In the final position at 4:24, I worked out that the spectacular ...Qh3 leads to a strong attack. Engine analysis shows that, while not nearly as good as in the game, or even one of the top three moves, it is still playable and should be easily winning.
There are 3 moves that lead to relatively the same end position, with either losing colossal amounts of material or getting mated. 1. ... Rd1 2.f3 Qh3! 3. Rf2 Nxf3+ 4. Qxh7 and white can't hang on much longer 1. ... Nf3+ 2.Qxf3 (If white doesn't sacrifice his queen for the knight, it's a forced mate in 12) 1. ... Bf3, where mato already showed us what happens :)
in 6:06 black could make a move Kf3+ and the if queen doesnt take, its going to be a checkmate. If it does, white is going to lose a trade queen to knight and later on the blacks rook to g8 cannot be stopped
What an interesting game. It looks like Capa is just getting slapped around, but his pieces wind up being very well coordinated. I couldn't believe how that entire could become unavailable to the queen like that. Another great video, Mato.
Here's Wikipedia on Capablanca: "He wrote several chess books during his career, of which Chess Fundamentals was regarded by Mikhail Botvinnik as the best chess book ever written. Capablanca preferred to not present detailed analysis but focused on critical moments in a game." That's the Mato way
Mato, Love when you do Capablanca videos man, suck a killer!! Your channel is the absolute best thing about youtube. Thanks for the videos, very well done sir!
Mato, at 6:01, rather than play the pawn to c6 to move the white queen, can black play Kf3+ either checkmating in two or winning the white queen? A nicer move than the defensive pawn move?
Hey Mato... Great channel and great videos im one of your subscribers and a usualy viewer of ur amazing videos... In this game, there is a better move for Capablanca than Bf3... It is Qh3! So if gxh3 then Rg8# If white didnt capture queen in h3 then Qxg2# ! What u think?
It is usually dangerous to develop your Q too early, without any real support. Capablanca (as Black) developed quite normally, and the Q soon found herself with no place to stay. Against Capablanca, this opening inaccuracy was almost immediately fatal!
Mato, love your comments :) On move 17 (the second pause), why couldn't we move black queen to h3? A white pawn takes a black queen. We move rook to g8 and have a mate i 2 moves.. Am I missing something? It would be a mate with a bishop and a rook.
Capa understood the Chess Concepts better . The thing to learn here is though Reti demolishes with a Force Capa organizes and activates after Castling Queenside . Capablanca 's every piece participates in the Attack for the annihilation.
I found the castling move, but missed the Bf3 move. A question on your suggested move Qd5, why c6 is considered as the response? Is there something wrong with Nf3+?
I got both moves but how should I guage whether it's the right move? especially when the follow up Qa3 has a lot of quirks (granted they work, but they're hard to find...
I also think it works. White must takes, otherwise white will lose his queen. So, after pawn takes knight, Rg8+, bishop blocks, rook takes bishop, king moves and then Qh3. Maybe it really doesn't work because Queen can take the knight...? But, come on, it is a winning position.
I was thinking about Qg4. Then after bishop takes the rook you play Na5 which defends the bishop now attacking the Queen and also now threatens mate with the queen taking on g2. Can someone tell me if this is solid?
+Xtravia9 White doesn't though. Rg8 is still massively winning and white can't capture the knight with anything but the queen or a forced mate occurs starting with Qh3. After Kh1 the best is Nd2 but this still incurs massive losses after Nh4, Nf3, Rxg2.
Capablanca played the suicidal Schleimann Deferred Defense, right? Especially after his 1924 NY Tournament defeat by Reti? Capablanca was certainly a Daredevil!
+vaishnav muralidharan Oh first glance, I think because f3 would save the game for Reti as is already ahead in material and gives him the option to play Rf2 (he wouldn't mind if the rook gets pinned by a future bishop on c5 as it would only even the game) and Qf1 and consolidate the king's position while finding time to get his other rook in play. Qh3 looks like a beautiful move though. I should analyze it further :)
Excellent game by Capablanca, I'm sorry to say that I did not see any of the moves. I think is because I only play blitz and in order to see those moves you need lots of time to think them through.
