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| Aug-21-08 | | megatacos: Thats beautiful, pawn move mates are always really cool. Also, white had such good development that black couldnt play 5...QxE4, or else 6.KF2 threatening 7.RE1 and making an artificial castle. |
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| Oct-06-08 | | Whitehat1963: Hilarious finish. |
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| Dec-16-08 | | number 23 NBer: I was really hoping, when I clicked on this one, to win clue #31. Ah well. |
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Dec-16-08
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| Dec-24-08 | | WhiteRook48: What about the player named A King? |
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| Jan-06-09 | | WhiteRook48: if the posts that Morphy took of Queen's Rook and Queen's Knight are true, then Morphy took off his opponent (A Knight) at the start. |
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| Feb-01-09 | | WhiteRook48: nice exploitation of the pin too |
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| Jun-12-09 | | WhiteRook48: the Pin is mightier than the sword |
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| Oct-10-09 | | tentsewang: Morphy takes risks which are immaculate and gets his reward very soon! Amazing! |
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| Dec-28-09 | | zanshin: Assuming this was an odds game without White's QR and QN, then Morphy's play was pretty sound or justifiable. Black's mistakes seem to have been <41...Nxe5?> allowing the King to be trapped in the center (better was 14...Kf8) and <16...Ne7??> allowing mate (better 16...Qe7 giving up the Queen). |
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| Apr-21-11 | | Phony Benoni: A Knight is probably an ancestor of Mr. P.R.O.P. (Those of you from The Age of Descriptive Notation will understand!) |
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| May-23-11 | | Llawdogg: Wow! This checkmate with a pawn on d5 is very similar to the game Busnardo vs NN, 1590. Oh, the good old days! |
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| Jul-09-12 | | vinidivici: is this chess variant....? no rook and knight....
wow...A. Knight must be a very bad player. With this kind of odds, i am myself would beat any GM today. |
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| Aug-02-12 | | LoveThatJoker: Guess-the-Move Final Score:
Morphy vs A Knight, 1856.
YOU ARE PLAYING THE ROLE OF MORPHY.
Your score: 29 (par = 15)
LTJ |
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| Sep-09-13 | | SBC: While "A Knight" is rather poetical, Morphy's opponent was the more prosaic Theodor Knight. |
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| Nov-01-13 | | davide2013: Something strange happened. I was playing this game in the Guess The Move feature, and the Ra1 and Nb1 WERE NOT missing. Now, the problem is that I did play 12.Pb3, but I was reluctant to play some moves later, because I was considering the Ra1 in danger or the use of the Nb1. But they are not in this same game. So maybe there is a software error in Guess the Move?? |
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| Jan-12-15 | | gmelfranco: logico morphy se arriesga como un guerrero o un aquiles luchar todo por el todo vencer o morir!!!!!!!!!! a el no le importaba las tablas jejeje |
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| Nov-06-15 | | MindCtrol9: Giving Rook and Knight and winning in 17 moves.The only one,Morphy!!!!! |
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| Dec-11-16 | | Kaspablanca: "A Knight Can't Mate" is one of the best pun i´ve seen in chessgames.com:) |
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| Dec-29-16 | | john.owen: Until 12...Nd7 black is in the game. 12...Be6 12 Ba3+ Kd8 is about even. |
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| Jan-07-18 | | KSchlecher: Always wonder how could masters like Morphy sacrifice their materials so confidently and then turned out mate. It's like Morphy had had the mating blueprints, and his opponent just stepped right into his scheme... He exploited the value of each piece so incredibly well. |
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| Jan-08-18 | | Petrosianic: In this case because he was playing a much weaker player. It didn't just "turn out" mate in the sense that White sacked his Bishop with 7. Bxf7+ for a forced mate in 10. No, White isn't winning until late in the game. But you can see that after 7. Bxf7+, White is at least forcing the pace, making moves that Black has to respond to. As long as White is forcing the pace, he won't lose. So, as long as White is forcing the pace, he can set traps for Black, hoping that Black will fall into them. The weaker Black is, the more likely he'll fall into them (and with a R+N odds player, the odds are pretty good. White doesn't really start to get the upper hand until 14...Nxe5, although Black missed several chances to make things easier for himself before that. With 14...Kf8 and 15...Kg7, Black is still way ahead. In fact, White isn't really even clearly won until the very last move, when Black overlooks Mate in 1. If 16...Qe7 17. Bxe7 Nxe7 18. Qxh8 N5g6, White is better, but Black probably isn't lost. Granted, "Better" against such a weak player almost certainly means a win for White. But the King Hunt is over. |
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| Jan-08-18 | | Petrosianic: In fact, had it gotten this far, this might have been a really interesting position. 16...Qe7 17. Bxe7 Nxe7 18. Qxh8 Nfg6 19. Qxh7 Bf8, and Black has FOUR minors for the Queen. That might have made a really interesting game between two top players. With Morphy vs. Amateur, white would surely have won with a pawn roller through the center. But Black would have lasted until the endgame.
click for larger viewThe last time Black is clearly winning is on Move 14. 14...Kf8, and what does White do next? The attack has pretty much stalled. (In a lot of these King's Gambit games where Black weathers the attack, his King ends up parked on g7. 
click for larger viewIt's also interesting to note Black's choice of opening. Why go in for a sharp line designed to hold the gambit pawn when you're already up a Rook and a Minor? In those days, nobody seemed to know anything except 3...g5 against the King's Gambit. |
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| Jun-24-18 | | DrGridlock: Interesting "Guess the Move" game.
I got 23 against a par of 16, for my first "outstanding" game. However, at "Guess the Move" the game is not played at rook and knight "odds." With my queens rook and knight intact, I wanted to play 16 dxe5 with a decisive material advantage against black. Morphy's more "desperado" Qe8 is understandable with his considerable material deficit. |
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| Dec-09-22 | | ronski: 5......-Qxe4+ !! (-9.52) better for black. |
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sac: 7.Bxf7+