An Unbelievable Mate
Submitted by
RookHouse on Mon, 02/09/2009 at 6:45pm.
During my extensive research on Jackson Showalter, I recently came across an article from 1916 that details an inexplicable eleven move checkmate suffered by then American chess champion Frank Marshall at a Brooklyn, New York simul.
The article from the April 23rd, 1916 edition of the Washington Post is shown on my website at www.rookhouse.com/blog and the moves of the game are given below:
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