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“We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer’s nature”
-Rudolf Spielman
-Rudolf Spielman
Yes, chess is all about making sacrifices to win. I am not a very good chess player, but I love playing chess alot. This is a blog about the Marshall Swindle Chess Move in which the player named 'Frank Marshal' sacrificed his queen and he won the match. This move is also known as "shower of gold move".
“Anyone can sacrifice a Queen. The trick is getting away with it.”
-Arthur Shaw (from the movie Tower Heist)
Instead of the chess numbers and letters language; I have made images of the moves just to explain you guys(hurray me:)
So what is the move? The move is Qg3
Now if you notice the queen can be captured by 3 different ways and still white loses the game.
Capture queen with Hxg3. White plays Ne2, checkmate.
Capture queen with fxg3. White plays Ne2, check. Black plays Kh1. Then Rxf, checkmate.
Capture queen with Qxg3. Then Ne2+ Kh1 Nxg3+ and Black will keep his extra piece.
What if white does not capture the queen and tries to escape the Qh2 checkmate? Then Nh1+ Kh1 Qh2, checkmate.
And this was an fantastic move played by Frank Marshal. So the moral of the story is sacrifice your queen in the right manner and you will win.
Now give me a like! Making all those images was a very time consuming job:D
2 comments
Hold the phone a second. Look at the one where he captured the black queen with the white queen (Capture queen with Qxg3).
What if, after the black knight has taking the white queen, the left white pawn above the king knocks out that knight. You have yourself a continued game.
You're not swindling me Mr. Marshall!
See the second example. If the left pawn on f2 takes the night (f2xg3), then the black rook on f8 takes the white rook on f1 (f8xf1). Checkmate! You've been swindled!
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