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Frank James Marshall (August 10, 1877 --
November 9, 1944), was the U.S. Chess
Champion from 1909-1936, and was one of the
world's strongest chess players in the early
part of the 20th century.
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Stepan (Stefan) Levitsky (Levitski, Lewitzki)
(25 April 1876, Serpukhov -- 21 March 1924,
Glubokaya) was a Russian chess master.
In 1899 he took 3rd in Moscow (All Russian
Masters' Tournament, 1st RUS-ch, Mikhail
Chigorin won). In 1903 he took 8th in Kiev
(3rd RUS-ch, Chigorin won). In 1905/06 he
tied for 8-11th in Sankt Petersburg (4th
RUS-ch, Gersz Salwe won). In 1907 he took
2nd, behind Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, in St
Petersburg. He lost a match to Simon Alapin
(0 : 5) at St Petersburg 1907.
Stepan Levitsky won at Sankt Petersburg 1911
(All-Russian Amateur Tournament). In
July--August 1912, he tied for 13-14th in
Breslau (18th DBS--Congress, Rubinstein and
Oldrich Duras won). In August--September
1912, he took 3rd in Vilna (8th RUS-ch, Akiba
Rubinstein won). In 1913 he lost a match to
Alexander Alekhine (3 : 7) in Sankt
Petersburg. In 1913/14, he took 13th in St
Petersburg (9th RUS-ch, Alekhine and Aron
Nimzowitsch won).
He introduced the Queen's Bishop Attack,
known as the Levitsky Attack (1.d4 d5 2.Bg5)
in the Queen's Pawn Game (D 00).
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