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B20 - Sicilian Defense - Wing Gambit

Frank James Marshall (August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944), was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909–1936, and was one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century.
Marshall was best known for his great tactical skill. One aspect of this was the "Marshall swindle", where a trick would turn a lost game around. Andrew Soltis writes that, "In later years his prowess at rescuing the irretrievable took on magical proportions". Not so well known now, but appreciated in his day, was his endgame skill.
Marshall was also a proponent of the now obscure SD Wing Gambit.
SOURCES: Wikipedia (Bio and image); Batsford Chess Openings 2 ©1989 by GMs Kasparov & Keene (BCO-2), pp 286-7: Encyclopedia of Chess Openings 2nd ed © 1984 (ECO) B20 by GM Gufeld pp 142-3; Inside Chess Openings (ICO) pp 67-8; Modern Chess Openings 10 © 1965 by GM Evans (MCO X) p 226; MCO-XV © 2008 by GM Nick de Firmian pp 360-1; Nunn's Chess Openings © 1999 by GMs Nunn, Emms & Gallagher (NCO) p. 156; Marshall's Best Games © 1942 by GM Frank Marshall pp. 238-9 (Marshall)

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  • 12 months ago

    ptrckmackay

    Amazing swindle!!!

    Thank you for posting the additional games, now the blog is complete and interesting Smile

    Great job by NimzoRoy and sollevy10.

  • 12 months ago

    NimzoRoy

    NM Kallatroh feel free to post any of your wins with the Wing Gambit here!

  • 12 months ago

    NM Kallatroh

    My score is 2/3 against one gm and two ims with this opening.

  • 12 months ago

    sollevy10

    It's fun playing the Wing Gambit. Our group, The Old School, recently played a TVC game against the Vote Chess Masters. Gambiting a pawn in the opening was just the start. In order to prevent black from completing its development, we sacrificed a rook and a minor piece. Two of our teammates are experts in this opening, cup_of_cow and pyrotechnica who played the game like magicians.

    The game is shown below. The famous Marshall swindle is shown after our game.


    for explanation on the Marshall swindle, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swindle_%28chess%29#Famous_swindles

  • 12 months ago

    didiz1016

    the wing gambit is just an alipin in the sicilian defence with a pawn up.   It's one of the dumbest openings that i know

  • 12 months ago

    MrMars

    Dzindzi said not to play the wing gambit, so I wont

  • 12 months ago

    NimzoRoy

    Unfortunately this game is not in my CB BIG DB 2011 (updated to 2012 with 5.3 million games). If anyone else can find it I'll be glad to post it here. I copied another game that continues on from the end of the main game here but note that the players are rated 1981(W) and 1765 (B)

    I have no idea if there was a "Marshall Swindle" in the rest of the game or not.  I included this bit of info in Marshall's bio here since he is famous for pulling off many "swindles" in his own games.

    I appreciate all the feedback here, it encourages me to keep on writing blogs!

  • 12 months ago

    ptrckmackay

    NimzoRoy, I agree with MrMars the blog just needs the rest of the game to to change from an incomplete blog that dissapoints the reader to become a really good satisfying blog, because after 11...,Na6 it is unclear how white managed to draw the game. We wanted to see the "Marshall Swindle"  that you mentioned in introduction text that saves the game for white.

    I hope you can update this blog with the moves of the rest of the game, the moves do not need to be analyzed or commented, maybe only the "Marshall Swindle" has to be pointed out with a small comment like "this is the beginning of the "Marshall Swindle" that saves the game for white". And maybe also "black could have avoided the "Marshall Swindle" by ...".

    I believe that I should have originally wrote a constructive critique pointing out what the blog needed to be a complete satisfying experience for the reader instead of getting upset and writing a negative comment, but I just did not know this were free blogs wrote by regular chess.com members and not chess.com featured paid articles wrote by professional chess masters who make a living of teaching chess. 

    Thank you for your effort and please complete the blog, I'm really interested to see how white saved the game with the "Marshall Swindle".

  • 12 months ago

    NimzoRoy

    @ptrckmackay    thanks for getting back here at first I was very indignant after putting in a lot of work (well typing really) to fix this blog but now your explanation clears things up - I'd be disappointed if a Master or IM wrote a blog like this too!

  • 12 months ago

    ori0

    This is great! thank you Roy.

  • 12 months ago

    ptrckmackay

    Hey NimzoRoy, I'm sorry I did not noticed that your post is a blog made by a regular chess.com member and not a featured paid article posted by one of the chess masters that usually write or make videos for this website.

    Now I understand that all members can post blogs that everyone else can see. Maybe one day I will post a blog so you can critique Laughing

    Once more I'm sorry for my comment.

  • 12 months ago

    NimzoRoy

    Seriously guys what's the problem here? I'd like to know so that I can make future blogs of this sort better. All I was trying to do was collate as much material as I could find on this line from reputable sources such as BCO, ECO, MCO etc. Maybe 2 blogs (SD - Wing Gambit Accepted and SD - Wing Gambit Declined) would've helped to cut down on trying to  navigate thru all the variations and sub-variations?

  • 12 months ago

    ptrckmackay

    OK guys I'm removing my comments, no intention to upset anyone.

  • 12 months ago

    EliasAStern

    cmon guys... where is the love?

  • 12 months ago

    ptrckmackay

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  • 12 months ago

    NimzoRoy

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  • 12 months ago

    ptrckmackay

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  • 12 months ago

    NimzoRoy

    There is no "rest of the game" here, but here's the data on it:

    Porrasmaa-Kask, Corr. 1987. "White has insufficient compensation for the pawn." MCO-XV FN [q]

    This was one of my first blogs and it's missing a lot of positional assessments, I'll eventually "fill in the gaps" here

  • 12 months ago

    MrMars

    wheres the rest of the game?

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