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| Mar-23-05 | | LIFE Master AJ: According to a former chess student, whose Dad teaches economics at a major college, 100 pounds then would have the buying power of nearly $100,000.00. (Back in 1858, you could buy a pair of shoes for two-pence.) Another way of looking at it is that if you invested 100 pounds into a bank in 1858, today it would be worth several million dollars. So 100 pounds was more than the average person could save in a lifetime. |
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Mar-23-05
 | | Sneaky: Back then, "one pound sterling" meant "one pound of sterling silver", so if you could imagine a sack of silver coins of all different sizes and weights, if that bag weighed 100 pounds, that's what you're looking at. |
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| Mar-23-05 | | LIFE Master AJ: <sneaky>
I believe you are correct, but can you offer a reference or a link to substantiate what you just said? (I looked in a encyclopedia, and could neither prove nor disprove what you just said.) |
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| Mar-23-05 | | Steppenwolf: 47 Kh4 is an obvious draw for white. Black cant get in and moving on the other wing will let Morphy pick up the central pawns. Therefore drawn. |
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| Mar-23-05 | | LIFE Master AJ: Instead of 48.Kf2?, K to g4 and h4, (for all infinity); was an easy draw.
See the annotations of this game in any book or the CD-ROM from ChessBase. |
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| Jan-10-06 | | morpstau: lifemaster you seem to be right and i think morphy must have been day dreaming about some hot broads back then. He obviously forgot that pawns can move likewise. (any comments) |
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| Apr-06-06 | | LIFE Master AJ: <morpstau>
Morphy was one of the most accurate players of all time. Having said this, he also played chess when the game was just becoming modern, Morphy's principles - as illustrated by his play - REVOLUTIONIZED chess as we know it. Having said all this, it looks like Morphy just lost his line of concentration ... I don't think he was as focused when the ending was being played. (Sloppy technique?) |
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Apr-11-06
 | | jakaiden: According to Basic Chess Endings(Fine) White must play 30. Kh3! to save the tempo, and after 30...g5 31. fxg6+ Kxg6 32. Kh4, etc. white wins. |
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| Apr-19-06 | | LIFE Master AJ: <jakaiden>
47.Kf3? is wrong, 47.Kh4 is an easy draw ... and I don't need a computer for this. Further, there are probably a dozen improvements to White's play in this endgame. 51.Kg1?? was completely the wrong idea, Black won by seizing the DISTANT OPPOSITION with 51...Kg5. |
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| Apr-19-06 | | CapablancaFan: <LIFE Master AJ>< 47.Kf3? is wrong, 47.Kh4 is an easy draw> Correct. Don't know what Morphy was thinking. |
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| Apr-20-06 | | LIFE Master AJ: I have found dozens of minor miscues in this game. 10.0-0!? might be inaccurate ... Black could have played ...Ng4 and gained the Bishop pair. I could go on, but I trust you get the point.
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| Mar-06-07 | | Judah: I must be making some mistake, but wouldn't 35 Kh7 be the natural move to play? |
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| Apr-02-07 | | beatgiant: <Judah>
On 35. Kh7 Kf7, Black can shuffle his king between f7 and f8, and the result is an immediate draw. In this ending, Morphy was trying a little too hard for a win. |
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| Apr-05-07 | | Judah: Ah, thanks. |
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| Aug-10-07 | | frank124c: When I was being taught to play by "Chessmaster" Richie--who by the way is the star of a YouTube video--I was told that one should play for a draw. This game proves that he was right, at least in some instances, because here we see Morphy, the Master who is worshipped above all other chess masters, play for a win when the position was drawn and thus he lost. He aspired to the stars but in this instance he crashed and burned. Alas such is chess a cruel, cruel game. |
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| May-21-09 | | NewLine: Puns are overrated. <Yawn> |
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| May-21-09 | | PolishPentium: "Newline": Au contraire.^^ Puns are punderful. As a friend used to say: "No punishment if 'no pun ish meant'"...Heheh. Back to chess. To be honest, PP was / is shocked that Morphy lost this. As LifeMaster AJ implies at various points above, there were several surprising inaccuracies in his play throughout the game. Highly atypical, it seems... |
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May-21-09
 | | Marmot PFL: hard to believe this was a match game. Morphy usually played better blindfold games than this. |
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| May-21-09 | | randomsac: Great endgame maneuvering with a very bad pun. |
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| May-21-09 | | tatarch: <jakaiden: According to Basic Chess Endings(Fine) White must play 30. Kh3! to save the tempo, and after 30...g5 31. fxg6+ Kxg6 32. Kh4, etc. white wins.> Thanks for pointing that out, very instructional. |
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May-21-09
 | | playground player: Beating Morphy with the Philidor--way to go, JJ!
I've been using the Philidor more and more, lately--even though one of the first things I was ever taught in chess was, "Don't play the Philidor, it's weak, it cramps Black's game," etc. I've never had much trouble beating the Philidor, but now I find it's winning a disproportionate number of games for me as Black. It's well worth while to study Morphy's games as Black with the Philidor. Far from cramping his style, he used it as a fearsome weapon which provided him with opportunities to seize the initiative early in the game. |
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May-21-09
 | | kevin86: For the winner here,it was slamming the dunk on LeBron or MJ (in his prime).Loewenthal upsets Morphy!! An elongated pawn game-with the last nonpawn disappearing on move 26. In fact at that time,there were fourteen pawns and two kings. |
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| May-21-09 | | lisbon67: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va_N... |
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| May-21-09 | | drpoundsign: Morph should taken the rook on the back rank and made check in the process no?? |
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| May-21-09 | | shalgo: <drpoundsign> <Morph should taken the rook on the back rank and made check in the process no??> I assume you mean that he should have played 23. xd8+. But Black would have played 23... xd8 24. xc5 d1+ 25. f2 xc2+ followed by capturing the bishop on c5. |
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