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Aug-12-09
 | | Arthur.J.Fizelbotom: Is it just me, or does Marshall look a lot like James Cromwell? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000342/ |
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Aug-12-09
| | square dance: i always thought so. |
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Aug-14-09
| | Arthur.J.Fizelbotom: I just realized that <Cactus> posted almost the same comment a few months back... apologies, I really should start reading previous posts. |
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Aug-15-09
| | AnalyzeThis: Marshall was a profound thinker, well ahead of his time. The Marshall variation of the Ruy Lopez alone makes him worthy of this praise. But his method of playing the Petroff with black was also fascinating. |
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| Sep-09-09 | | The Rocket: marshall was one of the most entertaining players, almost all his games are fun because he has a ton of nice tactical traps in almost every one of them! |
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Dec-01-09
 | | HeMateMe: As <Gary Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov> battled through the first 12 games of their world championship chess match last fall at the Hudson Theater in midtown Manhattan, the tension was felt some two miles south in the drawing room of a Greenwich Village brownstone. Members and friends of the Marshall Chess Club sat on the edge of leather sofas and chairs, gazing intently at a large demonstration board while grand masters offered analysis of each move. The Hudson Theater, which had priced tickets up to $100 a seat, was rarely full during the month of the matches, but the Marshall Club was often packed. Upon arriving in New York, many astute chess fans from all over the country often visited the Marshall's ivy-covered town house, its green-trimmed bay windows overlooking the sidewalk of West 10th Street. The anxious aficionados entered through the stately front doors and made their way to the drawing room, where antique chess tables with intricate wood inlays had been pushed aside to make room for the crowd. It was natural that chess fans should gather there when not at the theater, because to the cognoscenti, the Marshall is among the most hallowed of chess clubs. In the institution's 76-year history,< Kasparov and Karpov are the only world champions who haven't set foot in the Marshall.> "And that's only because this is the age of the chess entrepreneur," says the club's former vice-president and treasurer, Matthew Gross. <"Kasparov wants $8,000 to make an appearance>. We simply can't afford that." I would think that if you are a GM, and especially, if you are a world champion, you might want to take a peak at a chess club frequented by many world champions. Kasparov didn't have to play, but he still wanted $8 large, just to show his face? Kinda sad, i think. If you're a dancer, and you visit Moscow, you HAVE to visit the Bolshoi, because of all the legends who have danced there (Nureyev, Barishnikov, etc.), if you visit new York, and you're a musician, you must visit Carnegie Hall, just to breathe in the aura. I was in there when they were remodeling, years ago, and there are all these odd, somewhat hidden back passages. I think the Phantom may still be lurking there, gave me goosebumps. |
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| Mar-05-10 | | BobCrisp: <It's kinda up to Matt [Damon]. Maybe to five [films] ... At some point, he's gotta find out who he is.> http://www.quotesdaddy.com/author/F...