I disagree my friend. You have to be precise with your move and you have to think fast. # minutes is more then enough time to make smart moves. Now 1 minute game, that's where you win mostly on luck.
It's an illegal move because it would put the black king in check by the white bishop. Any move that results in one's own king being put in check is illegal. In this case we say that "the knight is pinned to the king by the bishop", or just "the knight is pinned". Pins where a piece is pinned to something other than the king do not prevent movement of the pinned piece but they discourage it.
I found -as I think- a better move than bf3 ,, Qh3 is deadly and there is no escape from it, cause if pawn takes h3 then Rg8 is leading to mate, and if f3 then again Rg8 threatening checkmate on g2, and after g3, Rxg3, and after pawn takes g3, Qxg2+, Kh1, Qg2#.
Hi...Mato..! I request you to post games of Capablanca (The Greatest). Pls...You posted Alekhine games (> 50 game) In your Playlist . And Capablanca's Playlist Has only 18 videos.. I request you to Post pls pls.. Thanks Mato..:) #TrueFan
The greatest? You mean the draw master...Capa's style was hated when he played..A "No lose" type of chess..Alekhhine was a much more exciting player..AA beat Capa 6-3 in a 33 game match...So I guess Alekhine is the greatest..
@@xxAutoFlowxx My friend, I completely agree with you on the fact that Capablanca lost 3 games to Alekhine. However, don't you think you research more to understand the lifetime score of Capablanca - Alekhine? Capablanca has a lifetime plus score against Alekhine. +9 -7 =33 Here's what Alekhine quoted, "Capablanca's planning of the game is so full of that freshness of his genius for position play, that every hypermodern player can only envy him." - Alexander Alekhine
Yes. This is the Russian-type of chess I like top lay. It is like killing a fly with a Atomic Bomb. Yesterday, we had a quick chess tournament with only two clases: Under 14 kids & Open (A & B Classes together). I always play at the B Class, A Class players are too good for us. I got two feeble opponents in the two first rounds, then the best player in town faced me I used the Catalan-Slav Gambit & defeated him. Finally, had to face another Class A young man & he defeated me using the Dutch Defense. I THINK YOUR VIDEOS HAVE MOTIVATED ME TO PLAY A HIGHER LEVEL OF CHESS & VOILÀ I ENDED UP WITH A $500-PESOS BILL IN MY POCKET!
Kf3 seems better because it is more forcing. Bf3 certainly works but is more subtle. What comes across most in these older games is the lack of information overload. No computer analysis, no internet, just games and books, and therefore more time to think. If I examine games I play on fics using stockfish 5, this computer understands linear calculating but seems hard pressed to understand the association used in the brain to calculate moves using sacrifice and positional understanding as seen in this game.
"Capablanca" no body better. He was the greatest!
No...I didn't find any of the killa moves! Capablanca is on a different planet than I.
In the final position at 4:24, I worked out that the spectacular ...Qh3 leads to a strong attack. Engine analysis shows that, while not nearly as good as in the game, or even one of the top three moves, it is still playable and should be easily winning.
that was my guess too
Capablanca is one of the greatest ! Thanks again mato.
My favorite grandmaster is definitely Reti. I use his player engine to analyze my games.
Thank you for your analysis
There are 3 moves that lead to relatively the same end position, with either losing colossal amounts of material or getting mated.
