Capablanca Destroys the London System Before it was an Opening (Kline - Capablanca 1913)

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d6 3. c3 Nbd7 4. Bf4 c6 5. Qc2!? Qc7 6. e4 e5 7. Bg3 Be7 8. Bd3 O-O 9. Nbd2 Re8 10. O-O Nh5 11. Nc4 Bf6 12. Ne3 Nf8! 13. dxe5 dxe5 14. Bh4 Qe7! 15. Bxf6 Qxf6 16. Ne1 Nf4 17. g3 Nh3+ 18. Kh1 h5! 19. N3g2 g5?! 20. f3 Ng6 21. Ne3 h4 22. g4? Nhf4 23. Rf2 Nxd3!! 24. Nxd3 Be6 25. Rd1 Red8 26. b3 Nf4 27. Ng2 Nxd3 28. Rxd3 Rxd3 29. Qxd3 Rd8 30. Qe2 h3! 31. Ne3 a5! 32. Rf1 a4 33. c4 Rd4 34. Nc2 Rd7! 35. Ne3 Qd8 36. Rd1 Rxd1+ 37. Nxd1? Qd4! 38. Nf2 b5! 39. cxb5 axb3 40. axb3 Bxb3! 41. Nxh3 Bd1! 42. Qf1 cxb5 43. Kg2 b4 44. Qb5 b3 45. Qe8+ Kg7 46. Qe7 b2 47. Nxg5 Bb3 48. Nxf7!? Bxf7 49. Qg5+ Kf8 50. Qh6+ Ke7 51. Qg5+ Ke8 0-1

[@reclusedoggo3513]

Will you be making videos on any other great players of past?

[@Monadshavenowindows]

Eventually.

[@reclusedoggo3513]

@@Monadshavenowindows So, will it be similar to Capablanca, like you're going over his games?

[@reclusedoggo3513]

Also, will you make a video on Capablanca proposed Chess Variant?

[@Monadshavenowindows]

@@reclusedoggo3513 The format will probably be similar (has my style of analyzing games been helpful to you?). Some players I have in mind for my next series are Bent Larsen, Smyslov, and Judit Polgar. But another idea I am leaning towards making a KZbin series on is great/instructive endgames.

[@Monadshavenowindows]

@@reclusedoggo3513 I wasn't planning on making a video on Capablanca's Chess Variant, but I can look into it.

[@reclusedoggo3513]

what's your thoughts on chess and memorization and opening theory as compared to times of say capablanca and morphy, do you think there natural talent out do players of today?

[@Monadshavenowindows]

I think you're asking two different questions here. First, I think memorization is quite unimportant in Chess. From my own personal experience, understanding the ideas of openings is far more important than trying to memorize things. If you memorize lines and don't understand the ideas or strategy then you're going to be destined for bad positions. Memorizing certain things is still useful though, perhaps more so in certain endgame positions. As to your question about Morphy and Capablanca: back then opening theory was almost nonexistent except for a few openings and gambits (and there was a different etiquette back then about accepting gambits, especially in Morphy's time). I think Morphy and Capablanca are two of the greatest Chess players ever and get unfairly judged because of the era they played in (perhaps similar to how people say Wilt Chamberlain isn't one of the best basketball players ever because his competition was weak). There's certainly no doubt that Capablanca is one of the best endgame players of all-time. I agree with Bobby Fischer's answer to this kind of question, that if Morphy and Capablanca were alive today and familiarized themselves with today's opening theory, it's unclear if anyone (including himself) could beat them. One interesting angle to look at their playing strength is through computer assessment (which is interesting, though I think quite limited in what it can tell us). Apparently there was an in-depth computer analysis of the accuracy of all Chess World Champions and Capablanca had the highest accuracy. I'll link the article talking about this: en.chessbase.com/post/using-che-engines-to-estimate-human-skill All in all, I think that the demands of the times dictated how Morphy and Capablanca approached openings, and they could easily adapt to today's Chess competition. I saw Hikaru say something recently that today's IMs would beat up on Paul Morphy playing in today's atmosphere, which is completely ridiculous. There are strangely two radical extremes that some GMs take: Hikaru's position and that of Benjamin Finegold (for example) who thinks Morphy is perhaps the strongest player of all-time. I am closer to the Finegold side than the Hikaru side on that matter.

[@reclusedoggo3513]

@@Monadshavenowindows But wouldn't memorization be helpful in case of you knowing the lines and the opening moves and how they have been played and you basically know what to play and what not to and after some time playing too much chess as GMs do they would have this memorized same go for players who have memorized the lines and openings carefully with the idea, i mean memorizing here meant in the sense knowing the idea but also memorizing the best positions to play in situations, which could have happened in past. On paul morphy and capablanca, honestly hikaru is very biased in that sense is he thinks all old players were bad, but there was a video of bobby fischer arguing for capablanca and morphy as the best players ever in terms of tact and genius and able to fight it out later, yes they had so little knowledge in opening theory, and fischer says that morphy, capablanca may get in bad positions in openings but later on they can get out easily with there tact, also he argued for capablanca as best player ever. This interview was in 2005 when he had seen kasparov and karpov played but people know he was biased against kasparov, also he mentioned in interviews that pre arrangements and memorization matter a lot maybe not as much as it did back then in 2005.

[@Monadshavenowindows]

@@reclusedoggo3513 Right. That certainly helps, but it kind of just comes with studying or familiarizing yourself with many Chess games (and playing the ideas out yourself) and some people have better memory than others. Unless you have some crazy photographic memory, these ideas of the best positions to play in certain situations comes from both study and play. Playing an opening and making mistakes is often the best way to learn, especially with analyzing your own games. Hikaru is an amazing Chess player, but his opinion about such things is not very well informed. Rubenstein, one of the best endgame players ever, is mediocre according to Hikaru.

[@benjaminreynolds5733]

Are you the original user of this channel?

[@Monadshavenowindows]

Yes indeed.

[@benjaminreynolds5733]

@@Monadshavenowindows I just saw some of your older videos on the channel and how they are very different than the videos you have now. What changed?

[@Monadshavenowindows]

@@benjaminreynolds5733 I am mainly focused on making Chess content currently.

[@benjaminreynolds5733]

@@Monadshavenowindows I just stumbled upon your video of the birth of calculus and I was just intrigued by what I found and I just wanted to see what else there was on your channel. So I'm now glad to hear that your back on the platform making content again.