Assange tweets Capablanca-Marshall position

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OldPatzerMike

There is a lot of speculation about the meaning of Julian Assange's tweet consisting only of the position after move 24 of the famous encounter between Capablanca and Frank Marshall at the New York 1918 tournament. That was the game in which the Marshall Attack was first used. Marshall had prepared it for the occasion, and Capa refuted it over the board.

I'm not especially interested in the politics of the Assange situation, but I do find it very interesting that he apparently knows enough about chess to be tweeting this position.

Here's a link to the article: https://www.rt.com/news/415802-assange-cryptic-chess-tweet/

notmtwain

That link pulls up suspicious looking pages.

However, chessbase has a good article about it:

https://en.chessbase.com/post/wikileaks-founder-on-capablanca-vs-marshall-1918

hairhorn

Maybe he's just trolling, that's all anyone ever does on Twitter.