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Improve Your Chess: First Learn End! - Capablanca-Dake 1931

Opening:

Player(s):

Dake, Capablanca

Teacher's library
Dake
Capablanca
endgame

Dake blunders a piece in the opening and Capablanca misses it (but then engines are so go...). After a relatively equal middlegame, Capablanca erroneously goes into a lost endgame! Dake then misses a couple of winning lines and instead ends up in a drawn position.  To compound his woes, Dake then also misses the drawing opportunity and gives Capa a winning line, which Capablanca finds.  All-in-all, a very unexpectedly uneven game full of instructive errors.