Last time we looked at a position from the Steinitz – Chigorin World Championship match of 1892.
Chigorin blundered with 32 Bb4?? and Steinitz now forced a checkmate in two moves with 32 …Rxh2+, which enabled him to win the match 10-8 and retain his title.
Our next position features the Third World Chess Champion.
Capablanca, World Champion from 1921-7, very rarely lost games of chess and hardly ever made big mistakes or blunders. Yet in this game he blundered on the ninth move.
Saemisch – Capablanca
Karlsbad, 1929
Capablanca played 9 …Ba6 here, to start pressuring White’s potentially weak pawns.
Can you find Saemisch’s very strong reply?
Answer next time…