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Diagram 25 · White to move

Material is level. White's rook owns the seventh rank, and Black's rook has just taken aim at the pawn on c3. Every quiet defence lets the position drift toward a draw. Capablanca found the move that every annotator since has called decisive. What did he play? · Capablanca vs Tartakower, New York 1924

sealed

Diagram 25