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Aug-14-06
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| Honza Cervenka: <Black should play 14...Ke7 with considerable chances to keep his position. For example 15.Qh5 Nxc2+ 16.Ke2 gxf6 17.Qf7+ Kd6 18.Nxa8 Nxa1 19.Rxa1 Qe7 20.Qxe7+ Kxe7 21.fxe3 (or 21.Kxe3 Bh6+ 22.Kf3 Bd7 23.Bxb7 Rb8 24.Bd5 Rc8! and white has to repeat position with 25.Bb7 Rb8 26.Bd5 Rc8 etc. because black threatens to play - for example after 25.Rd1? - 25...Bc6 and white knight has no escape) with minimal material advantage of white which is compensated by black's two bishops and white's bad pawn's structure plus bad knight imprisoned in the corner of chessboard.> 19.Rc1 can be better but still I am not convinced that white has a win in hands here. For example, 19...Qe7 20.Rxc8 Qxf7 21.Bxf7 Bg7 22.Bg8 (or 22.Rxh8 Bxh8 23.fxe3 Nc2 24.a3 Kd7 25.Kd2 Nxa3 26.bxa3 Kc8 winning the Knight looks quite drawish with Bishops of opposite colours.) 22...exf2 23.Nc7 Kd7 24.Be6+ Ke7 25.Rxh8 Bxh8 26.Bf5 h6 27.Nd5+ Kf7 28.Ne3 Bg7 and white has nothing better than 29.Kxf2 (The attempt to go for the Knight in the corner via 29.Kd1 fails for 29...h5 with eventual 30...Bh6) which leads after 29...Bf8 30.Ke2 Bc5 31.Bc8 b6 32.Nf5 Nc2 (forced) 33.Nxh6+ Kg6 34.Ng4 which is difficult but not necessarily lost for black. |
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| Sep-28-06 |
| Mendrys: I wonder how many 2100 players are able to play 9 people (any 9 people including 1600 club players and up)blindfolded? The things (intuition, board sight, the ability to calculate) that made Morphy great are things that cannot be easily taught. So, if Morphy were to step into a time machine and come out inside the present day Marshall Chess Club I have no doubt that he would be considered quite strong. |
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Oct-24-06
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| SatelliteDan: This is the opening line according to the database if Morphy had white and Tal had black.1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nb5 d6 6. Bf4 e5 7. Be3 |
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| Apr-21-07 |
| wolfmaster: Could anyone believe that these two players were the best in the world the way Anderssen played? |
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| Jul-12-07 |
| sanyas: 7...f5, the only real mistake, was an outrageous idea by Anderssen which backfired spectacularly. |
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Nov-14-07
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| nimh: Rybka 2.4 mp, AMD X2 2.01GHz, 10 min per move, threshold 0.33. Morphy 2 mistakes:
11.Qf3+ 0.00 (11.Nxa8 0.55)
17.Ke2 2.75 (17.Kd2 4.20)
Anderssen 2 mistakes:
14...Kg6 3.14 (14...Ke7 0.00)
16...Nxc2+ 4.20 (16...g6 3.10) |
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| Nov-14-07 |
| RookFile: <SBC: According to Morphy himself (indirectly - http://batgirl.atspace.com/Morphy_o... ), it was his ability to foresee the outcome and then create the situation from which that outcome would occur. > Right, in other words, he combined strategic vision with strong tactical skills. |
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| Nov-14-07 |
| clma55: Put Morphy, Capablanca, Alekhine, Lasker in a time machine, move them to late 2005 and allow them 2 years training in openings & modern theory. Not sure if our 2007 active GM's will be comfortable playing against them. |
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Feb-18-08
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| waustad: If only the game against General Winfield Scott had survived. Who wouldn't love to see "old fuss & feathers" get stomped by a kid. |
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| Jan-18-09 |
| WhiteRook48: what's the threat behind 17. Ke2? |
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| Jan-22-09 |
| geigermuller: <WhiteRook48: what's the threat behind 17. Ke2?>
The threat is:
17. ...; Nxa1; 18. Rf1+; Ke7 19. Qxe5+; Be6 20. Qxe6# |
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Aug-04-09
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| birthtimes: After 14...Ke7 Morphy still retains an edge by 15. Qh5 Nxc2+ 16. Kd1 gxf6 17. Qf7+ Kd6 18. Rc1 e2+ 19. Kxe2 Nd4+ 20. Kd3 Bd7 21. Nxa8 Be7 22. Nc7 Rf8 23. Qxh7 Bc6 24. Bxc6 bxc6 25. Na6 as White has 2 pawns for a piece (one of them a passed h-pawn) and Black has a bad bishop and bad pawn structure. |
