Capablanca vs Marshall reassessed

Boris Alterman writes: "In this lesson we will follow a historical battle between Capablanca and Marshall. No doubt the game we will be discussing was an issue of many debates for more then 50 years. Black’s attack looks pretty strong.

It must have been quite a while ago that, thanks to analysis of many strong GM’s, the assessment of this position becomes quite clear: White has an advantage. Recently Gary Kasparov summed up everything, commenting on the game Capablanca-Marshall in his “My Great Predecessors” book.

Indeed, the lines are so complicated and Black has such a great chance to mix up everything, that I‘d like to show you some brilliant discoveries I’ve come up with during my work on this lesson..."

GM Boris Alterman is 34, and lives in Israel. He was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, where he started playing chess at the age of 7. His career highlights include earning the IM title in 1991 and the GM title in 1992.He is the winner of the following Open and GM tournaments: Haifa 1993; Bad Homburg 1996; Rishon LeZion 1996; Beijing 1995 and 1997; Munchen 1992. His hobbies include computers and swimming, his favourite food is Chinese, he speaks fluent Russian, Hebrew and English.

Boris has worked for and against Garry Kasparov. In 1999 he assisted the world champion in his spectacular Microsoft match Kasparov vs The World, and was also part of the team that built up the web portal Kasparov Chess. In 2003, on the other hand, he was part of the Deep Junior team that gave Kasparov a run for his money in the New York match.

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