1. ... Rd1 2.f3 Qh3! 3. Rf2 Nxf3+ 4. Qxh7 and white can't hang on much longer
1. ... Nf3+ 2.Qxf3 (If white doesn't sacrifice his queen for the knight, it's a forced mate in 12)
1. ... Bf3, where mato already showed us what happens :)
just brilliant attack by Capablanca
in 6:06 black could make a move Kf3+ and the if queen doesnt take, its going to be a checkmate. If it does, white is going to lose a trade queen to knight and later on the blacks rook to g8 cannot be stopped
What an interesting game. It looks like Capa is just getting slapped around, but his pieces wind up being very well coordinated. I couldn't believe how that entire could become unavailable to the queen like that. Another great video, Mato.
Just amazing!
Here's Wikipedia on Capablanca: "He wrote several chess books during his career, of which Chess Fundamentals was regarded by Mikhail Botvinnik as the best chess book ever written. Capablanca preferred to not present detailed analysis but focused on critical moments in a game." That's the Mato way
the fun with with chess is the many suprises
and this was one of them
Putting the bishop on a protected square f6/f3/c6/c3 is a quite common theme nowadays. In Capablanca's year, this is outstanding.
Thanks Matojelic for the excellent presentation.
great game, great video. thansk Mato!
Mato, Love when you do Capablanca videos man, suck a killer!! Your channel is the absolute best thing about youtube. Thanks for the videos, very well done sir!
In the 2nd critical pos. (#17): what about Bxg2 instead of Bf3? And after Kxg2, Rg8+, Kh1, Qc6+,... is also winning for white, right?
In the position at 3:08, doesn't Qg4 save the rook?
If BxR, Na5 and white cannot save the queen without giving up the king.
Knight to f3 would have worked as well as rook to g8, I think.
Mato, at 6:01, rather than play the pawn to c6 to move the white queen, can black play Kf3+ either checkmating in two or winning the white queen? A nicer move than the defensive pawn move?
So at 6:01: 1. d5, Nf3+ leading to either 2. h1, Qh2# or 2. Qxf3, Qxf3 with a winning attack
Capablanca certainly was a great chess player.
Hey Mato... Great channel and great videos im one of your subscribers and a usualy viewer of ur amazing videos...
In this game, there is a better move for Capablanca than Bf3... It is Qh3!
So if gxh3 then Rg8#
If white didnt capture queen in h3 then
Qxg2# !
What u think?
What a beautiful game!!
Can you do the Reti- Capablanca game from the 1924 New York Tournament where Reti won?
It is usually dangerous to develop your Q too early, without any real support. Capablanca (as Black) developed quite normally, and the Q soon found herself with no place to stay. Against Capablanca, this opening inaccuracy was almost immediately fatal!
At 4:20 what if queen to h3 then pawn takes queen on h3, then rook to g1?
Mato, love your comments :) On move 17 (the second pause), why couldn't we move black queen to h3? A white pawn takes a black queen. We move rook to g8 and have a mate i 2 moves.. Am I missing something? It would be a mate with a bishop and a rook.
Superb game.
I didnt see the Bf3 move. Very nice game.
How good was Capa! I "smelt" 0-0-0 was a good move but missed Bf3, very strong conclusion!
mato if i have a time machine then i would take morphy poul in the capablanca time and want to a match between morphy and capa
"Morphy vs. Capablanca"? Irresistible force vs. Immovable Object.
Capa understood the Chess Concepts better . The thing to learn here is though Reti demolishes with a Force Capa organizes and activates after Castling Queenside . Capablanca 's every piece participates in the Attack for the annihilation.
Well that sure went south fast.
Great game.
I found the castling move, but missed the Bf3 move.
A question on your suggested move Qd5, why c6 is considered as the response? Is there something wrong with Nf3+?
I thought Bxg2 instead of Bf3. Close but no cigar!
I agree! More Capa!
Is Capablanca's Bf3 the only winning move?
Hi Mato! I want also to add a killer move except bishop to f3 its also Queen to h3..i think there is no defence also to this one..
I got both moves but how should I guage whether it's the right move? especially when the follow up Qa3 has a lot of quirks (granted they work, but they're hard to find...
