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Oct-20-15
 | | beatgiant: <Isolani>,<Boomie>
21...Re7 22. Re1 Be5 23. d4 and the bishop is lost. |
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| Oct-21-15 | | Isolani: Thanks Boomie and beatgiant. How in the world did I overlook Re1? Wow. |
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| Nov-16-15 | | talhal20: Many Kibitzers, I find, attribute Morphy's success to playing lesser chess players of his time. Adolf Anderssen was not an ordinary player. He was the leading player during Morphy's time. See what happened to him when he played Morphy. Grand masters play chess with superior logic. Morphy played chess with logic beyond logic. That is the difference between Paul Morphy and all the world chess champions, past and present. |
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| Feb-11-16 | | Aleksashka: Morphy's tactics seems to me is never give a little rest to his opponent |
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| Feb-18-16 | | saturn2: Did Morphy anticipate that in this position the queen counts more R+B+N together?
Engines would disagree but if one admires Morphy enough he would say Morphys judgment was better than engines and he anticipated that the black pieces were not well coordinated and black would loose one of them by a queen fork (like 19 Qh5 forking B and N or finally 23 Qa4 forking K and B)? |
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| Apr-17-17 | | mikealando: Morphy was simply the finest, ahead of all the other by some good distance |
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| May-16-17 | | User not found: Richard Taylor.. 
click for larger viewIt's creative, attacking, risk taking, exciting, experimental, genius! Whites not even guaranteed a win, the position looks better because of blacks undeveloped queen side but one little inaccuracy from black (who didn't see it coming!) and Morphy will destroy, which is exactly what happened.. 
click for larger viewBxf7+! ..kxB Nd5+ ..kd8 NxQ ..BxN Qg4 ..d6 Qf7l4 ..Rg8 Qxf7 ..Bxh4+ kd2 ..Re8 Na3 and then the "inaccuracy" is played.. 
click for larger viewThe innocent and not very blunder looking ..Na6? and 5 moves later it's a wrap! He's a genius. |
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| May-17-17 | | morfishine: Chessmetrics has Morphy 2700+ |
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Jul-08-17
 | | GrahamClayton: It is not very often that you see a White queen on h1 within twenty moves :-) |
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Jul-09-17
 | | keypusher: <UNF>. Pretty sure this was a book line. Morphy had played the black side earlier in 1858. H Baucher vs Morphy, 1858 |
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| Jul-10-17 | | heuristic: 19...Bf6??
19...Be7 20.Qxh1 Bg5+ 21.Kc3 Be6 22.b3 Rc8+ 23.Kb2 Bf6+20.Qxh1?
20.Re1 Rxe1 21.Kxe1 Ng3 22.Qf7 Bxb2 23.Nb5 Nxf1 24.Kxf1 Bd7 25.Qf8+ Be8 26.Nxd6 20...Bxb2??
20...Bg5+ 21.Kc3 Be6 22.Qxh7 Bf6+ 23.d4 Rc8+ 24.Bc4 Bxc4 25.Nxc4 d5 |
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Jul-10-17
| | keypusher: <keypusher: <UNF>. Pretty sure this was a book line. Morphy had played the black side earlier in 1858.> Sergeant's book of Morphy games quotes Lowenthal on the alternative 8....Qe7+ 9.Be2 Qb4+ 10.Qd2! <invented by Mr. Baucher and endorsed by our leading players>. See Anderssen vs M Lange, 1859 |
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| Apr-13-18 | | LearningH: WOW there was some extra SPICE in those moves. Compliments of New Orleans no doubt. |
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| Jun-21-18 | | ThirdPawn: Re Paul Morphy rating:
I really don't understand how anyone can compare Paul Morphy to current times. How are you gauging his rating? As if his very little blunders make him less superior current GMs who play without any blunders? Oh, please. People who step on Morphy by claiming he played against weaker opponents and would not par well with current players reminds me of Staunton's controversy with Morphy. This is ego related, whether one considers themselves to be better than Morphy, or considers their favorite top player of current to beat Morphy with ease. What Morphy did back then is almost equivalent to what the chess engines do to current GMs. He simply would not and could not be beat. This is a guy who played for the sport of it, didn't accept winnings but instead used it to entice other top players to come play against him(he was pretty much a multi-millionaire), didn't have teachers/coaches, etc. He won over 80% of his games against the best of his time because only they were available, but that doesn't mean he couldn't beat players of today. Even back then, there were top players who were afraid to play Morphy. Is anyone achieving this task currently? I agree with Fisher that if Morphy were to be brought back today, he would still be a formidable opponent he once was almost 200 years ago. What makes him dangerous is his ability to adapt, as we saw him starting a match first by losing against a new opponent and then going on to win the match in a significant manner. He understood the game like no other, in my opinion. |
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| Jun-21-18 | | ThirdPawn: AlphaZero's game play reminds me of Paul Morphy's more than anyone else. The pawn gambits, the sacrifices, the advancement of pieces and the exploits are all central themes of both players. And in closed positions, both of these players' game play is lackluster and dull. |
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| Jun-23-19 | | Pyrandus: "Lackluster and dull" - le style c'est l'homme. |
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| Jun-24-19 | | Pyrandus: I don't understand this word: "Lackluster". |
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| Jun-25-19 | | ReneDescartes: "lackluster" applies to something that is worse than ok but not yet fully bad -- and that does not achieve its mediocre effect in an interesting way. |
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| Aug-22-19 | | Patzer Natmas: Wow... |
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| Apr-27-20 | | talhal20: We are so much obsessed with elo rating that we bring Paul Morphy within that ambit and ascribe him elo rating between 1900 to 2800. One GM has said Morphy can be rated Carlsen +10. He is truly beyond elo rating. |
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| Nov-18-20 | | schnarre: ...Morphy makes masterful use of his Knight here--winning Black's Queen in almost no time. |
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| Feb-19-21 | | MarianoFreyre: Amazing gameeeee¡ |
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| Mar-17-21 | | Poisonpawns: This game flows so logically to me that I memorized it the first time i saw it. I wish i could do that i will. I had no control, i just remembered it. |
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| Aug-28-21 | | paulmorphy1969: In this game Morphy played the same first 15 move Henry Baucher he had used it against him two mont first end 16 move is change in much better move of Baucher |
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| Aug-28-21 | | RookFile: Interesting chess, full of imagination by both players. Fun to play over. |
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