Jose Raul Capablanca

A good chess player is always lucky.

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[Event "rated untimed match"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Unknown"]
[Black "Unknown490"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "David Hayes"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[FEN "8/1k3p2/pp1p4/3P1p1p/P1PK1P1P/1P6/8/8 w - - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
[TimeControl "0"]
[WhiteElo "0"]

1. a5 ( { White can try: } 1. b4 Kc7 2. c5 b5 3. axb5 axb5 4. Ke3 Kd7 5. c6+ Kc7 { Draw. Neither side can make progress. } ) 1... bxa5 2. c5 Kc7 3. cxd6+ Kxd6 4. Kc4 Kd7 5. Kc5 Kc7 6. d6+ Kd7 7. Kd5 Kd8 8. Kc6 Kc8 9. d7+ Kd8 10. Kd6 f6 11. Ke6 a4 12. bxa4 a5 13. Kxf6 Kxd7 14. Kxf5 Ke7 15. Kg6 Ke6 16. f5+ Ke5 17. f6 Ke6 18. f7 Ke7 19. Kg7 Ke6 20. f8=Q { White wins with a large material advantage. } 1-0