title: Frank Marshall, United States Chess Champion: A Biography with 220 Games
author: Andy Soltis
description: "Recommended." --Chess Horizons<br /><br />"'Unputdownable'...thoroughly researched and splendidly written." --British Chess Magazine<br /><br />"This biography and catalog of Marshall pays off handsomely for chess enthusiasts...the games themselves...ably described by grandmaster and chess journalist Soltis..are the soul of the book." --Booklist/RBB
zlib_text: TO THE MARSHALL CHESS CLUB 
  
  FRANK MARSHALL, 
  UNITED STATES 
  CHESS CHAMPION 
  A Biography with 220 Games
  by 
  Grandmaster Andy Soltis 
  McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 
  Jefferson, North Carolina, and London 
  
  British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication data are available 
  Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data 
  Soltis, Andy, 1947-
  Frank Marshall, United States chess champion : a biography with 
  220 games I by Andy Soltis. 
  p. cm. 
  Includes bibliographical references and index. 
  ISBN-13: 978-0-89950-887-0 (lib. bdg. : 50# alk. paper) § 
  I. Marshall, Frank James, 1877-1944. 
  2. Chess players- United 
  States- Biography. 
  I. Title. 
  GVl439.M35S65 
  1994 
  794.1 '§9 - dc20 
  92-56699 
  ©1994 Andy Soltis. All rights reserved 
  Manufactured in the United States of America 
  McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 
  Box 611, Jefferson, North Carolina 28640 
  CIP 
  
  CONTENTS 
  Preface 
  One: When Chess Was Young 
  Two: Paris 1900 
  Three: Sophomore Marshall 
  Four: Cambridge Springs 
  Five: Consi