This is a variation of the Ruy Lopez

One of Black's more aggressive alternatives is the Marshall Attack: after 3...a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 O-O 8.c3 Black plays 8...d5, sacrificing a pawn with 9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Nxe5 Nxe5 11.Rxe5. In exchange, Black has an attack on White's king: 11...c6 12.d4 Bd6 13.Re1 Qh4. This attack can be quite treacherous for White. In game 8 of the World Championship in 2004 between Vladimir Kramnik and Péter Lékó, Kramnik succumbed to Black's attack. White often avoids the Marshall Attack by playing one of the anti-Marshall systems, 8.a4 or 8.h3 instead of 8.c3.

The Marshall Attack was introduced by Frank Marshall in a famous game against Capablanca in 1918. According to legend, Marshall saved this prepared innovation for eight years before getting the chance to play it against Capablanca. This seems unlikely, and in fact the gambit had been played earlier in a few obscure games including a consultation game in Havana, although there's no evidence that Marshall knew of these games. Capablanca weathered the Black attack and won brilliantly. Improvements to Black's play were found (Marshall played 11...Nf6 instead of 11...c6) and the Marshall Attack was adopted by top players including Boris Spassky.

http://www.playchess.de/games/HCL-T...

Turtle gets mugged
A turtle is crossing the road when he's mugged by two snails. When the police show up, they ask him what happened. The shaken turtle replies, "I don't know. It all happened so fast." — Submitted by Debby Carter

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." ― George R.R. Martin

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The COVID-19 situation has been especially stressful for the Flat Earth Society. They fear that social distancing measures could push people over the edge. I bet they are excited about flattening the curve, though.

Middlegame

An honest magistrate cannot succeed. Chinese

The magistrate's so gets out of every scrape. Spanish

A maid that laughs is half taken. English

The malt's above the meal.
(i.e. too much to drink.) Scottish

He who rides in the chair is a man; he who carries the chair is 
 also a man. Chinese

Man is harsher than iron, harder than stone, and more delicate
 than a rose. Turkish

A man is what he is, but not what he was. Yiddish

The man of birth pouts not with his cheeks, he pouts in his 
 heart. Bantu

The mantis seizes the locust but does not see the yellow bird 
 behind him. Chinese

Game is cheaper in the market than in the fields and woods.
 English

To eat and drink, and sleep together is marriage, methinks. 
 French

If you always say "no," you'll never be married. Scottish

Before a young couple gets married, the devil wears out seven 
 pairs of moccasins. Estonian

Never marry for money, you'll borrow it cheaper. Scottish

He who cannot see the master, flatters the servant. German

Who can prevent the master from catching fleas with his gloves
 on? Russian

The master has got a cold in the head, and all the servants
 sneeze. Polish

He who eats pears with his master should not choose the best.
 Italian

He who has two masters to serve must lie to one of them. 
 Spanish

Mastery mows the meadows down. Scottish

What may be, may not be. Scottish

Every may-be hath a may-be not. English

Folks sometimes get a good meal out of a dirty dish. (i.e. a good article from a tainted source.) Scottish

Without measure medicine will become poison. Polish

No medicine can cure a vulgar man. Chinese

Medicine that is mixed with food, even if it doesn't cure the
 disease, will cure hunger. Sudanic

Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating. Icelandic

When you casually meet a man, say three short words; by no 
 means show him all your heart. Chinese

When the melon is ripe, it will drop of itself. Chinese

From the roof of a house a melon may roll either of two ways. Chinese

A melon-seller never cries "bitter melons" nor a wine-seller "thin wine." Chinese

Bad memory has its roots in bad attention.

By nature all men are alike, but by education widely different.
 Chinese

Among ten men, nine are women. Turkish

When a wool merchant speaks of sheep he means cloth. 
 Bulgarian

A merry man has paid half of his expenses. German

You'd be a good messenger to send for death.
(Said to one who loiters.) Irish

The land where mice eat iron.
(i.e. great poverty.) Greek

It takes a good many mice to kill a cat. Danish

It cannot be later than midnight.
(i.e. it cannot be worse.) Burmese

At midnight one seems to have a thousand devices; by daylight
 not a move can be made. Chinese

Where there are two midwives, the baby's head is crooked. 
 Persian

Where there's no might, there's no right. Portuguese

Every mile is two in winter. English

Nothing turns sourer than milk. English

Put a miller, a weaver, and a tailor in a bag and shake them, the
 first that comes out will be a thief.

