Jos Raul Capablanca Viacheslav Ragozin
Moscow 1936
What has made this ending so famous is the way Capablanca annotated it. He wrote: "White's plan is to prevent the c-pawn from advancing and to control the board up to the fifth rank. To do this it is necessary to move the king to e3, put the rook on c3, the knight on d4 and the pawns on b4 and f4. When this position has been achieved, it will be time to move the queenside pawns." Capablanca asks himself: "Where should my pieces stand?" and uses the several-moves-in-a-row rule. He gave no specific variations, nor did he seem bothered about how long it would take to achieve this. With his comments, Capablanca demonstrated a new way of thinking in the endgame.
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