Capablanca Explains His "Most Accurate" Game - Best of the 1900s - Marshall vs. Capablanca, 1909
World Chess Champion Jose Capablanca was the consummate master of intuitive positional play. His pieces always flowed harmoniously to the perfect squares and with a combination of short-term plans and little combinations.
In his game presented here against Frank Marshall, Capablanca demonstrated perfectly how to capitalize on the advantage of a queenside majority by inexorably advancing his pawns and leveraging the right trades to get his pieces where they needed to be. Marshall was one of the greatest players of the time, but he could pose little resistance to the plan and ultimately Capablanca seized the open file and broke through with a queening combination.
Top 10 Games of the 1900s
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- #7: Marshall vs. Capablanca, 1909
- #8: Janowski vs. Tarrasch, 1905
- #9: Krejcik vs. Krobst, 1908
- #10: Chigorin vs. Mortimer, 1900
- See also: Top 10 of the 1910s, Top 10 of the 1920s, Top 10 of the 1930s, Top 10 of the 1940s, Top 10 of the 1950s, Top 10 of the 1960s, Top 10 of the 1970s, Top 10 of the 1980s, Top 10 of the 1990s, Top 10 of the 2000s, and Top 10 of the 2010s
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