The great Cuban world champion Jose Raul Capablanca had a trademark touch that propelled some of his greatest victories the petite combinaison, the little tactical flourish designed not to mate a king or win a queen but to secure the tiniest of positional advantages such as control of a vital square or the trade of a bad bishop for a good knight.
The great Cuban world champion Jose Raul Capablanca had a trademark touch that propelled some of his greatest victories the petite combinaison, the little tactical flourish designed not to mate a king or win a queen but to secure the tiniest of positional advantages such as control of a vital square or the trade of a bad bishop for a good knight.