That miller is honest who has hair on his teeth. German

What is bolder than a miller's neckcloth, which takes a thief by
 the throat every morning? German

As many millers, so many bushels – as many parsons, so many 
 creeds. Czech

Peace would be universal, if there were neither mine nor thine. 
 Italian

"Mine" and "thine" divide the world. Polish

Lawyers will live as long as "mine" and thine" exist. German

"Mine and thine" is the source of all lawsuits. Dutch

Without "mine and thine" the world would be heaven. German

Men would live exceedingly quiet if those two words, "mine and 
 thine" were taken away.

A mirror eats up asses and spits out fools. German

The miser and the pig are of no use till dead. French

Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows. English

There is a piece of fortune in misfortune. Japanese

Misfortune makes foes of friends. English

When misfortune sleeps let no one wake her. Spanish

The misfortune that involves many is a pleasure. Spanish

He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing. English

If the mistress breaks, it is an accident; if the servant breaks, it 
 is a fault. Kurdish

When the cup is broken by the mistress of the house, one hears 
 no noise. Kurdish

There is a critical moment for all things. English

The monastery faces the convent; there is nothing going on – 
 but there may be. Chinese

If you have money at all you say it is gospel truth. Chinese

Money does not get hanged. German

Money does not smell. Russian

Money hides a thousand deformities. Chinese

Money is more eloquent than a dozen members of parliament. Danish

Money is the god of the world. English

Money is the only monarch. English

To have money is to add on thirty year's dignity. Chinese

He that is without money might as well be buried in a rice tub
 with his mouth sewed up. Chinese

With money you are a dragon; without it you are a worm. Chinese

It doesn't matter whether you are right or not, if you have no 
 money you are wrong. Chinese

Though you set a monkey on horseback, yet will his hands and 
 feet remain hairy. Chinese

The monkeys laugh at each other's deep eye-sockets. Bantu

Everybody does what he can; dogs bark, wolves howl, and 
 monks lie. German

The most lasting monuments are doubtless paper monuments. 
 English

The full moon is a poor hand to keep secrets. Negro

You cannot coax the morning glory to climb the wrong way round 
 the cornstalks. Negro

A mosquito feels no pity for an emaciated person. Sudanic

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. Semitic

His mother an onion, his father garlic, himself comes out 
 conserve of rose. Turkish

See the mother, comprehend the daughter. Afghanistan

The mother is she who catches the knife by the blade. Bantu

That which reaches the father's knees reaches to the mother's
 heart. Silesian

A mother's love will draw up from the depths of the sea. 
 Russian

What is sucked in with the mother's milk runs out in the shroud. 
 Spanish

Better to look from the mountain than from the dungeon. 
 Servian

If you don't climb the high mountain, you can't view the plain. 
 Chinese

Can a mouse fall in love with a cat? English

The mouse will have a tail.
(i.e. the thing will have a long train of consequences.)

Let not the mouse-trap smell of cheese. English

"Mr. Mouth" hurt his master. Bantu

The mouth is but wind; the pen is a mark. Chinese

A silent mouth is musical. Irish

He that hath a mouth of his own should not say to another, 
 "Blow."

A man must keep his mouth open a long time before a roast 
 pigeon will fly into it. Danish

Once in people's mouths, ‘tis hard to get out of them. German

He who wants a mule without fault must walk on foot. Spanish

Take not a musket to kill a butterfly. English

Must is a king's word.

Nimzo-Indian

Drive the nail that goes the best. English

When one is naked it is better to sit down than to stand up. 
 Hamitic

He that hath the name may as well enjoy the game. English

Get a name to rise early, and you may lie all day. English

A narrow place is large to the narrow-minded. Turkestan

Nine is very near to ten.
(i.e. an exhortation to patience.) Bantu

"Nearly" and "next to" pull no man off his horse. Danish

In things necessary, unity; in things doubtful, liberty; in all 
 things, charity. Latin

Necessity becomes will. Italian

Necessity breaks iron.

When necessity declares she will live with you, you reply, "There 
 is no room." Have you forgotten that she can make room for 
 herself even on the very tip of your nose? Sudanic

Necessity unites hearts. German

Necessity will teach the old to run. Welsh

Need teaches things unlawful.

