Carl Schlechter vs Georg Marco (1894)

Carl Schlechter vs Georg Marco
9th DSB Kongress, Leipzig (1894) · Four Knights Game: Double Spanish (C49) · 1/2-1/2

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Oct-06-04		chessgames.com: This game tickled a bug in the Opening Explorer (but it's fixed now.) What a strange opening! "Let's play the Valencia Opening (1.e3). Nevermind, let's play the French with colors reversed. Better still, let's play the four Knights."

Oct-06-04		percyblakeney: Looks as if Schlechter and Marco didn't mind drawing this game.

Oct-06-04		notsodeepthought: I guess they couldn't find a way to bring out the knights in more than one move per knight, the way they did with the e pawns...

Oct-06-04		percyblakeney: They could have tried a Falkbeer Countergambit with 3.f3 d6 4.f4 d5, but that would have led to a dangerously unbalanced position.

Dec-04-04		vonKrolock: They played a Match in Vienna 1893, whith the unique score of +0=10-0 (ten draws) - some very hard fought (one of the games inspired a famous Endgame composition by R. Reti) Here in Leipzig 1894, in the Congress of the German Chess Union (DSB), they delivered this symmetrical oddity - but certainly not an encounter free from mental and emotional strain, as Schlechter was the youngest of all participants, facing for the first time the Tarrasch, Blackburne & Co

Oct-28-05		Mateo: <vonKrolock: They played a Match in Vienna 1893, whith the unique score of +0=10-0 (ten draws)> Could you give us the moves of these games. That would be very nice?

Oct-28-05		vonKrolock: <Mateo>: Yes, it would be very nice, but i have not the scores - maybe you can search in some recent game collection (about Schlechter), or in old magazines collection (like "Wiener Schachzeitung", for instance)

Oct-01-12		FSR: If you look at the Opening Explorer for 1.e4 e6, it claims that White in that opening played 2.d5 in this game. What on Earth?

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round 6, (September 6, Thursday, 4 P.M.)
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