At which time control?

<Wow.. I didn't know there are CG members who can beat Morphy.>

Problematical. It depends on many factors. Chief among them: How comfortable are the respective players with time pressure and the psychological pressures of accepting odds?

Kasparov is quite strong in blitz, so I would expect him to have little trouble offering odds to virtually anyone, but this does not apply equally to all the strongest GMs.

For the other player, meanwhile, things are not so easy either. In San Francisco in 1999, I watched a solid 2200 player taking the odds, first, of five minutes to one, and later, of one minute to ten seconds, in a long series of games played over the course of several months. The odds-giver was a Filipino 2500 named Omar, and he won every game.

The odds-taker's quandary: how to manage his time advantage. If he moves slowly so as to make the best use of it, his opponent can think on his time. If he tries to stop this by moving fast, his advantage becomes meaningless.

(On the other hand, not everyone can match Omar's feat of completing ten moves in one second. That intimidated *me*, and I wasn't across the board from him.)

"At 5 o’clock the coffin was carried down by Edward Morphy, Edmond Morphy, Leonce Percy, Henry Percy, Edgar Hincks and Charles Maurian, his life long companion and former adversary over the chess board."