Gentlemen's Brawl | Capablanca vs Schlechter | San Sebastian (1911)

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Jose Raul Capablanca vs Carl Schlechter
San Sebastian (1911), San Sebastian ESP, rd 9, Mar-06
Slav Defense: Quiet Variation. Schallopp Defense (D12)
1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 Bf5 4. c4 c6 5. Qb3 Qc7 6. Nc3 e6 7. Bd2 Nbd7 8. Rc1 Qb6 9. Be2 h6 10. O-O Be7 11. Qb6 ab6 12. a3 O-O 13. Rfd1 Rfe8 14. Ne1 Bd6 15. f4 Ne4 16. Ne4 Be4 17. Bd3 Nf6 18. Be4 Ne4 19. Rc2 Ra4 20. cd5 ed5 21. Bc1 b5 22. Nd3 f6 23. Nf2 Raa8 24. Ne4 Re4 25. Kf2 g5 26. g3 Kf7 27. Kf3 h5 28. h4 gh4 29. Rh1 f5 30. Rh4 Kg6 31. Rch2 Rh8 32. b4
In the early spring of 1911, fifteen chess masters were invited to the seaside town of San Sebastian, Spain to compete in a round robin tournament. (1) Each player was invited based on a previous result. Every participant had won either first or second place in a chess master tournament, or two or more fourth place prizes. The turnout was a veritable who's who of chess mastery: Established masters such as Tarrasch, Frank James Marshall, Carl Schlechter, Geza Maroczy, David Janowski, and Amos Burn, and newer stars like Akiba Rubinstein, Aron Nimzowitsch, and Rudolph Spielmann were all in attendance. The tournament also marked the European debut of Jose Raul Capablanca, who had garnered fame for defeating Marshall in a match. The only noticeable absence was the world champion, Emanuel Lasker. As a result of this method of invitation, this tournament is often considered to be one of the strongest held in chess history. Games were played in the Gran Casino from February 20th to March 17th. The time control for the tournament stipulated that fifteen moves must be played each hour. Initially, Ossip Bernstein had objected to Jacques Mieses, the tournament organizer, about Capablanca's inclusion in the tournament based on one match victory. Capablanca proved himself first by defeating Bernstein in the first round, silencing his protests for the rest of the tournament. He then went on admirably to win clear first in the tournament, taking home the 5000 Franc prize, as well as winning the brilliancy prize. Rubinstein and Dr. Milan Vidmar shared second place behind Capablanca, while Marshall took clear fourth. The tournament was a landmark both in its strength and in heralding the arrival of Capablanca, a superb tournament player with a long career of victories ahead as well as becoming future world champion.
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[@oliverdarnell7044]

Mieses was sick, so Schlechter felt sorry for him and offered him a drawing!

[@saratkumar2009]

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[@zulqarnain9955]

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[@jurjenvanderhoek316]

Schlechter was a topmost gentleman

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[@gxtmfa]

Yeah, I enjoy the history almost more than playing. It adds dramatic tension when watching an analysis

[@matthewzweig1557]

So instead of talking about how Capablanca didn’t care for opening theory, you used a quote about how he didn’t care for opening theory. Very cheeky, Agad.

[@joaofranco7366]

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[@cryptoorchid]

Mieses was there as a journalist. A photograph exists where he signed under his name. The German paper that shows your picture says, that they made mistakes in identifying the players.

[@michaeljanapin9528]

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[@cyrilogana4204]

But, who knows :D

[@richardfeynman5560]

I always appreciate very much all the background information delivered by Agadmator, it's very interesting to hear about Carl Schlechter as he is (or was) my fellow countryman. What a pity, that he couldn't become World Champion!

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[@puremercury]

Mieses organized the tournament, but he did not play in it.

[@kennyfa2874]

@@lacalleinvisible agadmator explained that in his earlier video

[@Socrates...]

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[@alexandruepuran]

Draws back then were fun! Loved this game. Thanks Antonio

[@weeooh1]

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[@spaceghost7807]

If you ever stop saying Hello Everyone! at the opening of your videos, that also would be a crime against Chess.

[@holdsnet]

This! Completely!

[@ericsbuds]

great story! it's amazing that so many pieces could be traded just to win a pawn. your insights into the games and alternate lines are just fantastic as always.

[@stanaklol]

This game sort of opened my eyes to the fact that Capablanca is also human. He played a couple inaccuracies in this game that could've lead to a difficult game for him. Up until this point in the other games he's played it's felt like he was a human engine.

