Outplayed | Capablanca vs Corzo | Game 9

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Jose Raul Capablanca vs Juan Corzo
Capablanca - Corzo (1901), Habana CUB, rd 9, Dec-11
Dutch Defense: Staunton Gambit. Chigorin Variation (A83)

1. d4 f5 2. e4 fe4 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 c6 5. Bf6 ef6 6. Ne4 d5 7. Ng3 Qe7 8. Qe2 Qe2 9. Be2 Bd6 10. Nf3 O-O 11. O-O Bg4 12. h3 Bf3 13. Bf3 Bg3 14. fg3 Nd7 15. Rfe1 Rae8 16. Kf1 f5 17. Re8 Re8 18. Re1 Re1 19. Ke1 Nf6 20. Kd2 Ne4 21. Ke3 Nd6 22. Be2 Kf7 23. Kf4 Kf6 24. h4 g6 25. g4 h6 26. g5 hg5 27. hg5 Ke7 28. g4 fg4 29. Bd3 Nf5 30. Kg4 Nd4 31. Bg6 c5 32. Kh5 Ne6 33. Kh6 Kf8 34. Bf5 Ng7 35. Bc8 b6 36. g6 d4 37. b3 Kg8 38. a4 Kf8 39. Bg4 Ne8 40. Kh7 Ng7 41. Kh6 Ne8 42. Be2 Ng7 43. Bc4 Ne8 44. Kg5 Ke7 45. Kf5 Ng7 46. Ke5 Nh5 47. Be2 Ng7 48. Kd5 Ne8 49. Kc6 Ng7 50. Kb7 Kd6 51. Ka7 Kc7 52. Ka6 Ne8 53. Bf3 Ng7 54. Bd5 Ne8 55. Bf7 Ng7 56. Kb5 Nf5 57. a5 Nd6 58. Ka6 ba5 59. g7

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.

Source: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=80396

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