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Painless execution- Part 2: Lasker - Capablanca, Havana; 1921

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" One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge " - Alfred Nobel ....as I mentioned earlier, what we would be observing now is for some similarity, whilst embracing the differences! We pick from the position which is structurally similar to Matlakov - Kramnik but, here Lasker opted to have a different positioning for his Queen and the Queen's Rook, which was in vogue till recent past, but for some reason, losing attention.....probably the 'engines' and multicore processors may have given a..... "0.01".....but.... .....Capablanca himself was quoted saying..." 7.Qc2 is considered inferior to Rc1. White was probably trying to deviate from the well-known paths. " But, don't we get a feeling that such considerations are more of the nature that; suppose we need to go to a particular destination, at times we feel it is better to take trai