This is the End | Capablanca vs Alekhine | St. Petersburg (1914)
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Jose Raul Capablanca vs Alexander Alekhine
St. Petersburg (1914), St. Petersburg RUE, rd 10, May-22
French Defense: Classical Variation. Alekhine's Folly (C11)
1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 h6 5. Bf6 Qf6 6. ed5 Bb4 7. Bb5 c6 8. dc6 Nc6 9. Ne2 O-O 10. O-O Rd8 11. Ne4 Qh4 12. Bc6 bc6 13. f4 Ba6 14. c3 Bf8 15. Qe1 Qh5 16. Rf2 c5 17. Nc5 Bc5 18. dc5 Qc5 19. Nd4 Rd5 20. h3 Rad8 21. Qe3 e5 22. fe5 Re5 23. Qf3 Qe7 24. Nc6 Re1 25. Re1 Qe1 26. Kh2 Rd7 27. Nd4 Bd3 28. Qg3 Qb1 29. Qb8 Kh7 30. Qe8 Rb7 31. Ne6 Bb5 32. Qc8 Re7 33. Nf8 Kg8 34. Nd7 Kh7 35. Qc5 Qe1 36. Qf5 Kg8 37. Qb5 Rd7 38. Re2 Qd1 39. Re8 Kh7 40. Qf5 g6 41. Qe5 f6 42. Qf6 Qd6 43. Qd6 Rd6 44. Re7 Kg8 45. Ra7
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The St Petersburg Tournament of 1914 featured the joint winners of the 1914 All Russian Championship and players who had won at least one major tournament. There were the veterans Blackburne and Gunsberg, established masters such as Tarrasch, Bernstein, Janowski, Nimzowitsch, Alekhine and Marshall as well as the World Champion Lasker and his two most prominent rivals, Rubinstein and Capablanca.
The tournament was divided into two sections. The first stage from the 21st April to the 6th of May was an all-play-all event with the first five finishers proceeding into the second stage which ran from the 10th to the 22nd of May. This second stage was a double round all-play-all with the scores from the preliminaries being carried over to the final.
Prizes amounted to 1200, 800, 500, 300 and 200 Rubles. Each non-prizewinner received 20 Rubles for every game won and 10 Rubles for every drawn game.
A brilliancy prize was being considered for Nimzowitsch vs Tarrasch, 1914 after the 5th round's finish, but more than 2 rounds later, it was awarded a 2nd brilliancy prize as the runner-up to the Capablanca vs O Bernstein, 1914 coup.
The main source for this collection was the St. Petersburg 1914 International Chess Tournament book by Dr Siegbert Tarrasch. ISBN 0-939433-17-6.
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agadmator: there's no way to even blunder with three connected passed pawns.
me: hi, I would beg to differ
Yeah, he hasn't seen me play
Arpit Nayak congratulations! You are an excellent blunderer
Just watch me!
Captures, Captures, Captures!
The Lasker-Rubenstein debate comes up so much at my local bar, there’s now a sign prohibiting it
I would very much like to know that where this bar is.....?
It would nice of you if you can share bar's location!
@@kashishmistry4804 I think he is joking.
@@NetConsole obviously not man
That should be a great bar 😅
We loved your coverage of 1914 tournament of St. Peterburg and last part of this video too. And also your great efforts to make it more interesting and informative thanks allot
agree 110%
Usually don’t like people speaking for me but yeah
St. Peter*s*berg
@@shanathered5910 Thanks for correction
16:10 -- In 1914, the value of the ruble was approximately 50c US, which was then on the gold standard at $20/1ozAu. A ruble was therefore 1/40th oz Au. The first place of 1200Ru(1914) is thus equal to $39,000 March 4, 2019 dollars. As second-place finisher, Capablanca took home $26,000.
$0.514 actually. See my comment above. :) Also this nice table at www.cyberussr.com/hcunn/gold-std.html#russia
I had result spoiled by this comment
I get a very different result. The link below claims one ruble was worth 0.7774 grams of gold, which means it was worth 0.0486 ounces. RUB1,200 x 0.0486 = 58.3 Oz of gold, which is worth USD75,800 today.
www.pravdareport.com/russia/123506-golden_ruble/
@@michaelvanzyl9418 Serves you right for reading comments before watching the video.
Value in gold vs value in dollar. Value of 1200ru to year 1914USD times inflation to 1019 is ~$15,500.
14:14 Agadmator: There is no way to even blunder
Me: Hold my beer
Proceeds to move the white rook to a6
Eccentric Horse11 wow what a move
Outstandig move
In the spirit of Mikhail Tal@Donald Trump
what's the tactic here? :P
"I should pin the d6 rook so I can take a pawn and not lose a tempo by checking the black king" ez pz
Alekhine looks like a guy who would have made a great Bond villain. His picture on Wikipedia? Forget about it!
