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Steinitz,W Lasker,Em
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D67/01 |
Queens Gambit Declined: Capablanca
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1894.05.22 & 23 |
CAN Montreal, PQ (Metropolitan
Club)
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Annotations by Jackson
Showalter
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.Nf3 0-0
6.e3
Nbd7 7.Rc1 c6 8.Bd3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 Nd5 10.Bxe7 Qxe7 11.e4 Nf4
12.g3
** |
12.0-0 followed by 13.Ne2 looks
like
a satisfactory continuation. |
12...Ng6 13.0-0
** |
Here we prefer 13.h4 with
flattering
prospects of a kingside attack later. |
13...Rd8 14.Qe2 b5 15.Bb3 Bb7 16.Qe3 a6 17.Ne2 Rac8
18.Rfd1
Re8
** |
For the obvious purpose of
advancing
and exchanging the rather weak c-pawn thus opening the diagonal for the
bishop at the same time. |
19.Ne1 c5 20.dxc5 Nxc5 21.Bc2 Rc7 22.f3 Rec8
23.Bb1
** |
23.Nd3 permits of many exchanges
and
soon reduces to a probable draw. Black has thus early overcome the
slight
disadvantage of the move against him and the struggle for
points for
the ending has already begun. |
23...Ne5 24.b3
** |
Necessary to prevent the threatened
loss of a pawn by 24...Nc4, and at the same time keeping a hostile
knight
from a point of vantage at a4. |
24...f6 25.Rc2 f5 26.exf5 exf5 27.Qf2
** |
Black threatens to win a pawn by
27...Nxf3+
etc. |
27...g6 28.Nf4 Ncd7 29.Nd5 Qd6 30.Rcd2 Rc1 31.Ne3 Rxd1
32.Nxd1 Qe6 33.Kf1 Rc5 34.Qe3
** |
Threatening Rxd7 as well as pawn to
f4. |
34...Rd5 35.Rxd5 Qxd5 36.Nc3 Qc6 37.Kf2 Kg7 38.Ne2 Qd6
39.Nd4
** |
Again White was threatened with the
loss of the f-pawn. |
39...Qf6
** |
But now if 39...Bxf3 (neither
knight
can retake on account of 40...Ng4+) 40.Bxf5 with the better
game. |
40.Ng2 Nc6
** |
Why not 40...Bxf3 now is not clear.
Both players seem to overlook points hereabouts, perhaps under pressure
of time limit. |
41.Ne6+ Kg8 42.Bc2 Qe5 43.Ngf4 Qxe3+ 44.Kxe3
** |
After this a draw is the rational
and almost necessary outcome of the position. |
44...Nb4 45.Bb1 Ne5 46.Nd4 Kf7 47.a3 Nd5+ 48.Nxd5 Bxd5
49.Bd3 Ke7
50.Be2 Kd6 51.f4 Nd7 52.g4
fxg4
53.Bxg4 (Adjourned) 53...Nb6 (Sealed)
** |
Forcing another exchange of pieces
with a drawing certainty. |
54.h4 Bb7 55.Be6 Nd5+ 56.Bxd5 Kxd5 57.Nf3 Bc8 58.Ng5 h5
59.Ne4 Bf5 60.Nc3+ Kc5 61.Ne4+ Kd5 ½-½.
The Sun, New York, 1894.05.23
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24
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New-York Daily Tribune, 1894.05.23
& 24
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New York Recorder, 1894.05.24
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07.29
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