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Marshall was born in New York City, and lived in Montreal, Canada, from age 8 to 19. He began playing chess at the age of 10, and by 1890 (aged 13) was one of the leading players in Montreal. Marshall (fifth from left) at the St. Louis tournament (1904), which he won. He won the 1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress (scoring 13/15 ...
Aug 24, 2023 · Frank Marshall started the 1910s with a bracingly clear sense of what his ceiling as a player was. In match play against the super-elite players of his era — Lasker, Tarrasch, Rubinstein, Capablanca — he had a combined score of +4-27=33. That record meant that Marshall would never again be in the conversation...
Frank James Marshall (1877-1944) was a brilliant attacking player and the United States chess champion from 1909 to 1936. When he played for the world championship in 1907, he was soundly defeated by defending champion Emanuel Lasker. Marshall was not strong enough defensively to become a true world championship contender, but he nonetheless ...
The Marshall Attack had been played before 1918 by lesser known players [3] [4] and by Marshall himself in 1917. [5] [6] Its most famous game, called "one of the most famous games in history" by Chessbase Chess News, [7] is Capablanca vs. Marshall, played in 1918 at the Manhattan Chess Club in New York.
Nov 2, 2024 · The book again showed Mitchell’s interest in the career of Marshall, and pages 76-78 gave a game Eddy v Marshall: ‘Frank J. Marshall recently encountered A.J. Eddy, a well-known chessplayer from Chicago, at the rooms of the Manhattan Chess Club, New York City, in a series of games, the object of which was to test the Queen’s Gambit Declined opening.’
Mar 21, 2017 · On a visit to a French café with his father, Marshall defeated the best player. In 1936 after holding the U.S. championship title for 27 years. Frank Marshall of New York City was one of the strongest players in the world. He founded the famous Marshall Chess Club in New York City and encouraged many young players.
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A Century of Chess: Frank Marshall (1900-1909) A quirk of chess history is the recurring figure of the lone American genius who travels to Europe and takes the continent by storm. This has happened more times, and had a more profound impact on chess, than one might expect. There's Morphy in 1858, Pillsbury in 1895, Capablanca in 1911, Fischer ...
