The German Chess Federation (Deutscher Schachbund) was founded in 1877, and by 1890 its congress had become the default German chess championship. In the third round of the 1910 tournament Frank James Marshall and Siegbert Tarrasch played the Scotch Gambit.
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. Nicknamed Praeceptor Germaniae, meaning "the Teacher of Germany," Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch heavily influenced chess theory through his writings. Edward Lasker annotated the game in 1915.
