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| Jun-01-18 | | sudoplatov: I probably mentioned this before, several tribute to Lasker laud him for being able to save lost positions. Marshall is criticized from swindling his way out of lost positions. |
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| Nov-22-18 | | thegoodanarchist: Wasn't it Marshall who won The Gold Coin Game, with Black? I don't see it in the "Notable Games" list. |
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Nov-22-18
 | | Sally Simpson: S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912 |
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| Dec-02-18 | | The Rocket: Marshall or Nezhmetdinov - finest tactican/calculator of all time? I would have to give the edge to Nez, but I don't recall Marshall ever missing any tactics either. Marshall was for sure stronger than Alekhine in the tactics department, which Reuben Fine also submits. |
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| Dec-02-18 | | The Rocket: I guess Bronstein is in that list too. He's an equally creative player, at the very least. |
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Feb-24-19
 | | mifralu: On November 21, 1892, Marshall played Emanuel Lasker when Lasker was giving a 24-board simultaneous exhibition in Montreal. Marshall lost; Lasker scored
+21 -1 =2.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?... |
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Feb-24-19
 | | MissScarlett: Nice find. Marshall was only 15. No doubt this was covered by Hilbert in <Young Marshall> (Moravian 2002), but it's news to me. Note that <Whyld (1998)> gives the date of this simul (with the scores of the games vs. Robertson and Bertrand) as November 22nd, based on the <Montreal Daily Herald 23-11-92>. Your link shows it was, in fact, the <Herald> of November 22nd, and the date at page top has evidently been misread. |
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Feb-24-19
| | Sally Simpson: ***
It's strange how Marshall never mentions this game. He talks about simuls v Steinitz and Pillsbury (both in 1893) adding the first time his name appeared in print was in Le Monde (Montreal) 1893 after the Steinitz game. Later in his 'Fifty Years of Chess' game 7 v Lasker. He says this is the first time we met over the board. I know Marshall was a bit liberal with the facts regarding some his games and life but one would think you could hardly forget playing Lasker. (it was not Marshall senior, he was called Alfred George.) *** |
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Feb-24-19
 | | Telemus: <MissScarlett: No doubt this was covered by Hilbert in <Young Marshall> (Moravian 2002)> Hilbert is overrated, especially when it comes to Lasker. |
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| May-01-20 | | The Rocket: The million dollar question; Marshall or Nezhmetdinov - who was the better tactician? Let's hear your guys take. I know of no other player even remotely close to these two guys in that area. |
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| Mar-05-21 | | thelegendisback: <I know of no other player even remotely close to these two guys in that area.> If you know of no player who is even remotely close to these two guys it only means you really know little about chess. |
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| Mar-05-21 | | sudoplatov: Marshall was probably better though some of this was in his endgame play. Marshall remained in the top 20 from 1902 to 1928 (with more excursions into that rating later). Marshall won some big tournaments: Cambridge Springs 1904, Scheveningen 1905, Nuremberg 1906, Dusseldorf 1908, and some smaller ones with only Capablanca or Janowski or Duras as big opponents. Marshall's style was more attacking and less sacrificial (Alekhine, Lasker, and Capablanca also played some long range attacks.) |
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Apr-13-21
 | | fredthebear: A summary of Frank Marshall's long career: http://www.brasilbase.pro.br/Frank.... |
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May-18-21
 | | Phony Benoni: From the <New York Times>, Monday, March 15, 1943) reporting on the Marshall Chess Club's Metropolitan Chess League Match on the previous Saturday, March 13: <NARSHALL TRIUMPHS IN SEVEN MOVESBeats Howard to Pace Victory Over North Jersey at Chess The Mardhall Chess Club gained another point in the in the senior division of the annual competition for the championship of the Metropolitan Chess League by yesterday defeating the the visiting North Jersey team, 7½ to ½. "Frank J. Marshall, former national chamion, won from F. Howard in seven moves....> That's it. No score, no comments or description. Nor have I been able to find a metion of the game elsewhere. Does anyone have more information about the game. Yes, it's undoubededly a very poor game, no doubt quite embarrassing for Howard. But someone must have been sadistic enough to write down the moves somewhere! |
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| Feb-07-22 | | arthurp: I enjoy Marshall's games very much but he having the US championship for 30+years?!
He did not play a match for the US champ. until 1923 against Edward Lasker.Praising some one for holding onto a championship by not playing anyone is strange.Reshevsky,Dake,Kashdan and others were willing to play.Marshall deserves a lot of credit for the quality of his games and his tournament victories! |
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Feb-28-22
| | fredthebear: The next-to-last line says Marshall dies of a heart attack: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial... I've been to my share of cemeteries but have never seen a headstone w/such a list of names as that including Marshall. Here's a Bill Wall post: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... "Move more, sit less" says the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/... |
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Feb-28-22
 | | jnpope: <arthurp: I enjoy Marshall's games very much but he having the US championship for 30+years?! He did not play a match for the US champ. until 1923 against Edward Lasker.Praising some one for holding onto a championship by not playing anyone is strange.> Depends. If nobody thought they could beat Marshall during that period and he was left "unchallenged" how would that be the man's fault? Admittedly I have not done a deep dive into Marshall to see if he had asked for an unreasonable amount as stakes for a match, or if he just outright refused to play challengers who offered to play for reasonable stakes, in which case I think one can ding Marshall for skirting challengers to hold the title, but if nobody is willing to risk playing him then I think his time as US Champion should be considered as fairly earned. |
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| Aug-24-22 | | Fyffe123: Marshall played a telegraph match against Alfred Porter, Saint John NB, on February 1, 1894. Adjudicated a draw by James Narraway. |
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| Aug-24-22 | | Fyffe123: In regards to game of the young Marshall (-) with Lasker (+)in the 1892 Montreal simul, any record of the moves have been lost to the dust bin of history. |
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| Aug-24-22 | | Fyffe123: Young Marshall, p. 10, footnote 29 should read:
" La Monde Illustre for Dec. 2, l893" |
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| Oct-05-22 | | Honest Adin Reviews: too much is spent talking on morphy, that's good but... marshall frank james was great, his u.s. championship longevity is amazing! however he did not defend his title too often! |
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| Mar-21-23 | | stone free or die: I never realized that Frank's wedding caused such waves, on both sides of the family, just before his departure to Paris. Hopefully the ocean trip was smoother:
https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/...
("Was a runaway match" c3) |
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| Mar-21-23 | | Granny O Doul: I'm wondering where I can get my hand's on some Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar. In "My Fifty Years of Chess", Marshall (or whoever actually wrote it) reported that he informed her parents of something like "I have fallen in love with your daughter and I'm going to steal her from you". |
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| Mar-21-23 | | Dionysius1: <Granny O Doul: I'm wondering where I can get my hand's on some Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.> Blimey, Granny, you're testing me now. You mean as a replacement during NICE's precautionary withdrawal of medications containing Pholcodine? I liked the sound of Benylin For Chesty Cough when I was a kid. I reckoned he sounded like the next Russian ballet dancer ready to defect. Good old Benny. |
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| Mar-21-23 | | stone free or die: Horehound - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marru... I was a little disappointed to see it wasn't an animal extraction. |
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