Amazing
the queen can come to e6...... how to continue
capablanca the best chess player all of time
In the second critical position, Nf3+ it stills works or I miss something?
I also think it works. White must takes, otherwise white will lose his queen. So, after pawn takes knight, Rg8+, bishop blocks, rook takes bishop, king moves and then Qh3. Maybe it really doesn't work because Queen can take the knight...? But, come on, it is a winning position.
Rex Sergio You missed Kh1...!
That's the move I found, too. On my computer, Stockfish puts it as almost as good as the move played in the game. Either option is crushing, really.
I feel like Mato is toying with me when he asks for the "killer move" in that perfect voice! Plus I barely e er find the move...
I was thinking about Qg4. Then after bishop takes the rook you play Na5 which defends the bishop now attacking the Queen and also now threatens mate with the queen taking on g2. Can someone tell me if this is solid?
White wins after f2-f3. Capablanca's strategy prevents this defensive move (...0-0-0; Bxh8 Bf3!!), which makes all the difference.
Louis Morin More exactly ...0-0-0; Bxh8 Ne5; Qd1 Bf3!!
Louis Morin you're right, I admit I didn't see that
Hey Mato! At 4:02, can't the queen be sacrificed on h3? Then perhaps gxh3, rg8 check, qg4, nxg4, hxg4, then rxg4 checkmate? :)
actually no, that wouldn't work. whoops
Knight to F3 do the trick also.
Right? After gxf3, Rg8+, Bg7, Rxg7+, Kh1 and Qh3
Kh1 and it looks like white wriggles out of it.
+Xtravia9 White doesn't though. Rg8 is still massively winning and white can't capture the knight with anything but the queen or a forced mate occurs starting with Qh3. After Kh1 the best is Nd2 but this still incurs massive losses after Nh4, Nf3, Rxg2.
Just for another variation if people are looking, Nf3, gxf3, Rg8+, Kh1, Qh3, Rh1, Bxg2+ and no matter what white does there is a forced mate
Chess is an art
In the second "killa move" what's wrong with Nf3? Is it not winning?
It is. It's only slightly inferior to the move played, but both moves are easily winning, according to engine analysis.
Insted of bishop first the killer move was quinn to h3
i thought of Nf3
Before resigning what would happen if white king moves to h1
Nxf3 with mate on h2 to follow.
Xtravia9
...and if Qxf3 then Qxf1 is also mate.
Capablanca played the suicidal Schleimann Deferred Defense, right? Especially after his 1924 NY Tournament defeat by Reti? Capablanca was certainly a Daredevil!
Nice!
Tnks!!!!!!
the voce is ready to kill me actually.
At 4:11, why can't black play Qh3?
+vaishnav muralidharan say knight to h3 then queen takes, then rook to G8 check winning queen with bishop.
+bracken pops how can the knight move to h3?
vaishnav muralidharan Oh I miss read what you said never mind lol
+vaishnav muralidharan Oh first glance, I think because f3 would save the game for Reti as is already ahead in material and gives him the option to play Rf2 (he wouldn't mind if the rook gets pinned by a future bishop on c5 as it would only even the game) and Qf1 and consolidate the king's position while finding time to get his other rook in play. Qh3 looks like a beautiful move though. I should analyze it further :)
+vaishnav muralidharan After pawn take Q on h3 white Q can go to g4
Brilliant
Knight f3 also works!!!
Brilliant! Mato :-)
Excellent game by Capablanca, I'm sorry to say that I did not see any of the moves. I think is because I only play blitz and in order to see those moves you need lots of time to think them through.
Victor Valdez I don't see bullet or 3 mins blitz to be a game at all. The win is mostly based on luck than strategy.
I disagree my friend. You have to be precise with your move and you have to think fast. # minutes is more then enough time to make smart moves. Now 1 minute game, that's where you win mostly on luck.
at 1;47 why didn't black knight take white queen ?im new to chess
It's an illegal move because it would put the black king in check by the white bishop.
