The Brussels Chess Club's Grandmasters Tournament was one of three international, multiple round-robin tournaments held in a casino in Ostend, Belgium featuring the best players of the day. In the fourteenth round, Frank James Marshall and Amos Burn played the Indian Defense.
Frank James Marshall favored aggressive play and confounding complications, prompting his nickname "The Great Swindler;" he won the U.S. Chess Championship twice before relinquishing the title to allow a change from a match to a tournament format. A student of Steinitz, and the chess editor of The Field, Amos Burn's staunch defensive play frustrated even the best attackers of his time.
