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| Jun-16-08 | | MrMelad: Well, <RookFile>, quitting while ahead is the best way to ensure you would be remembered, but Morphy certainly did not quit because he was afraid of anyone! I think his true brilliancy is shown in those real games (not odds) when he plays other then e4 e5, where you could see an actual modern day GM.
I don't think Magnus Carlsen would be ashamed of playing like Morphy, at any age, after all, Morphy quit chess just about a few years from Carlsen age, at 1859 when he was 21 (Carlsen is 17). That is at least my impression.
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| Jun-16-08 | | RookFile: Oh, I definitely don't feel that Morphy was afraid of anyone. But put it this way: after he had beaten everybody worth beating who had played him, what did he have left to prove? |
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| Jun-16-08 | | MrMelad: Exactly, as a fan it easy to accuse players, like Morphy or Fischer or Kasparov for retiring "early" but is it justified? In most sports, like Football and Basketball, careers are stretched over 10-20 years top, in chess some players play 50 and 60 years! It is obvious that no one can stay in the top of his game for that entire time, even if he is extremely talented. But it could be said that at some point, a player's strength reach a certain height, and in the case of Morphy it is argued that his peak was very great indeed. |
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| Jun-16-08 | | cracknik: after bishop takes f6 then what? |
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Jun-16-08
 | | keypusher: <But put it this way: after he had beaten everybody worth beating who had played him, what did he have left to prove?>
What does anyone ever have to prove? Anyway, chess fans can be grateful that Kasparov didn't decide he had "nothing left to prove" after he became world champion at age 22 in 1985. Same for Tal in 1960, Capablanca in 1921, Lasker in 1894, etc. <cracknik> 25....Bxf6 26. Bxf6 Qxf6 27. Qh7+ Kf8 28. g7+ Ke7 29. g8/Q+ |
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| Jun-16-08 | | PinnedPiece: <Keypusher
<cracknik> 25....Bxf6 26. Bxf6 Qxf6 27. Qh7+ Kf8 28. g7+ Ke7 29. g8/Q+> I don't think so...somebody with an engine will probably show that the pawn can't be queened unless 25...Bxf6
26 Qh7+ |
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| Jun-16-08 | | Vollmer: All Black needs here is to play 1...d5 and White's goose is cooked after an eventual OOO . Sheesh |
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Jun-16-08
| | keypusher: <Pinned Piece> Yup, you are right. In my line black just plays 28....Qxg7. |
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Jun-17-08
 | | Once: Life is full of "if only"s.
If only Morphy had played on. What an even richer treasury of games he would have left us! If only Staunton would have agreed to play him during his London visit. If only Alekhine would have allowed Capablanca a rematch. If only Fischer would have carried on playing into the era of Karpov and Kasparov. Anyone else got an "if only" to share? |
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| Jun-17-08 | | RookFile: <keypusher: What does anyone ever have to prove? Anyway, chess fans can be grateful that Kasparov didn't decide he had "nothing left to prove" after he became world champion at age 22 in 1985. Same for Tal in 1960, Capablanca in 1921, Lasker in 1894, et> Yes, this is true. As John Wooden said: "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." In Morphy's case though, it's too bad that people were afraid to take him up on his pawn and move challenge. |
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| Nov-30-08 | | WhiteRook48: When does Morphy lose? Not very often. |
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| Dec-16-08 | | MrMelad: <RookFile: In Morphy's case though, it's too bad that people were afraid to take him up on his pawn and move challenge.> Or not! Imagine Steinitz playing Morphy and loosing big time, as he would have probably [I saw a recent computer research which proved beyond doubt that Morphy would have crushed Steinitz, I can't remember the link, they used Crafty to asses all the positions in all of the champions games, 5 minutes each position, and concluded that Morphy's blunder rate (by their definition of a blunder rate - if in a given position there exist a move which scores higher by +0.75 than the chosen move, then the chosen move is called a blunder or something like that) was much lower then Steinitz, close to modern champions]. How would we perceive the legacy of world championships, and the legacy of Steinitz himself in such a case? Would Steinitz still have thought of himself as the best in the world and start the world championship? I am not so sure... We call Morphy's opponents weak, wouldn't we call Steinitz weak? I think everyone knew exactly what they were doing when they didn't play Morphy (including Staunton), they kept their face! :) |
