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| Jan-31-09 |
| WhiteRook48: 17...Qxf3!! is just great.
if 20. Qd3, then 20...Bxf1 21 Qxf1 and white seems to have a good game. I might be missing something |
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| Feb-08-09 |
| Pianoplayer: Morphy, when it comes to chess, he was pure genius. He SHOULD be the 1st world chess champion with that incredible 84.6% winning percentage. No offense to Steinitz. |
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| Feb-23-09 |
| MrMelad: <Morphy took twelve minutes over his next move, probably to assure himself that the combination was sound and that he had a forced win in every variation. -- Chernev> He says 12 minutes like it's a long time – who didn't see Kamsky take an hour to think of a single unimportant move which lost... Morphy played blitz with everyone and he was so fast, he retired aged 21, already a century ahead his time. |
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| Mar-18-09 |
| Brainwashed: >20.Qd3 f5 21.Qc4+ Kf8 22.Qf4
It looks like White's Queen finally finds a way to sacrifice for the rook and Black should look for another line to carry on with the attack. |
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Mar-18-09
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| Calli: 20.Qd3 f5 21.Qc4+ Kf8 22.Qf4 Bxf2!! shatters White's illusions. |
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| Mar-19-09 |
| sneaky pete: My descriptive 1957 Dover edition of Sergeant's book has "If 20 Q-Q3 P-KB4 (preventing QxR and threatening mate in 2) 21 Q-B4ch K-Bsq and White's last bolt is shot." You can't blame Sergeant if some people interpret 21 ... K-Bsq as 21... Kh8. |
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Mar-20-09
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| Calli: <sneaky pete> Must be the third time someone has quoted Sergeant incorrectly and I have believed them. I count on you to expose their inaccuracies! Chernev's note about Morphy thinking 12 minutes on 17...Qxf3 comes from Fiske's tournament book. His note reads: "Time, four hours. A record of the time consumed was only kept through a portion of the game. The first player's longest move was his sixteenth, thirty-eight minutes. None of the second player's moves exceeded five minutes, except his seventeenth, on which he considered twelve minutes." If the time was "only kept through a portion of the game", how did they know all those details? |
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| Apr-05-09 |
| Blackqueen: on 6.Nxe5 why doesn't black recapure?
Because of the pawn centre? or the extra tempo? |
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Apr-05-09
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| nimh: <on 6.Nxe5 why doesn't black recapure?
Because of the pawn centre? or the extra tempo?> Black was probably afraid of getting forked by the d-pawn 
click for larger view |
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| Jul-15-09 |
| tentsewang: An absolute genius play by Mr: Morphy, sacrificing queen inorder to gain the victory. Just a magnificent game! unforgettable. |
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Jul-28-09
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| LIFE Master AJ: The last time I kibitzed on this page was now ... two years ago! (Wow, time really goes by quickly.) The link that I gave (earlier) is also invalid, that website was closed. If you would like to see this game annotated, here is my try at it:
http://www.lifemasteraj.com/old_af-.... |
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Jul-30-09
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| Kinghunt: I played the demo of Guess the Move and tried 24...Bg4, which I know to be stronger than the text. Yet Guess the Move claimed it was inferior and gave 0 points. =( |
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Jul-30-09
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| Honza Cervenka: <Surely Count what's his face in the famous "opera house game" did not develop his pieces very quickly> Well, in fact quite paradoxically two developing moves of black (3...Bg4 and 6...Nf6) were clearly the main culprits of black's disaster in that game. |
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Aug-06-09
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| LIFE Master AJ: <Honza C> True! |
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| Aug-19-09 |
| gamego: Why not 22...Qxf1 23.Qxf1 ...Re1 24. Qxe1 ...RxR. Does that work? |
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| Aug-19-09 |
| gamego: Correction: these moves should start at the 17th move of black rather than at the 22nd. |
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| Aug-20-09 |
| gamego: re correction: Why not 17....Qxf1 18.Qxf1...Re1 19.QxR...RxQ. Does this work for mate? |
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| Sep-16-09 |
| hippatxu: in ur line white simply don´t want to make 19.QxR. |
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| Oct-14-09 |
| Jeanjargh: Hey I got 61, 61 I must study morphy's style more |
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| Oct-27-09 |
| WarriorSpirit: Isn't 28. H3 much better.
This is my analysis of it. It also stops that sure mate on the 2nd rank
28. ... Rxh3+ 29. Kg2 Rg3+ 30. Kh2 Rd3 31. Kh1 f5 32. Kg2 Bd4+ 6. Kh1 |
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Oct-28-09
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| Calli: <WarriorSpirit:> 28.H3 Rxh3+ 29. Kg2 Rg3+ 30. Kh2 Be1+ 31.Kh1 Re4 and mate next |
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| Oct-28-09 |
| WarriorSpirit: yea he would survive longer tho :) |
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| Nov-04-09 |
| GaeBulg: 17...Qxf3!!
Took Rybka a good 30 seconds to find, at depth 19. That's deeper and longer than any other !! move I've ever tried to use Rybka to find. |
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Nov-30-09
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| kingscrusher: I have video annotated this game (a new version from before) here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh8w... |
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May-23-10
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| sisyphus: IM Bill Hartston annotated this in his "Kings of Chess." After the famous queen sacrifice, 17...Qxf3, he writes <Morphy thought for twelve minutes before offering his Queen with this move – the longest time he spent on any single move in the whole New York tournament. Paulsen cogitated for much longer before capturing it. Some of the spectators were equally baffled. "Mr. Stanley, one of the bystanders, remarked of Mr. Morphy, on making this seemingly rash move, that he should be confined to a lunatic asylum."> Charles Henry Stanley was one of America's strongest players. He was champion of the U.S. before Morphy. |
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