Letter #11 -  2011

Sub:    Capablanca vs. Botvinnik game
Date:   03/10/11  7:21:14 PM EDT
From:  Alan D.
To:      service@chess-poster.com

Hi,

I am trying to find a pgn game played in the year 1925 between Jose Capablanca and Mikhail Botvinnik both former World Champions.

A then 14 year old Botvinnik defeated Capablanca in a simultaneous exhibition in only 32 moves. I tried to find this particular game in your pgn files page but I did not find it and I just wonder if it is located somewhere in your site.

Thank you, good site!

Dear viewer,

This game was not in the Capablanca's pgn list games. It has been already added into the pgn zip file and can be downloaded now.

The game:

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Pgn file:

[Event "Leningrad"]
[Site "Leningrad"]
[Date "1925/??/??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Jose Raul Capablanca"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "D51"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.e3 Bb4 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Qb3 c5 8.dxc5 Qa5 9.Bxf6 Nxf6 10.O-O-O O-O 11.Nf3 Be6 12.Nd4 Rac8 13.c6 Bxc3 14.Qxc3 Qxa2 15.Bd3 bxc6 16.Kc2 c5 17.Nxe6 Qa4+ 18.b3 Qa2+ 19.Qb2 Qxb2+ 20.Kxb2 fxe6 21.f3 Rc7 22.Ra1 c4 23.bxc4 dxc4 24.Bc2 Rb8+ 25.Kc1 Nd5 26.Re1 c3 27.Ra3 Nb4 28.Re2 Rd8 29.e4 Rc6 30.Re3 Rd2 31.Raxc3 Rxc2+ 32.Rxc2 Rxc2+ 0-1

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