True that, but I can also see him fighting Harrison Ford in the vicinity of an idling airplane.
His character would even match, he was an utter douchebag, lying douchebag to that.
Only Bobby Fischer could best him on chess asshole scale.
In the spirit of Mikhail Tal 🍻
To Mischa...🥃
@agadmator you should sell a shirt saying that
I enjoyed the reading of the letter. You are welcome to please share extra readings from your extensive knowledge. I watched all the way to the end.
Paul DeCamp You are an excellent subscriber.
Antonio: If you played Kg8...
Me: Nooo
Antonio: ...then you blundered, g6 is the best move.
Me: Ayyy
I was cheering for Capablanca so much :( Antonio, you are better then any TV show on any TV station at the moment :) Thank you so much for this hard and great work!
'there's no way to even blunder with three connected passed pawns'
me: hold my beer
😂😂
My friends and family constantly ask me about the 1914 chess tournament. I can finally answer
I'm currently writing my thesis and your mid afternoon Capablanca's saga video is what keeps me going, thanks agadmator
A big shout out to the parents of Agadmator! He has made a major contribution to the chess world! In 2018. Instead of coming up with a litany of excuses, Carlsen crowns Caruana as the Co-World Champion in classical time control.
Man, you're a real story teller!
I love it !!
@agadmator 1 ruble in 1914 was around 777 rubles in todays equivalent, so 1200* 777 = 932,400 rubles today and that is around 15000 USD. Again, this is an estimate, but we can already see that chess was important with such high value prizes.
Thank you
Loved the suspense of not telling us that its Laskers' tournament!
I just felt it was coming !
Thank you very much for your priceless contribution to the chess world, Antonio. You are by far the greatest chess commentator on TH-cam and the dedication and enthusiasm with which you cover both classic and modern games and tournaments is beyond compelling. Thanks to you many of us have regained a passion for chess that had been dormant for years or even decades, and I do not doubt that you have also brought many new people to the exciting world of chess. It has been several months now since I have been accompanying my breakfasts (those that are leisurely at least) with one or more of your videos. The incredible constancy with which you upload your videos allows me this simple yet highly constructive pleasure, not to mention the vast chess knowledge that I have collected during this time. You also have the best TH-cam community that I have ever been a part of, and that is completely your own merit. I hope your channel and your contribution to chess will go on for many years.
I can not more agree with you
I am also one of those who have returned to take interest in these chess games 🎉🎉
#suggestion continue with the old games..I’ve realized you haven’t done #saga of 1946 and 1951 featuring Keres,Bronstein and Botvinnik
Lasker deserves his own saga
He does indeed.
Totally. We are entitled to it.
Morphy first
This was a magnificent journey you took us on for the 1914 St. Petersburg tournament! I couldn't wait for the next 1 to come. Great stuff! 😎
Lasker said of Paul Morphy:
"Paul Morphy was the greatest chess player that ever lived. Every student of the game, who has delved into the stories of the past, realizes that no one ever was so far superior to the players of his time, or ever defeated his opponents with such ease, and no one ever offered knight odds to the men who considered themselves his equal."
Comparing players of different eras is pointless, because chess theory evolves. The only meaningful comparison is how dominant a player was during their own era. On that basis, it's not even close, Morphy wins, hands down.
Thanks antonio aka agadmator for reading the whole capas msg
I listened every word ...
Like i m in 1914 ...& hearing that lol :) ty
It was like watching the tournament live.all that enthusiasm and suspense..i wish the saga never ends..
Listening to The Prodigy - Breathe while watching the start of this video. I started to drift into thoughts of Capablanca's struggles at the chessboard; visualising to myself Jose closing his eyes and taking a breath while sitting behind his pieces. I really love that song - it carries many good memories.
Casting a light through your death. I remember Keith Flint.
It's ok to wait and put the saga on hold until the book comes, I pray it'll arrive. Hopefully you did took up an express courier service to deliver it to you.
An excellent subscriber knows precisely when “it’s in this position that Alekhine...”
Where’s my mom to see her son!?
I guess you could buy a nice dacha with the prize money for the first place. And sume mujiks to go with it...
Thank you so much, Antonio, for a great saga and making a beautiful half-month for us all.
And also improving our vast-vast knowledge, sorry about that, vast knowledge only...
Thanks a lot for the info. You don’t know how many bar fights I’ve gotten into over the 1914 tournament in St. Petersburg.
Loving these sagas, hope to see Morphy soon
Amazing, informative coverage of the 1914 tournament of St. Petersburg.
