| Jan-11-06 | | MorphyMatt: Why resign???? |
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Jul-22-12
 | | FSR: White doesn't have a lot of compensation for the pawn, but I doubt that he resigned in this position. |
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Jul-22-12
 | | perfidious: It must be that the piece sacrifice 7.Nc3 cxb5 8.Nxe4 hadn't yet been invented, which caused Black considerable practical difficulties, though Stefan Briem came up with 8....d5 9.exd6 Nf6 10.Qd4 Qd7. |
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Jul-22-12
| | FSR: <perfidious> Nah, it was known since 1902, and Marshall faced it at Cambridge Springs 1904. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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Jul-22-12
| | perfidious: <FSR> Most interesting; the first time I ever saw it was in one of (I think) Schiller's books with Shamkovich many years ago, at a time when I'd never yet played the Schliemann. |
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Jul-22-12
| | perfidious: <FSR> PS My statement, on reading it back, implied that Briem originated 8...d5 etc-it was actually 10....Qd7 which he was supposed to have introduced instead. |
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Jul-22-12
| | FSR: <perfidious> That was how I interpreted it. I first saw the piece sac line in a pamphlet by Tibor Florian on the Schliemann, probably around 1975. I don't think 10...Qd7 was known then; I only learned of it many years later. The only game with it in the database is A Kunte vs R Eames, 2001. Nice name that the White player has there, btw. |
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Jul-22-12
| | perfidious: <FSR> Now you mention it, I vaguely recall the Florian monograph. That surname is a beaut-also, when one adds his opponent's first initial to his last name, we've got another gem! As to Barry-Marshall, that was not terribly ambitious play by White; he seemed to throw it over before he'd really got started. |
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Jul-22-12
| | FSR: <perfidious> Reames A .... Hmm, I see what you mean. |
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