Jose Raul Capablanca

A good chess player is always lucky.

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[Event "rated untimed match"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Unknown"]
[Black "Unknown227"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Annotator "David Hayes"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[FEN "8/8/p2k1p2/1p3p1p/PPpK1P1P/2P3P1/8/8 b - - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
[TimeControl "0"]
[WhiteElo "0"]

1... bxa4 2. Kxc4 Kc6 3. Kd3 Kb5 4. Kc2 a5 ( { Black can try: } 4... Kc4 5. Kb2 Kb5 6. Ka3 a5 7. bxa5 Kxa5 8. c4 Kb6 9. Kxa4 Kc5 10. Kb3 { White wins with
a large material advantage. } ) 5. bxa5 Kxa5 6. Kb2 Kb6 ( { Black can try: } 6... Kb5 7. Ka3 Kc4 8. Kxa4 Kxc3 9. Kb5 Kd4 10. Kc6 Ke3 11. Kd6 Kf3 12. Ke6 Kxg3 13. Kxf5 Kxh4 14. Kxf6 Kg4 15. f5 h4 16. Kg6 h3 17. f6 h2 18. f7 h1=Q 19. f8=Q { Draw. } ) 7. c4 Kc5 8. Kc3 a3 9. Kb3 a2 10. Kxa2 Kxc4 11. Ka3 Kd3 12. Kb4 Ke4 13. Kc5 Kf3 14. Kd5 Kxg3 15. Ke6 Kxf4 16. Kxf6 Kg4 { Black wins
with a large material advantage. } 0-1