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Paul Morphy vs Adolf Anderssen
"Keep Your Eye on the Paul" (game of the day Jul-13-07)
Casual Game 1858  ·  King's Gambit: Accepted. Kieseritsky Gambit Berlin Defense (C39)  ·  1-0


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Feb-05-07   psmith: <sneaky pete> While Anderssen won that game, I don't see what he has if Black plays sensibly. See my comments over there.
Feb-11-07   RuyLopezFire: Wasn't Anderssen the guy that conducted the 'evergreen' game
Mar-10-07
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  playground player: Morphy and Anderssen played this game just for fun? I dunno--this looks like the kind of game that would make the loser give up chess forever. The way Morphy just walked in on the European chess establishment and kicked everybody's butt reminds me of the way Miyamoto Musashi singlehandedly demolished the Yoshioka school of swordsmanship. Brutal, devastating--but at least Morphy's victims lived to tell about it.
May-14-07   Dick Brain: <Satellite Dan> Morphy probably wanted to keep c3 open for his King in case of ...Bg5+; this might be more instinct than careful calculation.
Jul-13-07   Atking: I'm not sure but I think Fischer has wrote in his 60 memorable games that white sacrifice is not correct. Something like 14...Re8 or 14...Rg8 keeping 3 pieces for a Queen.
Jul-13-07
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  kevin86: This was a fun era of chess! Sacs,quick moving attacks,and rapid finishes were the name of the game back then. Here are two of the better practicianers of the art in a classic one.
Jul-13-07
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  kevin86: Happy Jason Day everyone!!!
Jul-13-07
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  outplayer: I have played this line against Chessmaster9000 and the position gets higly unclear after the black queen leaves the stage. Chessmaster manages to draw it.
Jul-13-07   Yurys student: <philid0r> White has an active queen against an inactive rook and bishop, plus white had an attack going. <ruylopezfire> Yes, anderssen was the player who conducted the immortal game.Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852
Jul-13-07   Christopher93: Wow, that was intense! Did that game even have an opening? *sarcasm* They really started to exchange pieces early without much set up it seems.
Jul-14-07
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  Peligroso Patzer: <This was a fun era of chess! Sacs,quick moving attacks,and rapid finishes were the name of the game back then. Here are two of the better practicianers of the art in a classic one.>

These two players were really more than just two of the better practitioners of the art of attacking chess. Anderssen was probably the preeminent representative of the purely romantic school of chess, and Morphy holds a unique role as the key transitional figure between the romantic and modern schools of chess.

In addition, in the introductory section to his book “World Chess Championship: Kramnik vs. Lékó” (Hardinge Simpole Publishing 2004), Ray Keene argues that both of these players should be included in a line of world champions that he would start with Labourdonnais (1834-1840). Keene would recognize Anderssen as World Chess Champion from 1851-1858, and Morphy as champion from 1858-1860. The period from 1860-1866 (when Morphy was inactive but still generally regarded as the world’s strongest player) Keene classifies as an interregnum, but he considers Steinitz’s tenure as world champion to have commenced in 1866 (rather than 1886) based upon his victory over Anderssen in a match held in London in that year. Keene’s well-argued thesis makes for very interesting reading, and, regardless of whether one ultimately accepts his conclusions, the historical summary he presents leaves no doubt about the hugely significant positions held by Anderssen and Morphy in the history of chess.

Nov-13-07
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  nimh: Rybka 2.4 mp, AMD X2 2.01GHz, 10 min per move, threshold 0.33.

Morphy no mistakes!

Anderssen 2 mistakes:
18...Na6 0.38 (18...Ng3 -0.39)
20...Bxb2 3.04 (20...Bg5+ 0.43)

Jan-18-09   WhiteRook48: Yikes! Morphy's play is incredible!
Apr-26-09   paulmorphy41: I analysed an interesting line on 8..Qe7+ 9.K-f2 Nh1+ 10.Kg1 d5 11.Nc3 c6 12.B-g5 Bxg4 13Qxg4 Qe6 14.Re1 QxR 15.Qc8#
Aug-05-09   newzild: Man, what a slugfest. I'd never throw my bits around like that.
Aug-23-09   tentsewang: Morphy was too precise at making no error that he ate Anderssen's pieces here and there which lead to his opponent's defeat.
Sep-09-09   yorkambit30: morphy plays the game with such single minded determination it's unbelievable. it's like he's blowing up the entire board just to get a nice tactical situation that's pleasing to him. remarkable.
Sep-24-09   fhl: Sick game!
Sep-24-09
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  Boomie: The seemingly innocuous 9. Qe2+ has fangs here because of the Ng4. Notice that the ordinary looking 9...Be7 leads to mate. 10. Nf6+ Kf8 11. Bh6# Not every day you get to mate with a knight and bishop.
Jan-04-10   Garech: In "My Sixty Memorable Games" Bobby Fischer cites this game when analysing his famous loss playing the black side in a King's Gambit against Spassky at Mar Del Plata in 1960. After 13. ... Bxe7 his feeling was that black should win. Fritz agrees but interestingly also screams out for 8. ... Qe7+ with huge advantage for black, a move that Fischer doesn't mention although after, for example, 9.Be2...Nxh1 10.Bg5 ... Qb4+ 11.c3 ... Qxb2!? 12.Nf6+ ... Ke7 13.Ne4+ ... Ke6 14.Bg4+ Kd5 15. Qf3 ... it's starting to look more equal, and very wild!
Jun-05-10   charmitage: Was no the way he takes the queen in 13. not the coolest thing ever? It's as if Morphy set out in moves 1 to 13 to kill the queen and kill the queen only. I got to that and I couldn't continue on viewing for a while. It was so beautiful. I was shaken by it! Imagine how Anderssen was must have thought!!.
Jul-17-10   Julian713: This is the way chess was meant to be played! Even if I lose, I prefer playing this way because I feel like I learn a lot more.
Aug-08-10   Grantchamp: OMG!!!!!!!
Aug-09-10   Grantchamp: wow amazing
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