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Adrian Michalchisin:

Capablancas method of
realization

Realization is very important part of the
game, where juniors have usually a lot of
technical problems.
The Great Capa was one of the most finest
players in the history of the game. His
games are extraordinary instructive and he
left for future generations few very
important and simple tips.
He teached, that to realize the extra
exchange in the simplest way, you have to
try to sacrifice it back, winning one pawn.
Then realization of extra pawn is usually
much easier, than realization of exchange.
Let us see how this method was used in
practice. And we can start, naturally with the
game of Rules author.

Capablanca J. R. : Janowski D.
New York 1916

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It seems, that Black Knight d5 and pawn for
exchange keep the strong blockade. But
White is able do destroy it.
49.Re5! Bf6 50.Red5! cd5 51.Rd5 Ke8
52.Rb5
Now White wins a pawn and his Rook is
more active than Black.
52...Rd7 53.Rb4 Kf7 54.Rb6
Probably better was to try to transfer into
Rook endgame, where White Rook would
be extremely well placed. 54.Kf3.

54...Bd4 55.Rd6
It seems to be correct realization is transfer
into Bishops endgame.
55...Rd6 56.Bd6 Kg6 57.Kf3 Bf6 58.Bf4
Kf7 59.Ke4 Ke6 60.Be3 Be7 61.g5 Bd8
62.Kf4 Bc7 63.Kg4 Be5 64.Kh5 Kf7
65.Kh6 Kg8 66.Bb6 Bc3 67.Kg6 Bd2
68.Kf6 Bc3 69.Ke6 Bd2 70.g6 Bc3 71.Kd5
Bd2 72.Bd4 b5 73.Ke4 b4 74.Be3 Bc3
75.Kd3 Be1 76.Bd2 Bf2 77.Ke4 Bc5
78.Kd5 Be7 79.Kc4 Kg7 80.Bb4 Bd8
81.Bc3 Kg6 82.b4 Kf5 83.Kd5
Here Janowski resigned, but years later Yuri
Averbach found the drawish method here!
83...Kf4 84.b5 Ke3 85.Kc6 Kd3 86.Be1
Kc4 87.Bf2 Ba5 88.Bb6 Be1 89.Bc7 Bf2
1:0.

Przepiorka D. : Gruenfeld E.
Debrecen 1925

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With the extra exchange, according to great
Capablanca, the most natural way to win is
to sacrifice exchange back, winning some
pawn. It is necessary to prepare correct
pawn end transfer.
93.e4 Nf7 94.Kg4 Kg6 95.f4 gf4 96.Kf4
Kf6 97.e5 Ke7 98.Kg4 Kd7 99.Rb7 Ke8
100.Rf7! Kf7 101.Kh5!
It is classical outflanking manoevre.
101...Kg7 102.Kg5 Kf7 103.Kh6 1:0.

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Reshevsky S. : Smyslov V.
USA - URS (radio m)1945

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Bishop pair and its control of all squares
around looks unbreakable, but with
exchange sacrifice Smyslov uses this fact,
that White king is too far from the King
flank.
64...Re4! 65.fe4 Ke5 66.h4 Ke4
Another way was 66...gh4 67.Bh4 Ke4
68.g5 f5 69.Kc2 g6 70.Kd1 Kf3 71.Kd2 Kg4
72.Be1 Nh3 73.Ke2 Ng5.
67.hg5 fg5 68.Kc4 Kf3 69.Be1 Kg4 70.Kd4
Kf3 71.Ke5 g4 0:1.

Lombardy W. : Fischer R.
New York 1960

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Fischer has exchange for one pawn, but the
best way for win is to return this exchange
back.
30...Rc3! 31.bc3 Re5 32.Kd2 Re1 33.Ke1
Kd5 34.Kd2 Kc4 35.h5 b6!
Preparing the far passed pawn, which easily
decides the result of this pawn end.

36.Kc2 g5 37.h6 f4 38.g4 a5 39.ba5 ba5
40.Kb2 a4 41.Ka3 Kc3 42.Ka4 Kd4
43.Kb4 Ke3 0:1.

Gelfand B. : Morozevich A.
Moscow 2013

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Very interesting way in middlegame-to
return exchange and to obtain dangerous
passed pawn.
18.Rf6! Bf6 19.Qf6 Qe3 20.Rf2 Qd3
21.Qd6 Bf5 22.Qc5±

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White has changed the overall picture: he
returned the exchange, but won a pawn and
has a good winning chances. All according
to Capablanca rule!
22...b6?!
After 22...Rc8 23.Qa7 Re8 24.Kh2!
(24.Qb7? Qd4!) 24...Qc4 25.Qb7 Qd4
White's advantage is preserved only by
26.Qb5!, Golubev.
23.Qc7 Rc8 24.Qa7 Qe3 25.d6!+– Qd4
After 25...Qc1 the simplest is 26.Kh2! Qe3
27.d7 Qf2 28.dc8Q Bc8 29.Qb8+–.

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26.Nb5?!
More precise was 26.Qe7! Rc4 and now
27.Ne2!! (a move, which is difficult to
foresee) decides: 27...Qd1 (or 27...Qc5
28.Qe8 Kg7 29.d7) 28.Rf1 Qd5 29.Rf5!
followed by d7, winning - Golubev.
26...Qc4 27.Qb6 Qc1?
More stubborn was 27...Qb4, but also here
White should slowly win. 28.Kh2 Bd7
29.a4! Qa4 30.Nc7!? and so on.
28.Kh2 Re8 29.Qc7! Qd1 30.Rf5 gf5 31.d7
Rf8 32.Qg3 Kh8 33.Qd6 1:0.