Capablanca fun to see his games thanks.
"Interesting move by Lasker" love it. TY Mr.Agadmator
Thanks for the excellent analysis of Capablanca's game and thanks for the link to Leko's game.
I wanted Alekhine to open up his double barrel Rook shotgun.
Haha. POW POW
Haha. POW POW
I had no idea that Capa was so toxic. Not being able to acknowledge and congratulate your opponent is a characteristic of lesser people. Lasker was 46 years old when this tournament took place and Capa should have the courage to accept his defeat and give him the credits.
Its incredible how much work you put into these. Thank you !
Great video Agad, please continue Alekhine saga after the Capablanca saga. Always enjoyed the attacking style of future champion, Alexander Alekhine.
Loving going back though this back catalogue of gems!
Thank you a lot agadmator .
You're changing lives here.
Loved the Capablaca saga.....modern chess will seem dull compared to this brilliancy.
There can hardly be a better match-up to finish a tournament than Capa vs Alekhine
Thank you Antonio for reading and explaining the paragraphs
Great coverage of the tournament. You are an excellent presenter of chess tournaments.
I found g6, not because im amazing or anything (which I am, but in this case it's not how I found it) but simply because of the thumbnail... I excel in excellence
thanks for showing the book. reading his own words makes it more real.
Thank you for the Capablanca series!!!
The Leko mind is impressively plastic, the general population freeze up when assessing risk over benefit. At the most critical moment Leko wanted to open up the queenside, until he found the 2 knights would be better centralized. I had the sense, his thinking could move on to better ideas because a familiar arcane position had previously emerged from some dusty archive in the chess library - this is how the past can sometimes give comfort. Long may the agadmator epic adventures continue.
Hey Agadmator, I love your content and would say I am an excellent subscriber. I was hoping you could maybe show more games where certain opening lines were first used. For example if you could do a video on the first time the sicilian was used or something like that would be super cool. #suggestion
LOL: "I kinda like your channel, and you're okay, but I will let you know that I'm an _excellent_ subscriber."
I like when you had the rating for each player
love the 1914 tournament of St. Peterburg saga...need more of this from the capablanca book..
Thank you for uploading again!!
16:10 Both rouble and the dollar were on the gold standard back in 1914. The rate was $1= ₽0.514, meaning that the first prize of ₽1,200 amounted to $616. Adjusted for inflation, this seems to be $15,500 (today’s value).
Casablanca sounds like a bad gentleman,he couldn't accept that he lose and congratulate opponent,but rather he choose to excuse himself by bad health and discredit Lasker's skill. He is a great chess player,but not a great sportsman(it reminds me a bit of Fisher)..
Capablanca was mistreated by Marshall slightly (with the little fiasco with the USA ch'ship), a lot by Lasker (who avoided a WC match against Capa like it was the cholera) and Alekhine (who ran away with the title to deepest and most obscure cave he could find never to respond to a tweet or a cable again). At the moment of the letter in the video Lasker had already been avoiding Capa for a good couple of years... All in all, he was very well behaved and quite balanced, I'd say...
Also.. in the return math between tal and botvenik tal was quite badly sick but still played the hole mach.... And lost it
He sounded like a heavyweight boxer explaining he lost the fight because of illness.
@@angelborregocubero2241 all i heard was excuses
@@angelborregocubero2241 Yes,some of this is true(even though I think it's a bit exaggerating), but nevertheless in their match on this tournament, Lasker clearly outplayed Capa,he played very good chess, and Capa should congratulate him as a gentleman and sportsman..
Excellent,Saga! It's like sugar, addictive It was a great game , one mistake and Alekhine is lost. The Final standings, Lasker, Capa and AA . the champion and the next two champions..The Capablanca letter very insightful. Big ego, a trait of a champion.
*Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering. ¥*
Those too serve who only stand and wait.
this may be the end of capablanca saga.....
But no end can ever be there to agadmator's chess channel
Precisely😊
Three connected passed pawns are indeed very fast pawns
21:50 Interesting move by Lasker
*lol*
Proof that Lasker cheated. He snuck a move into Capablanca vs Alekhine.
So what is the idea here?
I'm enjoying this series while on quarantine, I can't express how grateful I am agad
Agadmator, thank you! I am really enjoying your videos. Most of TH-camrs already using wide format videos, as nowadays phones have ratio 18:9. So, to keep you up to date with other TH-camrs, I suggest you to do your videos in wider format( I think most of fans will appreciate that). For new space I suggest put moves of the game or just put bigger picures of players.
Please, if you take my suggestion, say hello to Kazakhstan!
Wish you all the best!
I'm an excellent subscriber!
