| Dec-21-02 |
| mdorothy: So, who is this guy exactly? He got lots of good odds, is he just Morphy's whipping boy? |
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| Dec-22-02 |
| GregorMendel: He wasn't that bad at chess...after all, he did beat the great NN once. |
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Dec-22-02
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| refutor: he was morphy's childhood friend |
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Dec-22-02
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| Sneaky: Forget NN, he beat Morphy a dozen times! http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Of course in every one of these odds games Morphy started down a rook, knight, queen, etc. But still! Could YOU beat Morphy if he was down a knight? |
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| Dec-22-02 |
| ughaibu: Maurian beat Morphy but NN beat almost everybody and was world champion for 4 years. |
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| Dec-22-02 |
| GregorMendel: NN is the man. He is immortal. |
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Dec-17-03
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| Eggman: <Could YOU beat Morphy if he was down a knight?> Yes. |
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Dec-17-03
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| technical draw: Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. |
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| Oct-27-04 |
| SBC: It's known that Maurian played, on even terms, casual games against Mackenzie, Steinitz, Zuckertort and Tchigorin. The only games here are those odds games vs Morphy and 2 games vs Steinitz. Would anyone happen to know if the game scores vs Mackenzie, Zuckertort or Tchigorin were ever published? |
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| Oct-08-05 |
| ConfusedPatzer: Whoa! Morphy still gave Maurian knight's odds after the guy had already played chess for over 10 years! Jebus, when you look at this guys Morphy had to play with you kind of start to understand why he got bored of chess. |
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Oct-08-05
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| keypusher: <ConfusedPatzer> Eventually Maurian got too strong for the odds. He won most of their later games. As <SBC> points out, Maurian was a fine player. You shouldn't be too surprised that Morhpy could give knight odds to Maurian for so long. I have read that Tigran Petrosian gave knight odds to an IM. I'll bet Gary Kasparov could give me knight odds --or a player much stronger than me knight odds -- and beat us until the end of time. |
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| May-21-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Charles Maurian MAURIAN, Charles
http://www.bidmonfa.com/maurian_cha...
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| May-25-06 |
| BaranDuin: <keypusher: <ConfusedPatzer> Eventually Maurian got too strong for the odds. He won most of their later games. As <SBC> points out, Maurian was a fine player. You shouldn't be too surprised that Morhpy could give knight odds to Maurian for so long. I have read that Tigran Petrosian gave knight odds to an IM. I'll bet Gary Kasparov could give me knight odds --or a player much stronger than me knight odds -- and beat us until the end of time.> I wonder what the effect of time odds would be. |
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| Feb-12-07 |
| wolfmaster: Forget beating NN! Maurian beat Steinitz on level terms the year he won the world championship! |
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| Jun-05-07 |
| IMDONE4: <<ConfusedPatzer> Eventually Maurian got too strong for the odds. He won most of their later games. As <SBC> points out, Maurian was a fine player.
You shouldn't be too surprised that Morhpy could give knight odds to Maurian for so long. I have read that Tigran Petrosian gave knight odds to an IM. I'll bet Gary Kasparov could give me knight odds --or a player much stronger than me knight odds -- and beat us until the end of time.> i doubt petrosian or kasparov could beat an IM down a piece in classical chess, but in blitz certainly. there were also several stories concerning how fischer was able to give knight odds to some of the best grandmasters of his time, and still win most games |
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May-21-08
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| brankat: In the context of Chess History P.Morphy and C.Maurian should be viewed as Siamese twins. |
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