Recapturing hadn't been invented yet.
Indeed, Garry chess used that exploit to help him win his first queen's gambit game. Later on, Benjamin Recapture would invent recapturing, leading this line to become obselete.
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Benjamin recapture was born in the year -20, to a middle class family in London, England. As a young boy he showed remarkable talent in memorizing useless things, such as the periodic table and the formula for the area of trapezoids. As the new game chess, invented by garry chess and john chess, became more popular amongst the populace, Benjamin Recapture was enthralled by the beauty of the game. He got fat, grew a neckbeard, and began to theorize on possibly winning solutions and game breaking glitches. Soon he realized that when people took a piece, the enemy seldom recaptured, because it was assumed that your opponent knew what they were doing, and therefore retaking was considered futile.
However, Benjamin Recapture sought to change that, for he did not believe most people were smart, so he began the challenge to "retake every piece". It worked beautifully, and the charades of his enemies were often exposed by this brilliant new counterstrategy. Benjamin Recapture became a rising young prodigy within the chess community, labeled as "the light of london". And wherever he went, his signature strategy, now named "recapturing", would follow.
He began to travel the world and play in famous tournaments, even meeting garry chess and john chess over the board. But the thing is, the meta is constantly evolving, and others began to pick up on his tricks. Garry chess and john chess, the best players in the world, were no slouches, and had already understood the genius of recapturing, and easily defeated benjamin recapture. Soon, everyone was recapturing, and Benjamin would fade into obscurity as nothing more than a fallen genius. Yet traces of him remain, as to this day, we still call the act of retaking a piece to be "recapturing".
After his fall, Benjamin Recapture realized that he was not that good at chess without his gimmicks, and retired and decided to go to college with his prize winnings. He ended up graduating from Oxford University with a PhD, and would later be best friends with William Internet, inventor of the internet. But that's a story for another day.
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