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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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| May-21-09 | | wanabe2000: When reviewing the game I thought 18.Rfd1 was the best play. Upon lookong at former posts I saw that LIFE Master AJ pointed that out in 2005. This was a very instuctive endgame on the king "opposition" and "distant opposition". |
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| May-21-09 | | WhiteRook48: I can't believe it! |
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Sep-16-09
 | | nasmichael: Following up on 'distant' opposition. Glad to have these games here, accurate or not, to see what others have done. |
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| Jan-01-11 | | josejoasm: I had played 48.Ke2 to attack pawn c5 and win the game ;-) |
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| Jul-15-11 | | horseboat: Horribly botched endgame by Morphy. Perhaps this is why he's not a LIFE Master, no? |
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| Jul-15-11 | | DrMAL: <horseboat> Yes you are right, Morphy was definitely not a LIFE Master LOL. He was a mere GM who would have surely been the first WC likely retaining this title into the 20th century. |
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Jul-15-11
 | | TheFocus: So you think Morphy would have been champion from 1850s to 1900s? |
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