Paul Morphy vs Denis Julien (1857)

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Paul Morphy vs Denis Julien
Odds game (Nb1) (1857) (unorthodox), New York, NY USA
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Jul-14-06		Whitehat1963: What a great and typical Morphy performance! There's also a wonderful puzzle here after 15...Rxb2. And I bet very few of you can see it all the way through. Maybe save for a Friday or Saturday.

Jul-14-06		RookFile: Well, you'll have to put me down as one of them. I think black is still better after 16. e5 dxe5.

Jul-20-08		sneaky pete: 11... g4 wins the other knight. This may have been no problem for Morphy, but after say 12.Bxf4 gxf3 13.Rxf3 Bg4 (14.Rfe3 0-0-0; 14.Rg3 Qh4; 14.Bxd6 Qe6) I don't see anything promising for white.

Oct-04-08		yavuz1: you posted very long time ago but i wondered, whats the puzzle please Whitehat1963 ? thanks

Mar-20-23		Brenin: 19 Rxe5+ Nxe5 20 Bb5+ Nd7 21 Bxd7+ Kf8 22 Qxd8+ wins the Q.

Mar-20-23		Mayankk: A Morphy game where he has already sacrificed two minors. Let's do some more - maybe our Rook. Ah that opens a new check via Bishop, so we try that as well. 19 Rxe5+ Nxe5 20 Bb5+ Nd7 21 Bxd7 and the King has to move leaving the Queen unguarded. Interesting that the game started with Knight odds. The combination itself started with 16 e5, tempting Black to grab a free Bishop on top of the Knight it had since the start. But with its King stuck in the centre and two pieces undeveloped, it was only a matter of time.

Mar-20-23		King.Arthur.Brazil: Quick: 9. Rxe5+ Nxe5 20. Bb5+ Nd7 21. Bxd7+ I love Mondays...

Mar-20-23		jrredfield: 19 Rxe5+ Nxe5 Bb5+ was obvious. After 16 e5, 16 ... dxe5 would have been much smarter than 16 ... Rxd2 which doomed Black right there and then. 16 ... dxe5 17 Rf2 Qf8 18 Bb5 Ne7 19 Qb7 Rxb5 and now Black has the upper hand.

Mar-20-23		Check It Out: 19. Rxe5+ Nxe5 20. Bb5+ Nd7 21. Bxd7+ Kf8 22. Qxd8+ Kg7 wins queen for rook and marauding passed pawns; game over.

Mar-20-23		Mayankk: Hi <jrredfield> After 16 e5 exd5, 17 dxe5 Bxe5 (17 ... Rxd2 18 e6 looks bad for Black) 18 Bb5 Rxd2 19 Qc8+ Qd8 20 Rxe5+ and White should win in my view.

Mar-20-23		jrredfield: Hi <Mayankk>. Thank you for your comment, but I'm a bit confused. Did you mean "After 16 e5 dxe5"? (As seen from White's point of view). If you did, I checked again and found what appears to be an even better line for Black: 16 ... dxe5 17 Bc1 Rb6 18 Qc7 Qd8 19 Qxd8+ Kxd8 20 a5 Rb7. I believe that Black's march of pawns at this point will give him a bit of an endgame advantage, and I think the Knights will be more effective than the Bishops (as Petrosian would have felt I think)

Mar-20-23		saturn2: White is a two knights down. He has to be carefull in sacroficing but R for Q+N yields still a positive balance. And positionally it is won as well.

Mar-20-23		stst: 19.RxB+ NxR 20.Bb5+ Nd7 21.BxN+ Kf8 22.QxQ etc

Mar-20-23		agb2002: White has a pawn for a knight. Black threatens Qxc8. The knight on d7 blocks the a4-e8 diagonal. Therefore, 19.Rxe5+ Nxe5 (19... Kf8 20.Qxd8+ wins) 20.Bb5+ Kf8 (20... Nd7 21.Bxd7+ Kf8 22.Qxd8+ Kg7 23.Nxd2 wins) 21.Qxd8+ Kg7 22.Nxd2 Nxf3+ 23.Nxf3 wins decisive material. The alternative 19.Qxd8+ Kxd8 20.Nxd2 Bxd6 only seizes an exchange but it is also winning.

Mar-20-23		agb2002: The puzzle position looked very odd to me (a white knight on b1 and a black rook on d2) but crazy positions are not uncommon. However, if the puzzle position does not correspond to the actual game then one may consider illegal moves like Nxd2.

Mar-20-23		mel gibson: What a way to swindle the Black Queen with a pin. LOL

Mar-20-23		Mayankk: Hi <jrredfield> My bad for the typo. I meant 16 e5 dxe5 17 dxe5 as a response from White instead of 17 Rf2 or 17 Bc1.

Mar-20-23		FSR: Cute.

Mar-20-23		TheaN: Ah! So this was a Nb1 odds game that somehow didn't go through on the frontpage. Else, 19.Qxd8+ Kxd8 20.Nxd2 +- wins quite easily. The key to winning more forcefully is <19.Rxe5+> winning Black's queen, given she's pinned and Black has no answer to the check from b5 after <19....Nxe5>, 19....Ne7 20.Rxe7+ Kf8 21.Qxd8+ +- and 19....Kf8 20.Qxd8+ +-. <20.Bb5+ +-> given Kf8 is best, as Nd7 21.Bxd7+ +-.

Mar-20-23		Dionysius1: <TheaN> Trouble for Morphy: if there had been a N on b1 from the start, then 10.Rae1 would have been illegal. Hehehe

Mar-20-23		chrisowen: I mat frisbee quick its poe jury its Rxe5+ arete v its over a cliff mufti arrived its set a gulch its quack Rxe5+ faith;

Mar-20-23		jrredfield: <Mayankk My bad for the typo. I meant 16 e5 dxe5 17 dxe5 as a response from White instead of 17 Rf2 or 17 Bc1.> If 16 e5 dxe5 17 dxe5, then 17 ... Rxd2 18 Bb5 Qe6 19 Qb7 Ke7 20 Bxd7 Rxd7 and Black's material advantage will hold up.

Mar-20-23		Teyss: There's two kinds of people in this world: those with a loaded gun and those who dig. Wrong quote. There's two kinds of people in this world: those who solve the puzzle from the homepage, and thought there was a Knight on b1, and those who solve from the kibitz page. I wonder if it's a bug whereby CG front page cannot handle odds games. Cannot remember another POTD based on such a game.

Mar-20-23		Damenlaeuferbauer: After long thinking, the immortal Paul Morphy finally found the nice exchange sacrifice 19.Rxe5+!,Nxe5 (19.-,Kf8 20.Qxd8 +-) 20.Bb5+,Nd7 (20.-,Kf8 21.Qxd8+ +-, 20.-,Nc6 21.Bxc6+,Kf8 22.Qxd8+ +-) 21.Bxd7+,Kf8 22.Qxd8+ +-. It is a tragical loss for the history of chess, that Paul Morphy and Wilhelm Steinitz never played a game against each other (like Bobby Fischer versus Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov)!

Mar-20-23		AlicesKnight: Found the Rxe5+ quickly; the N recapture (else the Q goes) allows Bb5+ and with or without the N return to d7 the black Q still goes.

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