Alekhine-Capablanca, 1913

Alekhine – Capablanca
Saint Petersburg, 12/23/1913
Exhibition Match Game 2
Ruy Lopez, Closed Defense (C90)

1. PK4 PK4 2. NKB3 NQB3 3. BN5 PQR3 4. BR4 NB3 5. O-O BK2 6. RK1 PQN4 7. BN3 PQ3 8. PB3 NQR4 [8. … O-O is more usual] 9. BB2 PB4 10. PQ4 QB2 11. PQR4! [This is the reason that 8. … NQR4 has fallen out of favor. – Pachman] PN5 [Later 11. … RN1 was tried in Löwenfisch-Lilienthal, Moscow 1939, but appears to be weaker. Tartakower recommended 11. … RR2, which seems too passive. Pachman recommends 11. … BN2.] 12. QNQ2 [Keres-Reshevsky, Stockholm 1937, seems to have found an improvement with 12. PxNP.] O-O 13. NB1? [ECO] BPxP 14. PxQP BK3 15. NK3 KRB1 16. BQ2 NB5 17. NxN QxN 18. RQB1 PN6 19. BN1 QxRP 20. PxP PxP 21. NxP RxR 22. BxR RQ1 23. QK2 PR3 24. PR3 BQB4 25. BB4 NQ2 26. RQ1 BN3 27. NB3 BB5 28. QK1 NB4 29. BQ6 NQ6 30. BxN RxB 31. RR1 QN4 32. BxB QxB 33. RB1 QB7 34. KR2 QxNP 35. PK5 BxP 36. QB1 RKN3 37. RB8+ KR2 38. RB8 QB7 39. RxP PN7 40. RN7 BN3 41. NQ2 QxN 42. PK6 PN8=Q White resigns