FROM PAWNS TO KINGS - Chess Course chapter 8

well we will tell now the story of one of the great players who had chess because well, chess is nourished by this of his great players in this case it is José Raúl Capablanca, a Cuban, great Cuban who was born in the year 1888 was a child prodigy and who and came to Argentina had a lot of relationship with Argentina because in 1927 and he came to contest the title for Champion, to defend his title of World Champion and lost it in Buenos Aires with the Russian nationalized French

Pro that I want to tell in this same opportunity when White House was very young and i was just beginning to take its first steps and was already a very outstanding player and he was invited to play a tournament in Spain in San Sebastian in 1911 clear the masters of the time objected to that ju gara a chess player without a major international background and one of them was Dr Ossip Bernstein who stubbornly opposed Capablanca's playing for not having a record, but, well, finally the organizers managed to convince him played and what was the revenge of Capablanca and Guillermo

In the game with Ossip Bernstein Capablanca carrying the black pieces produced the game that was a beauty prize defeating Ossip Bernstein in that to say it in football terms it is as if we had won 5 to 0 we have the fulminant position that this Guillermo also gave rise to the myth that Capablanca and saw ten plays ahead but Capablanca with the lucid humor that the Cuban used to say when asked how many plays forward you see master?

And Capablanca said I see only one but always the best! Well we are at the climax of the game Capablanca goes with black and sets a trap for Ossip Bernstein which is delivering a pawn that we will reproduce then Ossip Bernstein takes the pawn of C3, Capablanca takes the horse of C3 You have to realize that here Capablanca has delivered a tower pawn by horse, tower takes the tower , tower takes the tower, and what happens here Guillermo?

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Well right now Capablanca uses a chess theme that is known as the Theme of the Mate of the Hall Is when the pawns prevent the King from escaping forward and a check tower will leave the King of Mate because he will not be able to go forward and he will not have how to cover the check that theme is raised in this game masterfully by Capablanca and makes a historical move that everyone remembers in chess and it's a move of Lady Lady B2 Delivers Her Lady because if the Lady takes the Lady , the tower would be located in the first row of white let's say in row one and give Checkmate then what would it be like?

Si yo me como la Dama, Guillermo Dama come la Dama y la torre al fondo del tablero el Mate del Pasillo conocido en Ajedrez como "el Mate del Pasillo" El Rey está en un pasillo tiene una pared adelante y una pared atrás y en el medio el Jaque de torre no puede ser cubierto Bueno y en esa posición cuando Capablanca entrega la Dama Ossip Bernstein se rindió Se rinde porque que puede hacer Bernstein en este caso?

Sí defiende con la dama la torre, parece buena jugada porque ahora la Dama está defendiendo la torre, pero Capablanca pensaba lo mismo tomar la torre, Bernstein no tiene más remedio que tomar la Dama porque ha perdido la torre y de vuelta a la torre da el jaque mortal al Rey blanco sólo queda cubrir con la Dama, pero al no estar protegida la torre toma y llegamos a una posición final es muy ilustrativa y de un Mate que se produce muchísimas veces en Ajedrez Osea que aparte de haber visto una gran partida hemos aprendido una lección de Ajedrez y una elección de Capablanca a su principal detractor Bueno Guillermo, vamos a seguir hablando de los grandes jugadores de la historia y vamos a hablar particularmente de uno de los máximos genios que ha dado el Ajedrez que es Robert James " Bobby" Fischer Los cordobeses del año min 1971 tuvieron la oportunidad de verlo jugar en Córdoba Yo no sabía jugar ajedrez en esa época y me lo perdí a Fischer una de las grandes tristezas de mi vida ajedrecística

But you learned to play or got excited to play chess for Bobby Fischer exactly good Bobby Fischer was in Cordoba playing in November 1971 I played a simultaneous at the Rivera Indarte theater, today Teatro San Martín against 20 players from Córdoba Won almost every match He made two boards with Osvaldo Buraschi and Carlos Salvi and lost to a Player Cánova of Catalan origin if I remember that afterwards he went to live in Santa Fe to Rosario Bobby Fischer was quite a character because he came from beating Tigrán Petrosián the semi-final for the World Championships in Buenos Aires and Fischer had already come several times to Argentina and was quite a character because they tell those who had the opportunity to dine in Cordoba Bobby Fischer asked for chorizo bife but at that time it is seen that the cut was not very fashionable then I brought him a entrecote and what they tell who had the privilege of dining with Bobby Fischer is that Fischer once his flesh ran out grabbed his bone and ate with Fischer's hands and another of Fischer's peculiarities, our friend Cancho Bosch asked him what opinion he had about Martin Luther King and Fisher just wanted to talk about chess and about the party he had lost with Cánova was a whole character Fischer died in 2008 in Iceland where he took refuge persecuted by U.S. for a series of unfortunate Fischer events against the government of violating some restrictions on playing in unbidden places and Fischer dies at 64, Guillermo The boxes on the board

The squares of the Board and dies in Iceland where a serious kidney disease is detected but since Fischer had a religion that prevented him from dialysis the diagnosis they give Fischer at three months dies because of that renal failure Fischer was one of the great creators of beauties on the board and one of the most remembered players in history Guillermo let's talk now of Emanuel Lasker what do you think of Emanuel Lasker?

One of the great personalities of chess not only chess player but, philosopher, mathematician, a man of Lasker culture is one of the great figures of chess not only I think he transcends Lasker chess besides being a huge chess player was World Champion and was the World Champion who held the title for 27 years retained the Title Lasker as World Champion but I will tell you a particularity Lasker befriended Albert Einstein and Lasker challenged Einstein's theory of relativity because he said that the speed of light could not be demonstrated in the void then he told Einstein that his theory had that skinny side, but well Einstein even in a prologue of his biography recognizes him as one of the most intelligent and interesting people he ever known as William said was a philosopher , was a mathematician and is more Lasker did two doctoral thesis of which were published in the journal Nature Era Was a multifaceted man and loses world title precisely to another genius who was José Raúl Capablanca in Cuba and another of the things also that it should be said that this man returned to play chess when he was suffering from financial problems

Ésto tiene que ver con los grandes problemas que ocasionaban a Europa las guerras mundiales este es otro de los extraordinarios jugadores que ha tenido el ajedrez y también le decían "el psicólogo" era como un psicólogo del ajedrez porque el hombre jugaba no ya as mejores jugadas sino que jugaba en contra del estilo del rival es una de las características que tenía Lasker que lo hace éste sin duda uno de los jugadores más extraordinarios que haya dado este juego