Chess Openings, Ruy Lopez (C89), Marshall counter-attack, 11...c6

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Ruy LopezRuy LopezRuy Lopez

Annotated chess games with this chess opening:

chess opening #61378

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Quick Play Game
Charles L Higgie (2038) vs. penelope80 (1747)

Annotated by charleshiggie (2222): This was the second of games with this time limit - it is the longest setting on the blitz section. I had won the previous one, on the white side of a Nimzo-Indian fairly comfortably. As she had annotated that one http://gameknot.com/annotation.pl/real-time-game?gm=61234 I felt duty bound to annotate this one. I opened e2-e4 to make a change. I had opened d2-d4 against her in our previous game.…

chess opening #331

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Manhattan CC Masters Tournament, New York
Jose Raul Capablanca vs. Frank J. Marshall

Annotated by ethansiegel (1986): This is NOT one of my chess games -- this is the famous "Marshall Gambit" game, where Frank Marshall prepared a little surprise for Jose Raul Capablanca. Marshall comes up with an opening novelty where, for a sacrificed pawn, he gets a ferocious attack. But, despite this being the first appearance of the gambit, Capablanca takes him down with accurate, spectacular defense, followed by an…

chess opening #846

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How to play the Marshall as black!
silhouet2003 (1675) vs. ethansiegel (1755)

Annotated by ethansiegel (1986): As those of you who've seen the original Marshall gambit game (Capablanca-Marshall, 1918) know, the Marshall gambit gives black a tremendous counterattack against the closed Ruy Lopez. Capablanca managed to defeat Marshall in the first appearance of that gambit, but I fell in love with Marshall's brave play in that game. Here's my first game at gameknot where I had the opportunity to play the…