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Charles Henry Stanley vs Eugene Rousseau
Rousseau - Stanley (1845), New Orleans, LA USA, rd 25, Dec-22
Sicilian Defense: Marshall Counterattack (B40)  ·  1/2-1/2

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I think Stanley was happy about the pin on the g-pawn.


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After 35. h4 I think Stanley forget that ...gxh4 would be check. White quickly loses all his kingside pawns.

Aug-10-23  generror: The original Marshall Counterattack. It may not be a GM or Stockfish favourite, but by golly it's fun to play against unassuming twelvehundreds. Especially if they get greedy and play <5.dxc5? Bxc5 6.Nc3 Nf6 7.Bg5 O-O! 8.Bxf6 Qxf6 9.Nxd5?!>. Now <9...Qxb2!> looks like a blunder, but the blunder is <10.Nc7??>, because after <10...Qc3+!> (D) White is utterly, utterly lost :) At the very least, they will lose a piece, but usually they lose a rook, and rook AND a piece, their queen, or their king.


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That was one of my best opening discoveries with Stockfish, although everybody else probably has known it for hundreds of years. Even if White knows the lines, Black is quite okay and gets a solid position. <3...d5!?> gives Black more air and space than other Sicilian lines, and although I do like French/Kan Sicilian positions in general, sometimes it's gotta be the Marshall. Definitively one of his better opening ideas (and they are all amazingly similar, unexpected/anti-positional central pawn thrusts).

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