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Also during this period Marshall displayed his Ruy Lopez gambit against Capablanca in 1918. In 1909, he was defeated in a match by a young Jose Raul Capablanca. (In 1909, Capablanca soundly defeated Marshall in a match, although no title was on the line.)
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His father, a flour mill salesman, was a native of London, England; his mother was of Scotch-Irish descent. A charming host, modest and kindly, he encouraged a generation of visiting players, both tyros and masters, at his various clubs.
Frank James Marshall (1877-1944) was a brilliant attacking player and the United States chess champion from 1909 to 1936.
The first player to win eight games would be the winner.
The match did not go well for Marshall, as he immediately dropped three games, two with the white pieces. Starting with game 12, Marshall lost four in a row, the last of which gave Lasker a +8 -0 =7 victory.
Marshall wasn’t embarrassed in any particular game, other than the 21-move 14th contest.
But after two more draws, Marshall won three in a row and was well on his way to a +7 -2 =3 victory. Champion (1909-36)
The United States chess championship was held by either Showalter or Pillsbury for most of the 1890s. His opening ideas remain relevant today and his tactical prowess, as demonstrated against Levitsky and others, remains memorable.
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Frank Marshall enjoyed the longest and most untroubled reign of any U.S. Champion from the time he earned and accepted the title in 1909 until he resigned it in 1936. His main contributions to chess theory were in the Max Lange opening, the Marshall Gambit in the Semi-Slav Defense, and the Marshall Counter Attack in the Ruy Lopez opening.
The match got less bloody thereafter with draws in four of the next six games, but Marshall won the two exceptions, games 10 and 12. Marshall won twice, including the final game, below, against Showalter's Albin Counter to the Queen's Gambit.
Marshall defended the U.S. Championship once, in 1923 against Edward Lasker (not to be confused with Emanuel, his distant relative).
His autobiography, My Fifty Years of Chess, was published in 1942 and details his half-century of experience as a world-class chess player and champion.
Preoccupied with chess, he studied and replayed the games of the great master Paul Charles Morphy. He was the second of seven sons of Alfred George and Sarah Ann (Graham) Marshall. e4 and 1. Over the next eight games, he managed seven draws, but also lost for the fourth time in game eight. Life magazine described Marshall in his last years as a "preoccupied old gentleman who looks like a Shakespearean actor.