[@ElmichaR]

@Saulius Savelis believe me he wasn't weak he out played his opponents, Kasparov said that capa was lazy for calculate long lines.

[@madhukef6267]

Actually I felt that all his moves were simple unlike tal's games

[@arnoldo8642]

@Saulius Savelis a simpleton nobody calling capablanca weak lol good joke . fyi even modern computers that have analyzed capablancas games consider him among the strongest of all time. look it up buffoon

[@droceretik]

@@arnoldo8642 Exactly. Some people Like Saulius Savelis, should engage their brain before commenting about chess geniuses. No one suggests that Capablanca was a perfect chess player but as you pointed out, engine analysis supports the belief that he was one of the best ever, if not the best. Weak would be the very last adjective I would use to describe Capablanca.

[@roberthansen5727]

@Saulius Savelis He was talented and lazy.

[@sweetwilliebloom]

Loving the chess history and analysis! Keep it up!

[@kilimanjarno]

"this rook if you gave it all the moves it wants it would still not find any purpose". Commentator brilliancy prize.

[@dhavalshah4496]

Misses was asked to come as a guest 😊 and there were playing musical chair in which schlechter left out 😂

[@zex613]

Appreciate the background stories... Top videos

[@ProFac992]

I'm a simple man I see Capablanca I press like.

[@sage4670]

I've just recently started watching the Capablanca saga, and I gotta say, this is the first time I've been happy Capablanca didn't win

[@OriginalThisAndThat]

6:02 "Pawn structure is somewhat messed up, but its messed up towards the centre so black has to be better here" - Agadmator

[@kittycalisonnypatch]

Capablanca and schlecter???? Rock on!!!!! Thanks agadmator!!!!!!

[@maximegorky2396]

The legend says that Shlechter was at the toilet

[@tudorsucaliuc7311]

Pulling a schlechter?

[@capablanca1412]

what does that mean ?

[@tudorsucaliuc7311]

it traces back to his match against lasker where he had a winning position then he blundered and managed to draw the wcc

[@sameetkhadka8438]

But not drawing it

[@gregoryzelevinsky9837]

Sameet Khadka not the game but he drew the match with 1 win each

[@skiperinoagadmaterino446]

Vast knowledge 0:00 First move 3:44

[@dimensionalblade2778]

Holy shet dude

[@youssefhaddouda3390]

Guess next move hh

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An agadmator video without skiperino is incomplete

[@giannisxalkis1965]

skipperino*

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giannis, u there?

[@CCVCreation]

"It would be a crime against chess if this happened" Made my day!! XD

[@Drew_goo]

Does he know theory?

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[@alexanderstoyanov7464]

I really like this game, the most enjoyable for me in the series, at least for now. And Capa almost got into serious trouble in this one

[@lucianadiacipriani5220]

Carl Schlechter was so strong. Greetings from Austria

[@derrickworkman4106]

@Agadmator, PLEASE analysis the final game from the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer"

[@fabianacuna7113]

Schlechter was such a gentleman, he drew the picture for the newspaper.

[@LuKanO84]

your channel is full of great contents! your way to describe the old champions is the best. if one day you'll feel ok with that maybe you could try to help the chess community to study the endgame as suggested by Capablanca, because i'm sure you would be an excellent teacher, and increase our vast knowledge ;) take care!

[@bigpoppa192]

I love the Capablanca saga!

[@onarovatis]

I know it's been four years since the video came out but Mieses is there because he organized the torunament. I don't know why Schlechter isn't there though

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Agadmator proves that you don't need to a champion for being a chess legend

[@ebwholesaler]

- " Cut the sandwich in half, it's a DRAW ! " (hungry spectator)

[@faridfares8338]

Rapport jobava Olympiad 2016 in Baku... Amazing game

[@francoisolivierdutrique4391]

For what i've read, schlechter and lasker agreed that for the challenger to become world champiom in their match, he would need a two-point margin. That is why he had to take risks in their last game.

[@nahueltoranzo9328]

You may not read this, but Mieses was actually the organizer of the tournament and the referee.

[@immersion5939]

in the lasker schlechter match the conditions where insanely in laskers favor, due to schlechters kindness. schlechter had to lead by 2 points to win the match, and even if he won lasker would still be worldchampion until schlechter would win a rematch. so in the 10th match with a score of 5:4 for lasker, schlechter had to go for a win if he wanted to even draw the match. Mieses hosted the tournament from San sebastian in 1911, but didnt participate. Schlechter did participate and took 6th place. he was know as the draw-king. i got this from a book i am currently reading, "the grandmasters of chess" from 1974.

