Jose Raul Capablanca

A good chess player is always lucky.

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[Event "U.S. Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Xiong, Jeffery"]
[Black "Kamsky, Gata"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "David Hayes"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[FEN "3r4/1p3pkp/5qp1/Pp6/3p4/1P1RnbP1/3Q3P/3BR1K1 w - - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
[TimeControl "0"]
[WhiteElo "0"]

1. Bxf3 Qxf3 2. Rexe3 dxe3 3. Qb2+ f6 4. Rxd8 e2 5. Qc1 { White wins with a
large material advantage.|The hero of this combination oddly enough is the
pawn on a5. If not for that pawn, black would play 5... Qc6 6. Qe3 e1=Q 7.
QxQ Qb6+ picking up white's rook next. } 1-0