| Dec-18-04 | | BlazingArrow56: A nice mating pattern if nothing else. |
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| Mar-24-05 | | Autoreparaturwerkbau: <Rocketchess2000> Personally i prefer Marshall's Marshall vs Capablanca, 1909 |
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| Apr-05-05 | | TigerPawns: what a crap game |
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| 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). |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Jun-13-07 | | ycsidney: Why did black decline the sac??? Short must have a reason! Hope to read his say. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Jul-01-08 | | JonathanJ: this is some honest annotation! |
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| Dec-23-08 | | WhiteRook48: This is a ha ha ha ha ha ha ha game. So no joke with Frank Marshall? |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Mar-07-09 | | WhiteRook48: he was too Short to look down at the board |
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| Mar-18-09 | | WhiteRook48: 8 Bxf7+? Kxf7 9 Ng5+? Qxg5! 10 Bxg5 Bxd1 11 Rxd1 and Black is up a piece |
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| 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. |
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| 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! |
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Aug-10-13
 | | juan31: Lo hace ver tan facil, por algo fue campeon de los EUA tantos años 35, seguro esta en el cielo del ajedrez en este su cumple. |
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| Sep-04-13 | | offramp: For most of the game black was ahead in development, but it was ineffective development. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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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| Aug-08-21 | | goodevans: Short and Frank |
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| Aug-09-21 | | goodevans: 11...Bf7 looks better to me although White would still be calling the shots. |
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