[@jimmyjumbo2006]

In a game the other day, I thought I had pulled a Schlechter but it was just the way I was sitting.

[@anirbanghosh1217]

1:27 we need a "What if" series on Schlechter

[@skinnydoggyz]

looks like they took one person out from the photograph 2 videos ago, which this drawing seems to be modeled after, and moved marshall down from the railing into the bottom left corner.

[@MattiAkaYazz]

that story about mercy draw, Carlsen did something similiar in last blitz championship

[@nakulbam5067]

I cannot believe how antipositional Capablanca played in this game. First that Qxb6 move giving black the semi open a-file and then that f4 move giving up the e4 sqauare which was easily accessible to black's knight.

[@droceretik]

Do you think you could have beat him in this game?

[@nakulbam5067]

@@droceretik just because I can point out somebody's mistakes doesn't mean that I want to imply I'm better than them.

[@kyoopihd]

Yeah I was gonna say, someone had to take the photo! Er... draw the picture!

[@brendanward2991]

Schlechter was the only one who brought a camera, so he took the photo!

[@omahdezavalos]

Can you load this final position to a computer and commented to see if something can be found...

[@FormostPanda]

Magnus is like Capa in that they're both monsters in the end game.

[@charlock2614]

Yes

[@harrysharp3838]

he's back on the correct side of the couch

[@saratkumar2009]

first time, I heard "knowledge" divorced from "VAST" by Master Agad

[@rageagainstthemachineragea2497]

What is wrong with these 6 people who gave this video a thumbs down? That's very sad! I don't understand people in this day and age!

[@brendanward2991]

Mieses organized the tournament - that's why he's in the picture. Who is No 9 (bald, seated next to eyepatch guy)?

[@georgeanton575]

Vladmir Kasparov

[@billy2182]

Hoodie guy, minus hoodie.

[@vagelislemmon2988]

Maybe I'm wrong but I assume that black can play pawn B6 for C5 next to try for double attacks on E3 (Bishop & Rook) and later on A3 (Bishop & B5 pawn or even other Rook from B8). Or not moving the Rook and try to push pawn to D4 (triple attack on E3).

[@bruteacher]

Mieses is actually the organizer of the event, that’s why he’s in the picture. See here: www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=79292

[@piklubera1873]

Suggestion for next saga is Emanuel laskar saga😉

[@miguelangelillescashernand6197]

We need more history introduction :(

[@manaspant3757]

Jose the great

[@TheDiceMatrix]

Agcelsior! I was pulling for the old guy.

[@skaarphy5797]

Mieses got "mies" in it, which is German for bad, ill, or miserable. Schlechter got "schlecht" in it, which is also German for bad, ill, or miserable. Since it's a German newspaper, or at least in German, it is maybe possible that it was simply a mis-association of names while having been drawn from memory, or some such.

[@TheBodyatv]

Nice!

[@user-mb9cb8wo7l]

It would be nice if you could show us some interesting games from this tournament that weren't played by capablanca :)

[@johncater4643]

Apparently at the time of the newspaper drawing, Schlechter was Miessing.....

[@drfredostein4410]

Around like 8 or 9 minutes I thought Capablanca was going to lose for the first time. Agad kept saying that Schlechter was better.

[@crieliocriel]

crime against chess.. wow!

[@manigopal92]

I forget and forgive the openings 😜

[@wolfgangbrait3716]

What is my knowledge about the Schlechter-Lasker Worldchampionship is that the agreement was yes, he needed only one more win to be world champion, but in case of only 1 win more the price-money would have been split. In any other case the winner takes all. So Schlechter being rather poor tried to take the whole price.

[@speeder286]

Who else wants agadmator to do commentary on the Super Bowl?

[@droceretik]

Probably not his style as his intro and preamble would be still going when the game was over. I love his commentary style on chess but not for Superbowl.

[@marktaylor6959]

Superowl is bollocks anyway

[@marktaylor6959]

Bowl even!

[@karthiselva5787]

11:55 what about g4

[@shirishsharma8372]

No way! Jose.....

[@panda4247]

also, who is the gentleman #9 in the photo? No description on him. The mustache looks like Schlechter, but aside from that he looks bulkier and balder that Schlechter in Antonio's photo

[@john851231]

Please make some Video to Learn About Opening Chess. Your Video is enjoy to Watch and Easy to understanding.

