Mikhail Chigorin vs James Mason (1889)

Mikhail Chigorin vs James Mason
USA-06.Congress New York 1889 · Bird Opening: Dutch Variation (A03) · 0-1

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Jun-22-05		nasmichael: There are a couple of games that black responds with ...f5 after an initial f4 by white. I am not sure why this happened in this tournament. But they end with black's demise. Was it "protocol" (in the same way that gambits were usually accepted, by 'gentleman's rules')?

Jul-26-05		Boomie: Experimentation in 1. f4 was obviously a hot item in 1889. Today we know that 1.f4 f5 can transpose into a Dutch defense with colors reversed, usually a bad idea. See J M Hanham vs J Mason, 1889 from this tournament for a reversed Dutch. Chessplayers then as now enjoy experimenting with openings. There were a lot of tournaments at that time devoted to one opening, for example, the Vienna Gambit tourney of 1903. Obviously they are going to stumble and bumble their way through new landscapes.

Jul-17-09		Knight13: <As explained in the "Modern Chess Instructor" we, as a rule, do not approve on principle of the early advance of any but the two center Pawns>, in which, it seems, that this rule was later burned in hell by Nimzovich and Reti. <The Bishop is not well placed here, being subject to the attacks of the advancing hostile Pawns on the Q side, as will be seen> Bullcrap. The bishop is happy there!

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