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…
How Capablanca Won This Endgame a Pawn Down
Playing Black against Kostic, Capablanca gave away a healthy passed pawn on purpose, went a full paw…
How Capablanca Marched His King Into the Enemy Camp to Win
With the queens gone, Capablanca stopped hiding his king and marched it the whole length of the boar…
How Capablanca Sacrificed a Pawn to Put Marshall in Zugzwang
Capablanca gave up a pawn to make his pieces active and Marshall's useless, until the great attacker…
When Capablanca Played Like Five Different Masters
Chernev called it one of the greatest masterpieces in chess, because in one game Capablanca plays in…
Three Moves Where Capablanca Was Wrong
Capablanca won this game, but the engine corrects him three times, and the position his opponent res…
Capablanca Was Up a Queen and the Game Lasted 31 More Moves
Winning your opponent's queen is not the same as winning the game. This king hunt shows what to do w…
Choose Your Endgame: The Master Habit That Wins From Move 19
Capablanca does not accept the endgame he is handed, he steers into a bishop-versus-knight ending an…
The Two Endgame Plans: How Capablanca Wins With Just One Idea
Two queen sacrifices, one romantic and one purely positional, and a single endgame idea that ties th…
The Move That Converted Reti: How Capablanca's Bishop Beat the Knight
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His Finest Endgame: How Capablanca Beat Nimzowitsch on Two Wings
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The Space Advantage: How Capablanca Squeezed a Team of Masters
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Mastering the King: How Capablanca Wins an Opposite-Bishop Endgame
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Four Against Three: How Capablanca Won a Textbook-Drawn Rook Endgame
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The Stabbing Sacrifice: How Capablanca Wins With Connected Passed Pawns
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Wing to Wing: How Capablanca Wins a Pure Rook Endgame
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The Seventh Rank Absolute: How Capablanca Punishes the Pawn Grab
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The Pawn He Refused: How Capablanca Wins With the Bishop
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The Slight Edge: How Capablanca Turns a Tiny Initiative Into a Win
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The Drawing Myth: How Capablanca Wins a Dead-Equal Rook Endgame
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