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    Chess Fundamentals: Algebraic edition
    Chess Fundamentals: Algebraic edition
    Chess Fundamentals: Algebraic edition
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    Jose Capablanca's classic instructional manual 'Chess Fundamentals' first appeared in 1921, the year he defeated Emanuel Lasker for the world championship title. This handbook is packed with timeless advice on different aspects of practical play and illustrated by Capablanca's own games. Topics covered include first principles, planning, the initiative, endgame strategy, and much more. After capturing the world championship, Jose Capablanca was for a time regarded as practically invincible. However, after his upset defeat by Alexander Alekhine in 1927, Capablanca was never able to obtain a revenge match for the world title, though he remained one of the leading players during the 1930s.
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    Release dateDec 8, 2015
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      JOSE’ R. CAPABLANCA

      F I R S T P U B L I S H E D I N 1 9 2 1

      CHESS

      FUNDAMENTALS

      BY

      JOSE’ R. CAPABLANCA

      CHESS CHAMPION OF THE WORLD

      NEW YORK

      HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY

      LONDON: G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.

      Preface

      Chess Fundamentals was first published thirteen years ago. Since then there have appeared at different times a number of articles dealing with the so-called Hypermodern Theory. Those who have read the articles may well have thought that something new, of vital importance, had been discovered. The fact is that the Hypermodern Theory is merely the application, during the opening stages generally, of the same old principles through the medium of somewhat new tactics. There has been no change in the fundamentals. The change has been only a change of form, and not always for the best at that.

      In chess the tactics may change but the strategic fundamental principles are always the same, so that Chess Fundamentals is as good now as it was thirteen years ago. It will be as good a hundred years from now; as long in fact as the laws and rules of the game remain what they are at present. The reader may therefore go over the contents of the book with the assurance that there is in it everything he needs, and that there is nothing to be added and nothing to be changed. Chess Fundamentals was the one standard work of it kind thirteen years ago and the author firmly believes that it is the one standard work of its kind now.

      J. R. Capablanca

      New York

      Sept. 1, 1934

      Contents

      Chapter 7

      Illustrative Games

      Chapter 1

      Game 1 Marshall, F – Capablanca, J 1-0 45

      First Principles

      Game 2 Rubinstein, A - Capablanca, J 1-0 46

      1. Simple Mates 1

      Game 3 Janowski, D - Capablanca, J 1-0 47

      2. Pawn Promotion 3

      Game 4 Capablanca, J - Znosko Borovsky, E 0-1 48

      3. Pawn Endings 4

      Game 5 Lasker, E - Capablanca, J 1-0 49

      4. Some Winning Positions in the Middlegame 6

      Game 6 Chajes, O - Capablanca, J 1-0 51

      5. Relative Value of the Pieces 8

      Game 7 Capablanca, J - Burn, A 1-0 53

      6. General Strategy of the Opening 9

      Game 8 Mieses, J - Capablanca , J 0-1 54

      7. Control of the Centre 9

      Game 9 Capablanca, J - Teichmann, R 1-0 55

      8. Traps 11

      Game 10 Capablanca, J – Marshall, F 1-0 56

      Game 11 Capablanca, J - Janowski, D 1-0 57

      Chapter 2

      Game 12 Capablanca, J – Chajes, O 1-0 58

      Endgame Principles

      Game 13 Morrison, J - Capablanca, J 0-1 59

      9. A Cardinal Principle 12

      Game 14 Marshall, F - Capablanca, J 0-1 60

      10. A Classical Ending 12

      11. Obtaining a Passed Pawn 13

      12. How to find out Which Pawn will be First to

      Queen 14

      13. The Opposition 14

      14. The Relative Value of Knight and Bishop 16

      15. How to Mate with a Knight and a Bishop 20

      16. Queen against Rook 20

      Chapter 3

      Planning a Win in Middlegame Play

      17. Attacking Without the Aid of Knights 22

      18. Attacking with Knights as a Prominent Force 23

      19. Winning by Indirect Attack 24

      Chapter 4

      General Theory

      20. The Initiative 25

      21. Direct Attacks en Masse 25

      22. The Force of the Threatened Attack 26

      23. Relinquishing the Initiative 27

      24. Cutting Off Pieces from the Scene of Action 28

      25. A Player's Motives Criticized in a Specimen

      Game 30

      Chapter 5

      Endgame Strategy

      26. The Sudden Attack from a Different Side 32

      27. The Danger of a Safe Position 34

      28. Endings with One Rook and Pawns 35

      29. A Difficult Ending: Two Rooks and Pawns 36

      30.

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