Funny about the plus signs on the bishops.
Someone else speculated the same thing on 8 chan.
Steven W. , thank you for everything you are adding to this thread. Illuminating!
Awesome. E5 opening. Interesting that there is a pope\bishop in that game.
If no one has identified Assange’s chess photo, here it is:
Marshall Chess Club New York
Marshall Gambit was played by the US champion against Capablanca.
chesshistory.com
In the photo, our guy, Frank James Marshall, is playing white, and Jose Raul Capablanca [of Cuba] has black. They faced off in 1909, and played the first 5 games in New York. They then proceeded to other cities, with the final score being:
Capablanca - 15 wins
Marshall - 8 wins
1 draw
No idea which game is pictured; possibly the first NY game which opened with the Marshall Gambit.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=80449