In this video I am covering a living chess played between 3rd World Chess Champion Jose Raul Capablanca and American master Herman Steiner!
Human chess, living chess or live chess is a form of chess in which people take the place of pieces. A decade later Steiner reported that the game had been pre-arranged:
‘In The Immortal Games of Capablanca, page 203, the introduction to Exhibition Game No. 93 states that this game “played with ‘living pieces’ turns out to be vastly entertaining and must have delighted the spectators”. This gives the impression that the game was played on its merits, when in reality it was pre-arranged by Capablanca, who at that time refused to play any other way. Naturally, I would like this known as it could not possibly be considered an Immortal Game.
Had Mr Reinfeld consulted me before going to press I would gladly have given him all the facts with proof thereof.’
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Jose Raul Capablanca vs Herman Steiner
Living Chess Exhibition (1933) (exhibition), Los Angeles, CA USA, Apr-11
Four Knights Game: Spanish. Symmetrical Variation (C49)
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 d6
7. Bg5 Bxc3 8. bxc3 Ne7 9. Nh4 c6 10. Bc4 Be6 11. Bxf6 gxf6
12. Bxe6 fxe6 13. Qg4+ Kf7 14. f4 Rg8 15. Qh5 Kg7 16. fxe5
dxe5 17. Rxf6 Kxf6 18. Rf1+ Nf5 19. Nxf5 exf5 20. Rxf5+ Ke7
21. Qf7+ Kd6 22. Rf6+ Kc5 23. Qxb7 Qb6 24. Rxc6+ Qxc6 25. Qb4#
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