Frank James Marshall vs Robert Short (1894)

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Frank James Marshall vs Robert Short
ch Montreal CC (1894)
Italian Game: Evans Gambit (C51) · 1-0

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Annotations by Frank James Marshall. [9 more games annotated by Marshall]

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Dec-18-04		BlazingArrow56: A nice mating pattern if nothing else.

Mar-24-05		Autoreparaturwerkbau: <Rocketchess2000> Personally i prefer Marshall's Marshall vs Capablanca, 1909

Apr-05-05		TigerPawns: what a crap game

Jun-30-05		Knight13: 8. Bxf7+? Is unsound, I agree. Black should've accept it. 8... Kxf7 9. Ng5+ Qxg5 10. Bxg5 Bxd1 11. Rxd1 (not playable).

Aug-05-05		who: It seems like a good way to take the fun out of chess is to decline sacrifices even if you don't know why/if they are unsound.

Sep-04-06		Tariqov: No, i doubt he was scared of the simple Ng5+, but i think he was scared of Qb3+, but even after then it is not enough.

Dec-19-06		InspiredByMorphy: If 8.Bxf7+ Kxf7 9.Ng5+ Qxg5 10.Qb3+ then black can respond with 10. ...Be6 11.Qxe6+ Kxe6 12.Bxg5 and white is still down a piece.

Jun-13-07		ycsidney: Why did black decline the sac??? Short must have a reason! Hope to read his say.

Jun-13-07		Tomlinsky: <ycsidney: Why did black decline the sac??? Short must have a reason! Hope to read his say.> You'll have a long wait. He died 80 years ago.

Feb-16-08		holy tramp: Isn't 17.Bf5 better, setting up a fork to win the black queen? I don't have a Fritz-type program to see it through... Had just played 17. Bf5 on GuessTheMove and LOST 2 points, so I must be missing something obvious.

Jul-01-08		JonathanJ: this is some honest annotation!

Dec-23-08		WhiteRook48: This is a ha ha ha ha ha ha ha game. So no joke with Frank Marshall?

Jan-30-09		ciastekx: <holy tramp: Isn't 17.Bf5 better, setting up a fork to win the black queen?> It is better to give mate in two than to win the queen. After 17.Nh5+ Black has no choice, but to walk into mate by 17...Ke8.

Feb-18-09		swarmoflocusts: The sacrifice is unsound: 8...Kxf7 and white has nothing better than 9.b5 (Fritz eval. -2.57). After 9.Ng5 Qxg5 10.Qb3+ Be6 11.Bxg5 (best) Bxb3 12.axb3, Fritz eval. -4.67. However, even after 8...Kf8, black has a perfectly playable game (Fritz eval. 0.15). His first major mistake (besides declining the sacrifice) was Nge7, giving Marshall a 1.66 advantage. Qd7 -- 6.75 - better was Qc8. Kf8 was imperfect (7.37 -- Kd8 was only 6.84) but he was lost anyway. Finally, Bxe4 allowed mate in two, where Ng8 - 8.08. Marshall didn't make any mistakes from the sac on.

Mar-07-09		WhiteRook48: he was too Short to look down at the board

Mar-18-09		WhiteRook48: 8 Bxf7+? Kxf7 9 Ng5+? Qxg5! 10 Bxg5 Bxd1 11 Rxd1 and Black is up a piece

Oct-26-10		tentsewang: Nice game! Though there were blunders but you can't complain when a 17 year old "Marshall" goes and beats a reigning Canadian champion.

Aug-02-12		Cemoblanca: For me, today is "Frank James Marshall Day"! ;0) Just checking out some of his amazing games! It's always a pleasure to watch an artisan at work! :0) RIP!

Aug-10-13		juan31: Lo hace ver tan facil, por algo fue campeon de los EUA tantos a�os 35, seguro esta en el cielo del ajedrez en este su cumple.

Sep-04-13		offramp: For most of the game black was ahead in development, but it was ineffective development.

May-15-14		ljfyffe: In my research, I found no Montreal Chess Club Championship in 1894. There was, however, a Handicap tourney where Short and Marshall would play even.

Jun-27-14		ljfyffe: And the year before, Marshall beat Joseph Ney Babson in a play-off to win the Montreal Chess Club handicap championship for that year.

Jun-30-14		ljfyffe: Short won the Canadian championship in 1890. The Amyot listed by Stephen Wright's Early Canadian Championships would be Col. J.B. Amyot of Quebec (only last name given).

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