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"New" Game by Frank James Marshall? Reported by David Surratt Russell "Rusty" Miller has been a pillar of the Pacific Northwest chess community since before I learned the game back in 1970. Now semi-retired, Rusty does a lot of research for various chess projects. Recently Rusty emailed me about a discovery he may have made: "While looking online at the Brooklyn Eagle Newspaper (1841-1902) I think I have found a NEW Frank Marshall game, apparently played as part of a Brooklyn Chess Club Championship. It was in the Brooklyn Eagle for January 6, 1901 on page 13 in a column by Helms. He had two columns that day I believe." Here is the game: Marshall,F - Howell,C [A85] [Click here to follow the game on an interactive JavaScript board.] 1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 0-0 6.Nf3 b6 7.Bd3 Bb7 8.0-0 Ne4 9.Bxe7 Qxe7 10.Bxe4 fxe4 11.Nd2 d5 12.cxd5 exd5 13.Qb3 Qf7 14.f3 exf3 15.Rxf3 Qe6 16.Rxf8+ Kxf8 17.e4 Nc6 18.Rf1+ Kg8 19.Nxd5 Nxd4 20.Qc4 c5 21.Nb3 Kh8 22.Nd2 Rd8 23.Kh1 h6 24.Nc3 Qxc4 25.Nxc4 b5 26.Ne5 Kg8 27.Ng6 b4 28.Nd5 Bxd5 29.exd5 Kh7 30.Nf8+ Kg8 31.Ng6 Rd6 32.Ne7+ Kh7 33.h4 Rd7 34.Re1 Nb5 35.h5 c4 36.g4 c3 37.Ng6 Rd8 38.bxc3 bxc3 39.Rc1 Rxd5 40.a4 Rd2 41.Ne5 c2 42.Nd3 Nd6 43.Ne1 Rd1 44.Kg2 Rxc1 0-1 "Marshall felt that he could have won with 18.Nxd5, and later held the draw with 35.b3." Neither Rusty nor I have been able to find this game anywhere else, but of course that doesn't mean someone else might not be aware of it. I searched the ChessBase MegaDataBase 2003, as well as the Pitt U. Chess Archive, the ChessBase - Online Database, the ChessLab site, and the games database at the Frank James Marshall Electronic Archive and Museum. The only games I can find between these two combatants that year (1901) were in the NYSCA Masters at Buffalo, New York. Seems Howell owned Marshall at that event too, winning both games. I was able to find a reference to Marshall participating in a Brooklyn Chess Club Championship in 1901 on the FJMEA&M, which shows only a partial crosstable for the event, so the game score is at least plausible. UPDATE, January 1, 2003: It turns out that chess historian John Hilbert had already published this game, in his book Young Marshall (Moravian Chess Publishing, 2003). John reports that the game "appears as game number 172 at p.262. I extended Young Marshall past the arbitrary date I set, of December 31, 1900, through January 1901, to include the Manhattan and Brooklyn Chess Club championships, as well as Marshall's sailing off to Monte Carlo 1901. I had the Howell game from William Napier's Pittsburg Dispatch column of January 14, 1901." Thanks John!
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