The Rule of Three: The Candidate Move Capablanca Never Calculated
The fourth game in Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals is a loss he handed himself, and it teaches the o…
The Uncastled King: Why Capablanca Lost by Staying in the Centre
The third game in Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals is a loss, and it turns on the most basic rule in …
Structured Calculation: The Quiet Move Capablanca Missed
The second game in Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals is another loss, and it teaches the one habit eve…
Provention!: The Question That Cost a Young Capablanca a Game
The first game in Capablanca's own Chess Fundamentals is one he lost, and it teaches the most import…
Developed Is Not Active: Piece Activity vs Development
Marshall got every piece off the back rank and was still worse, because none of them attacked anythi…
The Square in Front: How to Play Against an Isolated Pawn
An isolated pawn's real cost is the square in front of it, which no pawn can ever guard again. Capab…
Material Is a Resource, Not a Plan: Two Questions When Ahead
This game teaches from both sides. Capablanca goes wrong first and hands Mieses the exchange. Then M…
Take the Outpost: How Capablanca Won by Owning One Square
Capablanca's first win in his own book. No combination, no crisis. He plays a modest setup, waits fo…
Whoever Attacks Wins: How Opposite-Coloured Bishops Beat Capablanca
The last loss Capablanca ever published. A pawn up with a great knight on d5, he was crushed anyway,…
The Crippled Majority: How Lasker Beat Capablanca on Structure
One of the most famous strategic games ever played. At St. Petersburg 1914, Emanuel Lasker needed a …
The Rule of Three: The Candidate Move Capablanca Never Calculated
The fourth game in Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals is his second straight loss to the same habit, no…
The Uncastled King: How a Young Capablanca Lost by Not Castling
The third game in Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals is another loss, and it turns on the most basic ru…
Calculation Structure: The Check Capablanca Never Even Considered
The second game in Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals is another loss, and it turns on the one habit hi…
Proactive Prevention: The Question That Cost Even Capablanca a Game
A brand new series on Capablanca's own Chess Fundamentals, and he opens the book with a game he lost…
The Knight Dances: How Capablanca Beat a Bad Bishop in the Series Finale
The sixtieth and final game of Chernev's book. Capablanca lures Reshevsky into a knight-versus-bisho…
Position First, Material Next: How Capablanca Won a Pawn Down vs Two Masters
A consultation game: Capablanca alone against two strong masters. He lets them win a pawn, centraliz…
Simplify, Then Strike: How Capablanca Untangled a Jam and Queened a Pawn
Eight heavy pieces crammed onto two files, and an advantage almost too small to see. Capablanca diss…
Hunt the Naked King: How Capablanca Beat Lasker With a Single Quiet Move
The last decisive game these two giants ever played. In a dead-level queen ending, Capablanca hunts …
The Minority Attack in Disguise: How Capablanca Won With Fewer Pawns
Everyone learns the minority attack as White, on the queenside, in a Queen's Gambit middlegame. Capa…
Win Because of It, Not With It: Capablanca's Passed Pawn Paradox
Capablanca built two connected passed pawns that never queened. Their whole value was the paralysis …
Three Directions at Once: How Capablanca Won a Level Queen Ending
Material was dead even and the books call it a draw. Capablanca centralized his queen so she blockad…
Winning From Nothing: How Capablanca Won a Full Pawn Down
A pawn down with an edge Chernev called hardly visible to the naked eye, Capablanca kept posing prob…
Welcome the Trade: How Capablanca Won Through the Exchanges
Menchik tried to force a draw by exchanging everything. Capablanca welcomed every trade, came out a …