{"id":1596,"date":"2022-11-19T06:24:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T06:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2023-02-24T12:10:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T12:10:20","slug":"forward-chess-highlights-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/forward-chess-highlights-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Forward Chess Highlights: November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Immortal Games of Capablanca <\/strong>by Fred Reinfeld has just been given a new lease of life, in a \u201821st<\/sup> century edition\u2019 which \u2018has been revised and reformatted to meet the expectations of the modern chess player.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The update includes over 200 new diagrams, a number of photographs and a conversion from English descriptive notation to figurine algebraic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The icy fingers of Stockfish 14 have been allowed to wander over the moves and analysis, but these are prefaced by \u2018S14\u2019 instead of merely serving to tear up Reinfeld\u2019s original notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book contains biographical material and 113 annotated games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bearing in mind that the book was written 80 years ago, Reinfeld\u2019s notes hold up very well as do, of course, the games of the Third World Champion.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Capablanca\u2019s chess career was remarkable and his tournament record shows he very rarely failed to finish either first or second, despite being hampered by high blood pressure and a predilection to be distracted from studying chess by certain other pleasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reinfeld presents games from Capablanca\u2019s earliest years all the way up to his splendid performance on board one of the famous Buenos Aires Olympiad of 1939, at which he outscored all of the other top players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, we are used to seeing Capablanca win games with his extraordinary endgame skill, but he was more than capable of smashing through a king\u2019s defense in the good old style. Here is a case in point, with a couple of notes by Reinfeld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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