Any move that results in one's own king being put in check is illegal.
In this case we say that "the knight is pinned to the king by the bishop", or just "the knight is pinned".
Pins where a piece is pinned to something other than the king do not prevent movement of the pinned piece but they discourage it.
I found -as I think- a better move than bf3 ,, Qh3 is deadly and there is no escape from it, cause if pawn takes h3 then Rg8 is leading to mate, and if f3 then again Rg8 threatening checkmate on g2, and after g3, Rxg3, and after pawn takes g3, Qxg2+, Kh1, Qg2#.
Hi...Mato..!
I request you to post games of Capablanca (The Greatest).
Pls...You posted Alekhine games (> 50 game) In your Playlist .
And Capablanca's Playlist Has only 18 videos..
I request you to Post pls pls..
Thanks Mato..:)
#TrueFan
The greatest? You mean the draw master...Capa's style was hated when he played..A "No lose" type of chess..Alekhhine was a much more exciting player..AA beat Capa 6-3 in a 33 game match...So I guess Alekhine is the greatest..
+Richondo Fabiano I Totally agree with you. .But Capa also Best player at that time..and he had played some osum games.
@@xxAutoFlowxx My friend, I completely agree with you on the fact that Capablanca lost 3 games to Alekhine. However, don't you think you research more to understand the lifetime score of Capablanca - Alekhine? Capablanca has a lifetime plus score against Alekhine. +9 -7 =33
Here's what Alekhine quoted, "Capablanca's planning of the game is so full of that freshness of his genius for position play, that every hypermodern player can only envy him." - Alexander Alekhine
Beating Reti is no small feat!
I found Bishop takes G2 leads to Queen vs rook endgame funky is appropriate I guess
Yes. This is the Russian-type of chess I like top lay. It is like killing a fly with a Atomic Bomb. Yesterday, we had a quick chess tournament with only two clases: Under 14 kids & Open (A & B Classes together). I always play at the B Class, A Class players are too good for us. I got two feeble opponents in the two first rounds, then the best player in town faced me I used the Catalan-Slav Gambit & defeated him. Finally, had to face another Class A young man & he defeated me using the Dutch Defense. I THINK YOUR VIDEOS HAVE MOTIVATED ME TO PLAY A HIGHER LEVEL OF CHESS & VOILÀ I ENDED UP WITH A $500-PESOS BILL IN MY POCKET!
Kf3 seems better because it is more forcing. Bf3 certainly works but is more subtle. What comes across most in these older games is the lack of information overload. No computer analysis, no internet, just games and books, and therefore more time to think. If I examine games I play on fics using stockfish 5, this computer understands linear calculating but seems hard pressed to understand the association used in the brain to calculate moves using sacrifice and positional understanding as seen in this game.
I would have done Qh3. Isn't that a guaranteed mate?
White would then play P-f3. If black follows with R-g8, white would play Q-e2.
Here is looking at you kid
Capablanca playing f5 in the ruy lopez? Is this serious? Have you smoked some matihuana?
First one that I've guessed!
Tal will take a pawn with that bishop, :D
Special game....of course
didn't see that killah move
If White plays Qd4 after Bf3 to stop Qg4, Qh3 still wins for Black. after gxh3 Rg8+ Qg4 Nxg4, White cannot stop Ne3 mate
QH3 will do same
oh i see white bishop would be attacking the king
I guessed the wrong moves
he won from a lost position :)
Capablanca's castling move wasn't really that special, the rook was going down so it was pretty obvious and logical.
Amer Al-Hiyasat just stfu
Must have hurt to lose as white
...and now the obvious. Bwahaha.. There's nothing obvious about that move.
Quite uninteresting game. White played terribly and lost in a few moves.
Reti really played poorly in this one
Narrowc ross I agree. Usually in Mato's videos the loser does not play as badly as this.
Thumbs down on all videos of outdated games.