No needle is sharp at both ends.
(i.e. no man is talented in every direction.) Chinese

Where goes the needle, there goes the thread. Russian

A needle with a small eye should be threaded slowly. (i.e. children should be taught gently and patiently.) Siamese

The Negro has a rib and a cup of blood more than the white 
 man.

If a man would know what he is let him anger his neighbor. 
 German

I speak to you, O daughter-in-law, that you may hear, O 
 neighbor. Egyptian

Does your neighbor bore you, lend him a sequin. Italian

The neighbor calls on the day when I have not done my hair. 
 Spanish

Shut your door and you will make your neighbor good. Spanish

When a neighbor is in your fruit-garden inattention is the truest 
 politeness. Chinese

The house of the one who does not help to put out his 
 neighbor's fire will soon be in danger. Polish

A small piece seems a big piece in your neighbor's hand.
 Albanian

Lock your doors and keep your neighbors honest. Scottish

It is not as thy mother says, but as thy neighbors say. English

In vain the net is spread in the sight of the bird. English

Better go home and make a net than dive into a pool after a 
 fish. Chinese

Do not take hold of a nettle, but if you do, grasp it tight. 
 Afghanistan

He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung. English

Neutrals are soused from above and singed from below. 
 German

Neutrals think to read on eggs and break none. German

A hundred years is not much, but never is a long while. French

Nothing is so new as what has long been forgotten. German

It is almost as good as bringing news not to bring bad news. 
 Irish

He was scarce of news that told his father was hanged. 
 Scottish

He who is always nice is not always nice. Polish

The words of the night are coated with butter; as soon as the
 sun shines they melt away. Egyptian

If the night be dark, the apples will be counted. (i.e. folk take precautions when danger threatens.) 
 Afghanistan

Dark night has no governor. Negro

Last night I thought over a thousand plans, but this morning I 
 went my old way. Chinese

Midsummer night is not long but it sets many cradles rocking. 
 Swedish

The night is the mother of advice. Corsican

"No" is a good answer when given in time. Danish

Don't say "no" till you are asked. English

The nobleman is always in the right when the peasant sues. 
 Russian

Noise and hunting don't go together. Hamitic

One cannot breathe through another's nose. Burmese

The man with nostrils is "Mr. Nose" among the noseless. Indian

An inch in a man's nose is much. English

He whose own nose runs always wants to blow other people's. 
 French

Everything that is round is not a nut. Persian

Opposition

He has an oar in every man's boat. English

Every sore-eyed person is an oculist. German

Who offends writes on sand, who is offended on marble. Italian

It is best to let an offence repeat itself at least three times; the 
 first offence may be an accident; the second a mistake, but the 
 third is likely to be intentional. Sudanic

They that buy an office must sell something. English

Office without pay makes thieves. German

To be an official for one lifetime means seven rebirths as a 
 beggar. Chinese

The friendship of officials is as thin as paper. Chinese

Going downhill no one is old. Japanese

All wish to live long, but not to be called old. Danish

It is when old that the blows received in youth are felt. Welsh

Old age and poverty are two heavy burdens, either is enough. 
 German

An old broom knows the corners of the house. German

If you see an old man running, either he is chasing something or 
 something is chasing him. Sudanic

In old men there is no taste, in young no insight. Hebrew

It is no child's play when an old woman dances. German

Once is never. German

Once is not often and twice is not always. German

"At once" is two hours and a half. Scottish

Be it an onion, let it be given graciously. Afghanistan

Not every opinion is truth. Czech

Live not upon the opinion of other men. English

Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. 
 Bulgarian

Order, counter-order, disorder. French

Give orders and do it yourself and you will be rid of anxiety. 
 Portuguese

Give orders and do no more and nothing will be done. Spanish

He who manages other people's business goes to bed without 
 supper. Italian

He swallowed an ox but choked on the tail. English

The ox lives safely as long as the knife is being sharpened. 
 Finnish

He who greases his wheels helps his oxen. English

When Oxford draws knife, England's soon at strife. English

The owl, too, thinks his son a hawk. Hungarian

Every man thinks his own fleas gazelles. Arabic

Under one's own skin runs blood; under the skin of others, 
 water. Finnish

You may call that your own which no one can take from you. 
 Danish

One hand for the owner and one for yourself. English

The owner has one house, the renter a thousand. Turkish

The foot of the owner is the best manure for the land. English

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