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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.