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Frank Marshall vs Carl Schlechter
Barmen Meisterturnier A (1905), Barmen GER, rd 3, Aug-16
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense. Rubinstein Variation (D61)  ·  1-0

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Aug-17-08  hitsujyun: 7. ...Re8
8. h4 c6

It's written in the book "MARSHALL'S BEST GAMES OF CHESS".

May-23-18
Premium Chessgames Member
  Phony Benoni: "American Chess Bulletin", November 19005, p. 344, also has the order of move 7..Re8 and 8...c6.

Interesting that
Alekhine vs De Pedro, 1922, which essentially uplicates this game has the 7...Re8 / 8...c6 order of moves.

Apr-05-19  zydeco: A triumph for Marshall’s h4 setup. It’s pretty incredible how quickly black’s position collapses. I guess the culprit is 17....Rc8 - the rook belongs on d8. 18....c5 seems like the most principled under the circumstances. 19...Rd8 holds on better, but, already, black is losing material after 20.Bb6.
Dec-24-22  sudoplatov: A short analysis with Stockfish indicates that 14...f6 is the first big mistake, 14...b6 is safer. (Later, I'll look with a more powerful fish.)
Mar-03-24
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  kingscrusher: It is interesting that actually 7...c6 prompts modern engines to suggest that 8.h4 is actually the strongest move.

Whilst on the Alekhine Simul game, the move Re8 - does not really justify an immediate h4. The reason being perhaps black could strike with c5 in one go. But in the Alekhine game after h4, it transposed to this one with c6 being played.

So we have Black playing both moves Re8 and c6 in response to White's interesting h4 in both games.

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