I'm betting that this is another FM entirely. |
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May-14-10
 | | TheFocus: For the Frank Marshall fans, here are two newly discovered games from Chess Notes, May 13. 6577. E.E. Colman
Olimpiu G. Urcan (Singapore) writes:
‘Pages 71-75 of my book Surviving Changi. E.E. Colman: A Chess Biography provided an account of the match at the City of London Chess Club between F.J. Marshall and Colman on 27-29 April 1911 (won by Marshall +2 –1 =0). It was mentioned that only one of the games, Colman’s win, had been found, but I have now traced further information about the match, as well as the moves of the other two games. The Straits Times of 31 May 1911, page 2, provided an extensive report dated 1 May 1911. All three games were included, and an eye-witness stated: “While there [in Tunbridge Wells], he [Colman] arranged with the American champion, Mr F.J. Marshall, who had come over from his victories at San Sebastián to lead his countrymen in the cable match, to play a match of three games in London for a small stake. This match took place at the City of London Chess Club last week. The time-limit was 15 moves an hour, and Mr Colman lost the odd game. It was unfortunate that the deciding game had to be abandoned to the American at an interesting point through an oversight by Mr Colman, who was pressed for time. The games proved full of vigorous chess on both sides. I was fortunate to be present on Friday night when your champion beat the great American master, who was evidently chagrined at his loss.” Colman’s victory over Marshall (in which he had White in a Queen’s Gambit Declined) was given on page 253 of my book, culled from the chess column of The Globe and Traveller of 6 May 1911 (page 10). Below are the other two games, and they show that Bruce Hayden was wrong when he stated that during this match Colman “repelled the famous Marshall Counter-Attack in the Ruy López, many years before its inventor was to play it against Capablanca in the New York tournament of 1918”. (See Hayden’s article in Chess Review, May 1953, pages 139-140, and his obituary of Colman in the October 1964 BCM, pages 298-300.) The score of the first match-game has been corrected by me, starting with move 39. I reconstructed the game from that point, being convinced that there were typos in the score. Other errors were found: “23 Re7” instead of the obvious 23 Rd7, and “47 a7” and “48 Ra1” whereas it is evident that the moves 47 Ra1 and 48 a7 occurred in the game.’ Frank James Marshall – Eugene Ernest Colman
First match-game, London, 27 April 1911
Two Knights’ Defense
1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.Bc4 Nf6 5.O-O Nxe4 6.Re1 d5 7.Bxd5 Qxd5 8.Nc3 Qd8 9.Rxe4+ Be7 10.Nxd4 f5 11.Rf4 O-O 12.Be3 Bd6 13.Nxc6 bxc6 14.Rd4 c5 15.Rd2 Bb7 16.Bf4 Qh4 17.Bxd6 cxd6 18.Rxd6 f4 19.f3 Rae8 20.Qf1 Rf5 21.Qf2 Qg5 22.Rad1 Rfe5 23.Rd7 Bc6 24.Rxa7 Re3 25.h4 Qh5 26.Rf1 R8e6 27.Rc7 Bxf3 28.Rc8+ Kf7 29.Qd2 Qg4 30.Nd5 Bxd5 31.Qxd5 Qxh4 32.Qf5+ Rf6 33.Rc7+ Re7 34.Qd5+ Rfe6 35.Qxc5 h6 36.Rc6 g6 37.a4 Kf6 38.Rxe6+ Rxe6 39.Qd4+ Kf5 40.Qd3+ Kf6 41.Qd8+ Re7 42.Qd6+ Kf5 43.Qd3+ Kg5 44.a5 Qg3 45.Qxg3+ fxg3 46.a6 h5 47.Ra1 Re8 48.a7 1-0. Source: The Straits Times, 31 May 1911, page 2.
Frank James Marshall – Eugene Ernest Colman
Third match-game, London, 29 April 1911
Queen’s Gambit Declined
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.e3 Nd7 5.Bd3 Bd6 6.f4 f5 7.Nf3 Ngf6 8.O-O Ne4 9.Bd2 Nxd2 10.Qxd2 Nf6 11.Rac1 O-O 12.Qc2 Ne4 13.g4 fxg4 14.cxd5 exd5 15.Nxe4 dxe4 16.Bc4+ Kh8 17.Ng5 Qc7 18.Qb3 h6 19.Nxe4 Bf5 20.Nxd6 Qxd6 21.Bd3 Rae8 22.Bxf5 Rxf5 23.Qd3 Qe6 24.Rce1 g5 25.fxg5 Rxg5 26.Qc3 Kg8 27.e4 g3 28.hxg3 Qh3 29.Rf3 Rh5 30.Kf2 Rf8 31.Qb3+ 1-0. Source: The Straits Times, 31 May 1911, page 2. |
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Jul-31-10
 | | GrahamClayton: 1907 photo:
http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichi... |
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| Aug-29-10 | | jerseybob: Karpova: Great photo of NY 1918, and check out the footwear on Marshall and Capa! |
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| Sep-18-10 | | soothsayer8: Did he ever play any other opening move besides 1. d4? |
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| Sep-18-10 | | Pyke: <soothsayer8: Did he ever play any other opening move besides 1. d4?> Of course he did - take a look at Marshall opening with 1.e4 for example: Repertoire Explorer: Frank James Marshall (white) I am not sure though, how far you can use the opening explorer as a non-premium member. |
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Oct-20-10
 | | visayanbraindoctor: Poor Marshall has often been relegated to mediocrity because it is widely perceived that Lasker unfairly chose him as Challenger over Pillsbury, Maroczy, and Rubinstein, in a WC match where Marshall got totally plastered. The above topic is quite controversial, but let's just concentrate on Marshall himself and his performance against his peers who Challenged fo the Title and who participated in 1914 St. Petersburg, 1924 and 1927 New York (not counting the World Champions against whom he had a dismal record) in the following links: vs. Pillsbury