Geller E : Mikhalchisin A.
Riga 1985

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Best way to win is immediately transfer into
pawn endgame sacrificing exchange.
48...Rg2! 49.Kg2 Kd4
With outflanking Black wins pawn f3.
50.Kf2 Kd3 51.Kf1 Ke3 52.Kg2 Ke2 0:1.

Ruan Lufei : Zhao Xue
Jermuk 2012

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In the very simple form it was demonstrated
in the next game.
47.Kd5 Nf6 48.Rf6 Kf6 49.Kd6 1:0.

Menzi N. : Stojkovska M.
Novi Sad 2009

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Young players studies from old ones how to
transfer correctly.
63.g3!
Clearing the way for the King.
63...fg3 64.hg3 Nf3 65.Rf4 Kg5 66.Rf3!
Even 12 years juniors know the correct
technique nowadays!
66...gf3 67.Kf3 Kf5 68.Kg2 Kg4 69.f3 Kf5
70.Kh3 Kg5 71.f4 Kf5 72.Kh4 Kg6 73.f5
Kh6 74.f6 Kg6 75.f7 Kf7 76.Kh5 Kf6
77.g4 1:0.

Goryachkina A. : Arabidze M.
Kocaeli 2013

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89.Re4??
Capablanca teached generations of players,
that the best realization of extra exchange is

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to sacrifice it back, winning a pawn. But
young girls is performing it automatically.
Correct was to force e4 pawn forward
89.Rb3 Bd5 90.Rb6 e3 (90...Kh5 91.Ke5
Bc6 92.Rc6! - now! - 92...bc6 93.Ke4 Kg6
94.Ke5; 90...Kg3 91.Ke5 Bc6 92.Rc6 bc6
93.Ke4 Kf2 94.Ke5 Ke3 95.Kd6 Kd4
96.Kc6) 91.Kf4 Bc6 92.Rb2 Kh5 93.Ke3
Kg6 94.Rf2! and King comes to c7 and just
then sacrificing exchange.
89...Be4 90.Ke4 Kg4 91.Ke5
But huge dose of luck accompanied the
winner in few games.Cori did not perform
trifold repetition and lost on time.Arabidze
did something out of order in elementary
pawn end.
91...Kf3!
Correct way - it is necessary to go around
with the King.
92.Kd6 Ke4 93.Kc7 Kd5 94.Kb6 Kc4??
Only and simply way was 94...Kd4 95.c6
bc6 96.Kc6 (96.Ka6 c5 97.Kb5 c4 98.a6 c3)
96...Ke5! and now second time travelling
around to get to key square c7 or c8. 97.Kb6
Kd6 98.Ka6 Kc7.
95.c6!
Now Black King can not come to key
square c7.
95...bc6 96.Ka6 c5 97.Kb6 Kb4 98.a6 c4
99.a7 c3 100.a8Q Kb3 101.Qa1 1:0.

Kortchnoi V. : Serper G.
Luzern 1993

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52.Rd4 Ke5 53.Rg4!
As before - exchange sacrifice is the
simplest winning way. Two Black pawns are
paralyzed by White pawn a5.

53...Bg4 54.Kg4 Kd6 55.Kf4 b5 56.ab6 a5
57.Ke3 1:0.

Mikhalchisin A. : Bareev E.
Lviv 1987

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32...Rg4!
The only way to win this position is to
sacrifice exchange, transferring into pawns
end.
Not correct was 32...Rg1 33.Kf3 Rh1
34.Kg3 Kg6 35.Be8.
33.Kf3
Simple was 33.Bg4 hg4 34.Ke3 Kh5.
33...Rh4 34.Kg3 Rh1 35.Bh3 Rh3 36.Kh3
Kg6 0:1.

Kosintseva N. : Lomineishvili M.
Dresden 2008

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But not all of them are performing it
correctly!
69.Rd7??
69.Ke4 Kg8 70.Rg7! Kg7 71.Kd4 Kf7
72.Kd5! (Diagonal opposition.) 72...Ke7

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73.Ke5 Kf7 74.Kd6 Kg7 75.Ke7 and White
outflanks Black King and win g6 pawn with
the theoretically winning position.
69...Kg8 70.Ke4 d3! 71.Rd3 Bb2
Now we have another famous theroretical
position - it is draw! ½.

Mamedyarov S. : Gelfand B.
Tashkent 2014

Sometimes similar method is used to
sacrifice exchange in the pure way to
support own passed pawns.

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42.Rc5! dc5 43.Kc5 Rc8 44.Kb6 Ke5
45.Ba6 Rc2 46.Bf1 Rf2 47.Bc4 Rg2 48.a6
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Now Mamedyarov founds very convincing
way to win the endgame.
49.Kc5! Rf8 50.Bb5 Ra8 51.d6 Ke6 52.h4
g5 53.hg5 h4 54.d7 Ke7 55.g6 h3 56.g7 h2
57.Bc6 1:0.

Tal M. : Bronstein D.
URS 1974

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31.Rd5!
Very powerfull exchange sacrifice.This is
only way to play for win.
31…cd5 32.Kd4 Ke7 33.Kd5 Kd7 34.b4
Re8
Does not help 34...Rc6 35.c4 bc4 36.b5 Re6
37.c6 Kc8 38.Bc3 Kc7 39.Kc5.
35.c6 Kc8 36.c4 Re5 37.Kd4 bc4 38.Kc4
Re2 39.b5 Rc2 40.Kd5 Ra2 41.Bc3 Rg2
42.b6 Rf2 43.b7 Kb8 44.Bf6 1:0.