King Safety Is Paramount: How Capablanca Won a Queen Ending With One Quiet Move
The first pure queen ending of the series. Material was level and Capablanca's pawns were worse, but…
One Bishop, Two Passers: How Capablanca Won an Opposite-Coloured Bishop Ending
Opposite-coloured-bishop endings are famously drawn. Capablanca steered into one on purpose and won …
Create It, Then Use It: Capablanca's Passed Pawn Masterclass
A pawn majority is a passed pawn waiting to be born. Capablanca turned a modest queenside majority i…
King Safety Is Paramount: How Capablanca Won a Queen Ending With One Quiet Move
The first pure queen ending of the series. Material was level and Capablanca's pawns were worse, but…
The Transformation Doctrine: How Capablanca Won Without Capturing the Weakness
Capablanca attacked Rubinstein's isolated pawn all game, then gave up that attack on purpose to seiz…
The Endgame Capablanca Had to Win Twice: Steiner vs Capablanca, 1928
Capablanca reached a won ending, let the cleanest win slip with a natural move, and then had to win …Two Plans and a King: How Capablanca's King Won the Endgame
Capablanca marched his king into the centre the moment the queens came off, ran both endgame plans a…
When the Knight Beats the Bishop: Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1927
The mirror of the last game. Alekhine holds the long bishop, but with the pawns all on one wing, an …
The Weak King Decides: How Capablanca Zugzwanged Nimzowitsch
Capablanca beat the great theoretician of prophylaxis and zugzwang with his own weapon, aiming every…
The Bishop Outruns the Knight: Capablanca vs Vidmar, 1927
With the material dead level, Capablanca kept the bishop pair, traded into a pure bishop against kni…
Won, Lost, or Drawn: Capablanca's Masterclass in King and Pawn Endings
In a simultaneous display, with only seconds a move, Capablanca traded straight into a king and pawn…
Out of Thin Air: How Capablanca Beat Réti From a Level Rook Ending
In his revenge game against Réti, Capablanca won a rook ending with no material edge and no weakness…
Fewer Pieces, Mightier Pawns: How Capablanca Beat Emanuel Lasker
In the only game Emanuel Lasker lost at New York 1924, Capablanca gave up a knight for two pawns to …
The Knight Wheel: How Capablanca Won a Pawn by Circling It Like a Hawk
Capablanca beat Yates in 1924 not with a combination but with the Knight Wheel, sending a knight on …
How Capablanca Won a Rook Ending Two Pawns Down
In one of the most famous rook endings ever played, Capablanca gave Tartakower two extra pawns, marc…
Provention: How Capablanca Beat Atkins Move by Move
Capablanca beat Atkins in 1922 not with tactics but with provention, my term for prevention that imp…
How Capablanca Buried a Bishop and Won the Race
Down no material but effectively a piece ahead, Capablanca shut Bogoljubow's bishop out of the game …
How Capablanca Won a Level Endgame With a Dominating Rook
From a dead level rook and bishop endgame against Morrison in 1922, Capablanca dominated with his ro…
How Capablanca Beat Lasker With the Principle of Two Weaknesses
In their 1921 title match Capablanca beat the World Champion from a level endgame, creating a second…
How Capablanca Won a Dead Level Endgame With Two Plans
From a level rook endgame against three consulting opponents, Capablanca fixed a weak pawn, won it, …
How Capablanca Won While His Opponent Had the Passed Pawn
Black had a protected passed pawn three squares from queening, yet Capablanca won the king and pawn …
How Capablanca Won a Piece Without Capturing It
Capablanca walled White's bishop in with pawns, then played the whole ending a piece up while the ma…
How Capablanca Gave Up the Exchange and Won
Capablanca gave up a rook for a knight on purpose, played most of the game down the exchange, and wo…