[@yasielpuig9991]

That San Sebastian accent is pretty good

[@kennethlovering1454]

So I'm playing a 20+10 game on Lichess & we both have six pawns. However, he has 3 pawn islands [one of them is doubled] & I have 2: a,b,c & f,g,h. I remember Ol' Agadmator & his pawn island analysis....realize I can trade down to endgame and go for it........after he resigns, before the endgame ever began, I check stockfish & I have a 2.00+ advantage.

[@fbshiloh777]

i watched this at 3:25 in the morning after a long dishwashing shift. during my shift, I talked to one of the servers who had a knight tattoo'd on his arm, found out he was and is an avid chess player, and challenged him to a game eventually. Chess Rules Everything Around Me lol

[@helmutcardenas7206]

Can someone tell me what the thing with the sound is again ? I never notice anything differently

[@LilGril10]

Chess question : Which is your favorite opening? Also, do you like playing with/against French?

[@marin4311]

In this game, Schlechter was quite a tough player.

[@movdqa]

How about a video on Aronian's game with Nakamura on the next board making faces at the game?

[@mattUniversityofMinnesota]

Thanks for your work - wonderful job! Just wondering from a numbers standpoint whether you look back to see what your fans and subscribers are watching in higher volumes that give you the most views or "clicks"? It seems looking back just over the last week or so, it is as follows: Nimzowitsch vs Capablanca - 57K views Leonhardt vs Capablanca - 57K views Artemiev vs Nakamura - 62K views Kovalev vs Kuipers - 58K views Giri vs Carlsen - 124K views Carlsen vs. Duda 102K views Capablanca vs. David 63K views Tarrasch vs. Capablance 58K views Carlsen vs. Anand 120K views You can see that the numbers of views that are people watching the games of Magnus are far greater than the non-Carlsen games. These numbers/data are taken from 05:00am Chicago time, on Feb 2, 2019. Just wondering if you'd consider a higher number of games by MC? Cannot stress how excellent your work is, and still wonder if you're planning to go to St. Louis in August? Let's start a fund to raise this money! Signed, Huge fan of yours from Chicago! matt0098

[@vikramsrinivasan8176]

I would be doing injustice if I pass on without liking this game. Such a beautiful game.

[@arnaldosandoval453]

Agadmator, Would you imagine yourself with a time machine 😁

[@BrickWann]

In the position where they decided on a draw, couldn't black break through with b6 and then c5?

[@christofferore6285]

Heart of a champion. Schlechter always want a fair figth. Mby he felt it was a fluke or to easy win against lasker (not that it was) and felt like he wants a game to be proud of and mby he wanted to earn it in the best way.

[@danceswithstone]

Jacques Mieses organized the tournament and thus would deserve a spot in the sketch. As to where Schlechter was, I just dunno.

[@SlotMachineSergei]

In the spirit of _______

[@yechengg4815]

Does Capablanca now know relativity theory?

[@aayushjariwala6256]

6:36 how to get green color???!! Plz tell me!!

[@stefangoebel6041]

Question on the position after b4 at 9:21: what about the exchange sacrifice on a3? After Bxa3 and Rxa3 still two white pawns on b4 and e3 are hanging. I continued to play the position on the board and felt black is clearly better and likely winning. What does „the engine“ say? I do not have one...

[@joeb4142]

Stefan Goebel 1. Bxa3 Rxa3 2. d5 Bxb4 3. dxc6 bxc6 4. Rxc6 Ba5 5. f5 Rxe3 6. Ra1 Rc3 7. Rxc3 Bxc3 8. Ra8+ Kh7 9. Rb8 Bd4+ 10. Kf1 Be5 11. Rxb5 Bxh2 12. Kf2 Bf4 13. Rb4 h5 14. Rxe4 Be5 15. Kf3 g6 16. fxg6+ Kxg6 17. Ra4 Kg5 18. Ra5 Kf5 19. Rb5 h4 20. Rb4 Kg5 +1.08

[@mohamedissac8370]

can you please analyse the tata game of anand vs ding lerin ??

[@amiyeagle]

Yeh

[@GlorifiedTruth]

"I hate Mieses to pieces." -- Karl Schlecter, 1911

[@saleembaba5144]

Can you show the standings throughout the tournament?

[@richardsl3290]

@agadmator there are also only 10 names of the bottom row while there are 11 people. The number 9 is missing

[@richardsl3290]

Tho i dont think the 9th looks any like schlechter

[@damohanson5393]

Not only vast knowledge but a theory developer. Who knew?