in the marvelous anthology "The Fireside Book of Chess" in the late 1950's or early 60's. Highly recommended.

Chajes, incidentally was the last player to beat Capa, in 1916 before the great man embarked on his 8-year undefeated streak which was ended by Reti at New York, 1924.

[bestosensei]

Great analysis. There is something to be said about a superior player just exchanging pieces knowing he'll win the endgame. It would great a very easy tournament style.

[shadeburst]

The good players seem to have a knack of, well not exactly seeing ten moves ahead, but placing pieces on good squares so that when the trading feeding frenzy is over those pieces are ready to get down to business.

[davidc]

Yes, pre-FIDE, the Grandmaster title 1:00 was first conferred on players by Tsar Nicholas in 1914.

[ripvangu]

can you slightly grey the screen when making alternative plays, so its easier to different between alternative game plays and the actual game

[kingsgambit]

It's not really surprising, to be honest. Most lower leveled players rely on their tactical capabilities. Trading off pieces eliminates complicated positions. Reaching the endgame is an unfamiliar territory for them.

[fbushphone]

Thank you for sharing this. Hope you can create more videos like this on Capa's earlier games, I think they illustrate lots of chess knowledge

[akaGumboStu]

Do we know what the time control was for this game? How long each player took deciding (or not) on their moves?

[alwaysinout]

Great analysis .. simple and clear ..thanks

[fethikhalfallah]

Capablanca was the early 1900s stockfish.

[johnjordan]

Just started this was great .don't

be scared to trade off

Iff u know what u doin love this one subbed

[SPLIFFZPUFFZ]

really enjoyed this breakdown and exploration!

[MrPhilsmithson]

Loved this thank you. A good lesson in how simple good chess can be.

[bengrange]

at 6:44, what was black's plan with the f4 square?

[baydrixnewzealandwarrobotf]

Great vid.. i found value and took away knowledge applied it and getting good results. great lesson! Who would of known😂 cheers ..

[JaredBrewerAerospace]

@6:09 I heard "exchange deez knights" in my head.

[bengrange]

can somebody explain why it would have been so bad for black to let white get his rook on the 7th? i.e. why black shouldn't take with the queen? around 4:20. Thanks!

[funnyperson]

“Doing nothing” is prophylactic moves. Waiting for opponent to compromise his position or blunder somehow

[cobeferraro]

Such a typical Capa game. Positional mastermind