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| Dec-31-08 | | WhiteRook48: Go for Morphy! and Morphy had no version of fritz. His version was Fritz 0 and always assumed white's best move was 1. h4. then Fritz 0 recommends 2. a4 and 3. d3, 4. e3, 5. f3, 6. Na3, and 7. Nh3. Then 8. Rb1. then it recommends rook shifting from a1 to b1 and back. So when he plugged the position into Fritz it said Rg1+ was the best move. |
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| Jan-01-09 | | WhiteRook48: f6!! what a Morphy move |
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| Jan-03-09 | | WhiteRook48: Maurian, it seems, can't even avoid CHECKMATE!! |
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| Jan-08-09 | | WhiteRook48: 25...Qf8 26. fxe7!! Qe8 27. Qh7# |
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| Jan-10-09 | | WhiteRook48: heavy odds. and it was all to Morphy's benefit. |
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| Jan-22-09 | | WhiteRook48: maybe Morphy didn't want to CRUSH his opponent with the best winning sequence and found another?! Some people just play passively, but I cannot imagine Morphy playing passively. |
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| May-28-09 | | DwayneMeller: You guys need to remember...a knight is still a knight... to put it into perspective do you all think capa or alekhine would lose if the other was missing a knight? Or no matter who'd you think would win between fischer and kasparov do you REALLY think the other guy would lose to a knight down bobby or garry? Or Kasparov who in 27 games never lost to shirov although shirov was often close to winning would lose to a knight down garry? Well morphy and maurian was like that...maurian is "shirov" but a knight is a knight...morphy was probably still a CHESS GOD but the mortal won due to the extra knight...obviously playing 20 years with morphy at odds had to make maurian strong enough to be able to beat him eventually at odds...but that didn't mean morphy "passed the torch " either because at regular chess morphy would have killed him which is the whole point of odds anyway...to equalize chances with the "mortal" of the equation |
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| Jul-28-09 | | MrMelad: <DwayneMeller:> I don't think anyone suggested Morphy could win against a top GM at knight odds. But I think his mere talent, if he was born today, would earn him a spot in that club. |
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| Mar-30-10 | | thegoodanarchist: <DwayneMeller: You guys need to remember...a knight is still a knight... to put it into perspective do you all think capa or alekhine would lose if the other was missing a knight? Or no matter who'd you think would win between fischer and kasparov do you REALLY think the other guy would lose to a knight down bobby or garry?> I think you have proven, beyond doubt, that Alekhine, Capablanca, Fischer and Kasparov are <all> better than Maurian! |
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| Sep-17-10 | | TheRavenPK: <I think you have proven, beyond doubt, that Alekhine, Capablanca, Fischer and Kasparov are <all> better than Maurian!> Yeah. Because he is dead. |
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| Oct-17-12 | | vinidivici: This game by itself becomes outdated. Maurian should bring his pieces to the king side not otherwise. And concern about the pieces development. |
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| May-29-16 | | Christoforus Polacco: <cracknik: after bishop takes f6 then what?> Look the first post of <Sneaky> : 26.Qh7+ Kf8 27.Bh6 ! (not 27.B:f6 ?) if 26... Q:h7 27.gh+ and next move 28.B:f6 |
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| May-29-16 | | Christoforus Polacco: <MostlyAverageJoe: 15.Rg1+ is a rather bad blunder by Morphy. 15.Qg2+ would win much faster.> I haven't chess analysis program cause killing independent thinking. So - it's only my own fantasy :) 15.Qh2+ Kh8 16.Qg6 and now black has a lot of the ways to lose the game :) For example: 16...Bh4+ 17.R:h4 Qe7 18.Q:h6+ Kg8 19.Rg4+ Kf7 20.Qg6++ or 16...Rf7 17.Q:h6+ (17.Q:f7 Qg8) Kg8 18.Rg1+ Bg5 19.R:g5+ Q:g5 20.Q:g5+ and white's winning is easy despite material equality. |
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