Fun with the Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack

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About 6-7 years ago, I played a lot of chess, started to learn some theory, then quit until about 3 months ago. One of the bits of theory I still remember is the Marshall attack. I go into a few of the alternate lines I know. The marshall attack is really fun to play if white lets you do it with c3 d5! Basically you tell white, " Have a pawn. You can have the pawns in the center as long as my knight can be there. Go ahead and exchange your bishop." You point your bishop(s) at the castled king, and send your queen to h4. That's the idea with the marshall attack. I show some stockfish lines too. For the "critical" move, I ended up playing the right one, but I couldn't calculate everything. I just thought of a Tal quote: "There are 2 types of sacrifices: correct ones, and mine". Well, this turned out to be correct too. Hopefully this is entertaining/informative for you all.

 

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