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... vs. Maroczy
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... vs. Rubinstein
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... vs. Schlechter
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... vs. Chigorin
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... vs. Gunsberg
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... vs. Tarrasch
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... vs. Bernstein
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... vs. Blackburne
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... vs. Janowski
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... vs. Nimzowitsch
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... vs. Reti
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... vs. Bogoljubov
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... vs. Tartakower
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... vs. Yates
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... vs. Spielmann
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... vs. Vidmar
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Except for Tartakower (and the World Champions), Marshall had a pretty decent record against the best chess players of his era. There is no doubt that he was of Candidate strength had he lived in modern times. |
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| Oct-20-10 | | Petrosianic: <Poor Marshall has often been relegated to mediocrity because it is widely perceived that Lasker unfairly chose him as Challenger over Pillsbury, Maroczy, and Rubinstein, in a WC match where Marshall got totally plastered.> Since Pillsbury was dead at the time, that would be a little unfair. Rubinstein hadn't arrived yet in 1907, and Maroczy actually had first crack, but couldn't raise the money. Marshall didn't raise it either, Lasked ended up playing him for half price. |
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Oct-22-10
| | lionel15: I have a soft spot for Frank Marshall. When I first played chess about 50 years ago. My first chess book was Marshall's Chess openings, published in 1904 by BCM. I have just looked at it again, I made many pencil moves in the book. I say thank you Frank Marshall for leading me further into chess. It has given me much enjoyment in my life. |
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Dec-03-10
| | muwatalli: a small bit of wisdom from marshall's "my fifty years of chess." "In gambit openings the cardinal rule for each player is to 'git thar fustest with the mostest men.'" |
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Feb-12-11
 | | kingscrusher: Marshall's brilliancy move video annotated:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPOY... |
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Feb-12-11
 | | Shams: <Since Pillsbury was dead at the time, that would be a little unfair> No he wasn't. He was resting. Beautiful plumage! |
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| Feb-12-11 | | Jim Bartle: PIllsbury was stunned. He stunned easily. |
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Feb-13-11
| | Shams: He was probably piiiiiiining for the fee-jords! |
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| Feb-13-11 | | Akavall: 
click for larger view23...Qg3!!
S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912
Is brilliant.
Some other brilliances:
1) 
click for larger view19.Qf6!!
Petrosian vs Pachman, 1961 2) 
click for larger view21. Qg7!!?
Ivanchuk vs Shirov, 1996 |
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| Mar-03-11 | | Penguincw: In the Chessgames Playing Zone. I saw a quote my Marshall.It went : <"A bad plan is better than no plan at all"> or maybe something like that. |
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| Mar-03-11 | | castle dweller: I have an old chess book called "My Fifty Years of Chess" written by Marshall himself. It is a collectible and is one of only a few that is signed and inscribed by him, along with the date of 1942. I might be willing to part with it for a reasonable price if someone really wanted it for their collection. Leave a message here, and I will check in from time to time! |
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| Mar-30-11 | | Penguincw: < Penguincw: Chessgames Playing Zone. I saw a quote my Marshall.It went : <"A bad plan is better than no plan at all"> or maybe something like that. > That's actually true.Coming up with at least something is better than coming up with nothing. |
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Mar-30-11
| | MaxxLange: I disagree. There are plans bad enough that they are much worse than no plan. |
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