The Capablanca Opening

...or openings.

I recall admiring the natural talent of Capablanca and his Mozart like precision in the game.  His contemporaries almost hushed awe of the man also speaks volumes.  When Alekhine said he really didn't believe he would win the championship from Capa I don't think he was being coy.  Alekhine had many virtues but humility wasnt one of them.

I'd thought of Capa as being a master of all aspects of the game with the exception perhaps of the opening where I'd viewed him as a bit of a slave of fashion of the time.

Now that I look at it again it appears that Capa was a pioneer in the opening.

Almost any opening in the English language tagged with "Orthodox" or "Classical" could just as well be called the Capablanca.  This is necessarily an incomplete list but whater others are there?  I'm going to put those in a second post so it is easier to append.

--Orthodox variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined.
--Classical variation of the Nimzo-Indian [sic!]
--Cambridge Springs Defense, Capablanca variation
--Capablanca variation, Anti-Cambridge Springs
--English Opening, Capablanca variation
--Capablanca variation of Samisch Nimzo Indian

Any others?

Interestingly there are a 145 posts and counting on the Meyers Briggs Personality Test and not a single on on the chess openings pioneered or championed by Capablanca.

Sad really.

People who actually know anything about Capablanca are pretty rare.

Most folks here aren't connoisseurs of chess history, just players. The opinions that usually fly forth on threads about old GMs are usually pretty worthless, like Morphy was a C-player or bogus amateur psychoanalyses of Fischer.