Frank James Marshall vs Carlos Torre-Repetto (1925)

Frank James Marshall vs Carlos Torre-Repetto
en route for Baden-Bade 1925 · Mexican Defense: General (A50) · 0-1

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Feb-06-04		Whitehat1963: Is this Marshall's worst a** kicking?

Feb-06-04		Benjamin Lau: 3. d5? is questionable. Better would have been Nf3 and transposing into a good old Chigorin's Defense with good play for white. 4. b3? and you have to feel sorry for Marshall when he gets pummeled on the dark squares.

Apr-08-04		ArturoRivera: I am from from México so i now that Torre Repetto (a mexican) used a weapon called Mexican defense to the queen pawn opening (that was used in this game) in wich d5 is very questionable and Nf3 is almost an automatic response.

Aug-16-04		Kaspy2: Orlov discusses this game in his book on the mexican aka black knights tango. he writes that this game was published in a latvian chess mag. It was actually played onboard a ship enroute to Baden-Baden where Torre played Saemisch with A50. Frank should have played 6.Nc3 - maybe he was seasick to not see it ;-)

Jun-19-05		who: 6.Bc3 works as well.

Jun-19-05		aw1988: This was most likely played on a train.

Jun-19-05		aw1988: Uh, that was before I saw Kaspy2's post.

Jun-19-05		RookFile: Well, 6. Bc3 and white is fine, right?

Oct-18-06		syracrophy: This game was played in the boat "S.S. Antonia" (Cunard Line), in route to the tournament of Baden Baden. There Marshall and Torre became good friends and played a session of blitz. In one of those games, Torre wanted to try one of his ideas: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 Nc6!?. Marshall wanted to punish that strange variation and lost in just seven moves. After 7...Qf6 8.Ngf3 Ng4 9.Rb1 Nexf2 10.Qc2 Ne3 11.Qb2 Bc3 12.Qa3 Nc2+ wins the queen

Oct-18-06		syracrophy: <<RookFile: Well, 6. Bc3 and white is fine, right?>> Yes. 6.Nd2?? was the horrible blunder. 6.Bc3 was correct

Jun-26-08		Alphastar: Bc3 with equality.

Nov-23-08		megatacos: thats a funny game, marshall got demolished

May-05-09		JManRio: If only this game could be used for the Pun challenge... "Repetto Never Again"

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