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opening theory Marshall Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.c3 d5 9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Nxe5 Nxe5 11.Rxe5 c6 12.d4 Bd6 13.Re1
Well, that's the story. The truth may be a little different...
"I thought for a little while before playing this, knowing I would be subjected there-after to a terrific attack, all the lines of which would of necessity be familiar to my adversary. The lust of battle, however, had been aroused within me. I felt that my judgment and skill were being challenged by a player who had reason to fear both, (as shown by the records of our previous encounters); but who wanted to take advantage of the element of surprise and of the fact of my being unfamiliar with a thing to which he had devoted many a night of toil and hard work. I considered the position then and decided I was in honour bound, so to speak, to take the Pawn and accept the challenge ... as my knowledge and judgment told me that my position should then be defensible." - Jose R. Capablanca. ( From his great book, "My Chess Career." ) Here's this famous game:
And the Gambit itself? From Wikipedia - Marshall Attack:
We've gathered here some Marshall Gambit resources, to help you learn more about - and play - this fascinating opening line. First, a games database includes 32,326 lines and games in this famous opening gambit line, compiled by Clyde Nakamura (The Search for Dragons & Mythical Chess Openings). These games were played between 1901 and 2009, and include games played (as Black) by the likes of Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Vassily Ivanchuk, Etienne Bacrot, Ivan Sokolov, Peter Svidler, Gata Kamsky, Nigel Short and Peter Leko, as well as a large number of engine-engine games. Download this 7.7 MB zipped PGN file
Victor Rosas - Jeremy Scheinback
In this series I will try to give you an idea of how to play the Marshall Attack from black’s perspective. The Marshall Attack, which is in fact a gambit, is a very good black weapon against the Ruy Lopez and I plan to show you how to handle the most common white ways of defending against it… The attack, or gambit if you like, was invented by Frank Marshall in the early 1900’s. He had tried it out in a few games before playing it against Capablanca in 1918. Marshall eventually lost the game against the world champion, but the idea was born and has developed in the last 90 years, making it one of the important contributions to chess opening theory. And easily one of the most analyzed, too...
In his article today at ChessBase, “A New Marshall Gambit,” Lars Schandorff discusses the line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5,O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 O-O 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 d5!? which might be called the "Marshall Two-Step" or "Delayed Marshall Gambit." Schandorff writes: "For a traditional chess mind it doesn't make sense and probably some of the ancient masters would turn in their graves if they knew about it. They always played the normal 10...c5 with a typical Ruy Lopez game. But ...d5? Are you serious?" In the new age of chess realism, though, we must say, "If it works, it's good" and the games that Schandorff cites prove that Black is doing well...
Hi Joel, Is there anything concretely wrong with 11…Bb7 in the Marshall Attack of the Ruy Lopez, instead of the overwhelmingly more popular 11...c6? I have done some analysis myself and Black seems perfectly fine. I even put it into Deep Fritz 10 overnight and it even likes Bb7 better! I understand that it is still pretty early in the game for an accurate evaluation from an engine, but its opinion shouldn't be overlooked after an all-nighter either...
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What
is the truth though, is Capablanca's equally famous reaction, encapsulated here in
his own words:
