Featured is an instructive chess game between David Janowski and José Raúl Capablanca from the Rice Memorial, held in New York 1916. Out of a Slav Defense we observe an early queen exchange where Capablanca is left with double-isolated b-pawns. Notice the deep point behind Capablanca’s counter-intuitive decisive to withdraw his bishop to d7. Capablanca’s light-squared bishop ends up inside of the structure, but it helps the b-pawns to advance and eventually undouble. It is not long after Capablanca’s light-squared bishop assumes a dream post outside of the pawn chain that Janowski’s position crumbles.
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1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 Bf5 5. Qb3 Qb6 6. Qxb6 axb6 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. Nxd5 cxd5 9. e3 Nc6 10. Bd2 Bd7 11. Be2 e6 12. O-O Bd6 13. Rfc1 Ke7 14. Bc3 Rhc8 15. a3 Na5 16. Nd2 f5 17. g3 b5 18. f3 Nc4 19. Bxc4 bxc4 20. e4 Kf7 21. e5 Be7 22. f4 b5 23. Kf2 Ra4 24. Ke3 Rca8 25. Rab1 h6 26. Nf3 g5 27. Ne1 Rg8 28. Kf3 gxf4 29. gxf4 Raa8 30. Ng2 Rg4 31. Rg1 Rag8 32. Be1 b4 33. axb4 Ba4 34. Ra1 Bc2 35. Bg3 Be4+ 36. Kf2 h5 37. Ra7 Bxg2 38. Rxg2 h4 39. Bxh4 Rxg2+ 40. Kf3 Rxh2 41. Bxe7 Rh3+ 42. Kf2 Rb3 43. Bg5+ Kg6 44. Re7 Rxb2+ 45. Kf3 Ra8 46. Rxe6+ Kh7