Very nice tournament.. Would love to see lasker's games in lasker saga
Hey Mr. Agamator , will you show a game with fried liver attack, it would be the greatest treat for player like us who often play Italian or two nights, Thanks again for your huge contribution to chess world
Thank you for these awesome videos
Nice videos you are getting better and better. Just avoid the really short videos 15 minutes or less is not enough time to warm up :)
aww man when you showed the results I was so happy as I looked at the first part panel 14:40
"he wears them down by constantly pressuring them" Sun Tzu
The Taliban motto. Seriously.
@@emsnewssupkis6453 im pretty sure the art of war was written beforer the Taliban was formed and in this context it refers to Capa..Where does your info come from?
@@leeherbie7840 This is called 'joking'. And the Taliban never read the book, probably, it has been their 'tactic' since ancient times when China kept invading not to mention, Alexander the Great. This goes back over two thousand years, after all.
This is the Afghanistan tribes I am talking about, BTW.
i LOVE the new tournament idea!!!!!
I wish every day that I could be at a bar when my friends ask me "How come Akiba Rubinstein had 5 points and Lasker had 13 and a half? -I mean, Lasker wasn't SO much better than Rubinstein..."
Not your typical bar conversation :)
Agadmator : three connected pass pawns it will be impossible to even imagine about White losing this game
Me: *slowly closes youtube with a tear in the eye*
It's surprising how modern these players look. I think they could blend in with our modern world.
Capablanca: *has a knight on e2 and e4*
droceretik: lOoKs LiKe MoDeRn ChEsS
Very enjoyable history lesson. thank you.
I love this channel!
The hero’s journey requires a blunder by the hero to teach them a lesson that is required to become stronger & eventually prevail in the end.
I fuckin love this guys best chess personality for sure
Jose the 'goat' capablanca😊
Finally. The correct pronounciation of Alekhine. "Al-e-Yekkin"
A remarkable game by Capablanca!
Calculating the value of the prize is not a simple matter. There are several ways to go about it. The ruble of that time was a metal coin either of gold, silver or platinum. Most common was the silver ruble which had 18 grams of silver. This means the first prize was equal to 21600 grams of silver. Today the price of silver is 0.48 USD per gram giving a current value of US $10368 for first place using the silver ruble. However, paper rubles were also used and were pegged to gold and worked out to about US$0.50. That gives a rough value of $600 for first place. The buying power of that $600 now could range from US $25,000 to US $60000 depending on what set of items one is looking at.
I think it's safe to assume that we are talking about the face value of the ruble coin not the melted down value when calculating the current value of 1200 rubles.
your video's helped me get into chess and learn how to play. Thank you, you are an excellent content creator :)
What a great series of games.
Beautiful game
Wonder why Agadmator is the best TH-camr??
Go to 17:40
So sad the tournament won't be something like 10+0 or at least 5+0. I can see myself facing the same problem as Ivanchuk, I will always be in time trouble.
Yeah that's my issue too. 5 is pushing it, but I understand why he wants shorter time controls.
In 1914 1 USD = 1.94 RUB. So the first prize was around 600 USD. Which adjusted to inflation would be 15 600 USD today. Pretty neat prize.
in 1914, a liter of Rasputin's vodka cost one ruble or a concert grand piano of 200 rubles.
14:08 fastest thing ever recorded in history
Yes I am entertained by all the gold conversions but those that said the conversion of 1914 rubles to today’s and then to dollars are correct. It was roughly $15,300 today
I think o found conclusive evidence, 1 rub from 1914 is about 29$ of today so with prizes ranging from 5800$ to 34800$ it was a pretty important event
Dude is just like... Not caring his health but loves chess...
Beautiful game.
Great video as always! One question: The crosstable suggests that Lasker lost against Bernstein, not Janowski. Am I seeing it wrong?
Marluck I see the same thing
A gold ruble had about half the content of gold of a gold dollar in 1912. We can estimate that the champion made about $600 gold dollars. Quite a significant amount; about the price of a luxury car.
Woo hoo, bonus videos!!
plot twist: Lasker wins the Capablanca saga. Well done... I did NOT see that coming. I enjoyed this series and of course would love to see Lasker v Marshall if you do it!
Hey Agad, when are the hearts going to be distributed, patiently waiting for mine😀
This is the end, beautiful friend, the end.
Let me assure you, Agadmator, I certainly could blunder away the 3-passed pawn endgame!! LOL.
You tricked us Agad!😱
I really enjoy your videos man, keep up the great work. Also, set up a venmo it's a lot easier to donate that way for me and I'm sure others as well!
1200 Rubles in 1914 was approximately 2400 USD in 1914. Meaning if we convert USD from 1914 to USD in 2019 it would be around $60,000