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| Aug-25-09 |
| AnalyzeThis: This is an annihilation of a very strong player. |
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Aug-25-09
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| RandomVisitor: black should have tried 7...Be6, 7...Nf6, or 7...a6. |
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| Aug-25-09 |
| LoveThatJoker: I noticed that other Kibitzers here noted that 14...Ke7! here was way the better move for Black than the one played, so what I am going to say is not necessarily something new but indeed of interest. In "Morphy Chess Masterpieces," Fred Reinfeld and Andrew Soltis say that this game would have been a groundbreaking defensive game if Black had chosen 14...Ke7!. The only move they criticized prior to 14...Kg6? was 7...f5??. They prefered 7...a6! (exclamation theirs.) Otherwise they gave both 12...Nd4! and 13...d5! exclamation marks. LTJ |
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Aug-25-09
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| RandomVisitor: After 7.Be3:
1: Paul Morphy - Adolf Anderssen, Paris m 1858
click for larger viewAnalysis by Rybka 3 : <21-ply> 1. = (0.00): 7...Nf6 8.N5c3 Be6 9.Be2 d5 10.exd5 Nxd5 11.Nxd5 Qxd5 12.Qxd5 Bxd5 13.0-0 Be6 14.Nc3 0-0-0 15.Rad1 Bb4 16.Na4 Be7 17.Bd3 h5 18.b3 b6 19.c3 2. = (0.08): 7...Be7 8.N1c3 Nf6 9.Nd5 Nxd5 10.exd5 Nb8 11.c4 a6 12.Nc3 Bg5 13.Qd2 Bxe3 14.fxe3 0-0 15.Bd3 f5 16.0-0 e4 17.Be2 Nd7 18.b4 3. = (0.14): 7...a6 8.N5c3 Nf6 9.Nd2 Ng4 10.Nd5 Nxe3 11.Nxe3 Be7 12.Bc4 0-0 13.0-0 Nd4 14.Bd5 g6 15.Ndc4 Rb8 16.c3 Ne6 17.a4 Qc7 18.Qc2 Bd7 |
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Aug-25-09
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| kevin86: Anderssen,himself the master of some many brilliant games,has the tables turned on him by the greatest of his time. |
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Aug-25-09
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| Chessmensch: I often wonder whether in those days players (like Anderssen in this case) used games to "try something out" even if it resulted in a loss or rout. I call this "research in chess." Nowadays, they do this with their seconds in private, but what was the practice back then? |
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| Aug-25-09 |
| Edeltalent: <Capablanca [...] 2 years training in openings & modern theory> Funny thought! Not sure he'd like it, that wasn't exactly his style ;-) |
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Aug-25-09
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| RandomVisitor: After 7.Be3:
1: Paul Morphy - Adolf Anderssen, Paris m 1858
click for larger viewAnalysis by Rybka 3 : <22-ply> <1. = (-0.03): 7...Nf6> 8.N5c3 Be6 9.Be2 d5 10.exd5 Nxd5 11.Nxd5 Qxd5 12.Qxd5 Bxd5 13.0-0 Be6 14.Nc3 0-0-0 15.Rad1 Bb4 16.Na4 Be7 17.Bd3 h5 18.b3 g6 19.Nc5 Bf5 20.c3 2. = (0.14): 7...a6 8.N5c3 Nf6 9.Nd2 Ng4 10.Nd5 Nxe3 11.Nxe3 Be7 12.Bc4 0-0 13.0-0 Nd4 14.Bd5 g6 15.Ndc4 Rb8 16.c3 Ne6 3. = (0.15): 7...Be7 8.N1c3 Nf6 9.Nd5 Nxd5 10.exd5 Nb8 11.a4 Nd7 12.Qd2 a6 13.Na3 0-0 14.Nc4 f5 15.g3 |
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| Aug-25-09 |
| psmith: <Honza Cervenka>: In your line after 14...Ke7 15.Qh5 Nxc2+ 16.Ke2 gxf6 17.Qf7+ Kd6 18.Nxa8 Nxa1 19.19.Rc1 Qe7 20.Rxc8 Qxf7 21.Bxf7 Bg7 Old Fritz (5.32) thinks that 22. Be8 is better. |
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| Aug-25-09 |
| WhiteRook48: Morphy finds a way to destroy the Sicilian |
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Aug-26-09
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| RandomVisitor: After 14...Ke7 15.Qh5 gxf6 how does white win?
1: Paul Morphy - Adolf Anderssen, Paris m 1858
click for larger viewAnalysis by Rybka 3 :
<[+0.00] d=15 16.Nxa8> Nxc2+ 17.Ke2 Nd4+ 18.Kd3 Be6 19.Rac1 Bxd5 20.Rc7+ Kd6 21.exd5 exf2 22.Qf7 Be7 23.Rxb7 Rf8 24.Qxh7 Rh8 25.Qg7 Rg8 26.Qf7 Rf8 |
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| Aug-27-09 |
| psmith: <RandomVisitor> I think perhaps after 14...Ke7 15. Qh5 gxf6 16. Qf7+ Kd6 17. fxe3 White has a good attack. What does Rybka say about that? |
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| Oct-12-09 |
| tentsewang: Morphy's key to success was that he always looked forward to his adversary's king lockage in which he encountered great strategies and create a zugzwang position. The game could had went like this-- 17. Ke2 Nxa1 18. Rf1+ Ke7 19. Qxe5+ Be6 20. Qxe6# 1-0 |
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