A New Morphy Had Arisen | Corzo vs Capablanca | Game 8

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Juan Corzo vs Jose Raul Capablanca
"Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?" (game of the day Dec-13-2007)
Capablanca - Corzo (1901), Habana CUB, rd 8, Dec-06
Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit. Hamppe-Allgaier-Thorold Gambit (C25)

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 ef4 4. Nf3 g5 5. h4 g4 6. Ng5 h6 7. Nf7 Kf7 8. d4 d5 9. ed5 Qe7 10. Kf2 g3 11. Kg1 Nd4 12. Qd4 Qc5 13. Ne2 Qb6 14. Qb6 ab6 15. Nd4 Bc5 16. c3 Ra4 17. Be2 Bd4 18. cd4 Rd4 19. b3 Nf6 20. Bb2 Rd2 21. Bh5 Nh5 22. Bh8 f3 23. gf3 Nf4 24. Be5 Rg2 25. Kf1 Rf2 26. Ke1 Nd3

In 1901 the boy prodigy Jose Capablanca began play against Juan Corzo, the champion of Cuba, in an exhibition match. The match has sometimes been billed as being for the championship of Cuba, but that is incorrect. In April of 1902, the Cuban championship was played and Capablanca finished in fourth place with a minus score, losing both games to Corzo, who won the event.
Prior to this match, Capablanca played eighteen games against ten players of Cuba. Eight opponents played him twice, two of his opponents played him only once. Clocks were used and Capablanca’s average rate of play was 140 moves an hour, his score being +13 =2 –3, his losses coming against Juan Corzo and his brother Enrique Corzo.

Corzo was a fine middlegame tactician; he was the strongest player in Cuba, and would certainly rank as a candidate for master class. In the latter stages of the match considerable crowds gathered, and attendance had to be restricted to ticket-holders, whilst others waited outside. Capablanca’s victory created a local sensation; the Cubans were convinced that a new Morphy had arisen.

Their enthusiasm was short-lived. Capablanca was thoroughly trounced in the Cuban championship a few months later. In this double-round event he lost both of his games against J. Corzo.

It is not easy to explain Corzo’s defeat in the match. He was too old a hand to be affected by crowd sympathy or to be rushed into playing too fast against an opponent whose rate of play averaged ninety moves an hour. Perhaps he lost because of poor endplay; at all events Capablanca won two drawn endgames and saved three or four lost endgames. There is other evidence of this weakness of Corzo’s, that is, his comment on White’s forty-third move of the fourth match game.

The match was for the best of seven games, draws not counting. In the first eleven games Capablanca scored four wins against Corzo’s two, but they agreed to play on until the seventh win was notched up. As it happened the match ended with a loss – Hooper & Brandreth in The Unknown Capablanca.

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