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TitleChess fundamentals
AuthorJosé Raúl Capablanca
Year1921
PublisherHarcourt, Brace and company
LocationNew York
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LIST OF CONTENTS

PART I

CHAPTER I

First Principles: Endings, Middle-game and Opennings

PAGE

1.
Some Simple Mates
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 3
2.
Pawn Promotion
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 9
3.
Pawn Endings
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 13
4.
Some Winning Positions in the Middle-game
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 19
5.
Relative Value of the Pieces
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 24
6.
General Strategy of the Opening
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 25
7.
Control of the Centre
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 28
8.
Traps
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 32

CHAPTER II

Further Principles in End-game Play

9.
A Cardinal Principle
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 35
10.
A Classical Ending
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 37
11.
Obtaining a Passed Pawn
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 40
12.
How to find out which Pawn will be the first to Queen
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 41
13.
The Opposition
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 43
14.
The Relative Value of Knight and Bishop
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 50
15.
How to Mate With Knight and Bishop
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 59
16.
Queen against Rook
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 62

CHAPTER III

Planning a Win in Middle-game Play

17.
Attacking without the aid of Knights
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 68
18.
Attacking with Knights as a Prominent Force
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 71
19.
Winning by Indirect Attack
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 72

CHAPTER IV

General Theory

PAGE

20.
The Initiative
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 77
21.
Direct Attacks en massr
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 78
22.
The Force of the Threatened Attack
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 82
23.
Relinquishing the Initiative
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 89
24.
Cutting off Pieces from the Scene of Action
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 94
25.
A Player's Motives Criticised in a Specimen Game
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 99

CHAPTER V

End-game Strategy

26.
The Sudden Attack from a Different Side
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 111
27.
The Danger of a Safe Position
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 120
28.
Endings with one Rook and Pawns
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 127
29.
A Difficult Ending: Two Rooks and Pawns
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 127
30.
Rook, Bishop and Pawns v. Rook, Knight and Pawns
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 138

(A Final Example of preserving Freedom whilst
imposing restraint.)

CHAPTER VI

Furthier Openings and Middle-Games

31.
Some Salient Points about Pawns
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 143
32.
Some Possible Developments from a Ruy Lopez
(Showing the weakness of a backward Q B P; the power of a Pawn at K 5, etc.)
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 146
33.
The Influence of a "Hole"
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 150

PART II

ILLUSTRATIVE GAMES


GAME
PAGE
1.
Queen's Gambit Declined (Match, 1909)
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 159
White: F. J. Marshall. Black: J. R. Capablanca.
2.
Queen's Gambit Declined (San Sebastian, 1911)
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 163
White: A. K. Rubinstein. Black: J. R. Capablanca.
3.
Irregular Defence (Havana, 1913)
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 169
White: D. Janowski. Black: J. R. Capablanca.
4.
French Defence (St. Petersburg, 1913)
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 174
White: J. R. Capablanca. Black: E. A. Snosko-Borovski.
5.
Ruy Lopez (St. Petersburg, 1914)
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 181
White: Dr. E. Lasker. Black: J. R. Capablanca.
6.
French Defence (Rice Memorial Tournament, 1916)
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 189
White: 0. Chajes. Black: J. R. Capablanca.
7.
Ruy Lopez (San Sebastian, 1911)
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 197
White: J. R. Capablanca. Black: A. Burn.
8.
Centre Game (Berlin, 1913)
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 201
White: J. Mieses. Black: J. R. Capablanca.
9.
Queen's Gambit Declined (Berlin, 1913)
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 209
White: J. R. Capablanca. Black: R. Teichmann.
10.
Petroff Defence (St. Petersburg, 1914)
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 215
White: J. R. Capablanca. Black: F. J. Marshall.
11.
Ruy Lopez (St. Petersburg, 1914)
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 221
White: J. R. Capablanca. Black: D. Janowski.
12.
French Defence (New York, 1913)
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 225
White: J. R. Capablanca. Black: 0. Chajes.
13.
Ruy Lopez (New York, 1918)
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 231
White: J. S. Morrison. Black: J. R. Capablanca.
14.
Queen's Gambit Declined (New York, 1918)
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 238
White: F. J. Marshall. Black: J. R. Capablanca.
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