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| Apr-04-03 | | ughaibu: BishopBerkeley: I've just come from the Anderssen page, thanks for posting all that. It makes my own defences of Anderssen look petty and aside the point. |
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| Apr-05-03 | | jimd: anyone know a good book on pawn endings |
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| Apr-23-03 | | Corben: Morphy another chess "machine" and a true genious in the level of Capablanca and Fischer. It was quite logical that this last two players have praised Morphy. "The best of them all" (Fischer), "...Morphy had the best brain for chess... tactics, strategic, he had a clear mind in every aspect of the game" (Capablanca) Reviewing his games only support those statements above. A complete genious, a mind made at the shape of chess with the minimum of difficulties for understanding the game. Only a few of them in the history of chess, geniouses at his maximum, Morphy, Capablanca, Fischer, Kramnik. |
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| May-15-03 | | PaulMorphyisnotdead: Morphy quit chess at an early age (for chess) because he was to good for it... |
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| May-15-03 | | ksadler: I thought that it was because he was ticked off that he couldn't get a match with Staunton and then went insane...and <jimd> I am working through Averbakh's pawn endings now and it seems to be good, although it is in Q-QB3 notation (the name of it escapes me at the time). |
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| May-15-03 | | AgentRgent: <Ksadler> Descriptive |
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| May-15-03 | | Ribeiro: Edward Lasker mentions in his book "The Adventure of Chess" that Morphy tried to establish himself as a lawyer in New Orleans but was rejected by some people as "merely a chess player". |
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| May-16-03 | | ughaibu: The "mere chessplayer" story is usually attributed to his rejection by a woman to whom he was paying court, in fact he said it himself on his return from Europe "mere entertainer". His legal career collapsed (I think his only case was on his own behalf against his brother in law) because he was nuts. |
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| May-16-03 | | Ribeiro: <ughaibu> Lasker mentions the "court" history, and the same "feeling of rejection" occurs when he writes about Morphy´s career. That is why I also used "merely a chess player" (an expression associated with the girl) in this context. Thanks! |
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| May-16-03 | | ughaibu: I wonder what he would have said today when "mere entertainers" behave like royalty, taxing the populace through cinemas and video, even giving us dynasties of Mitchums and Douglases, really sticking their oars in the cases of Reagan, Jackson, Eastwood, La Conchita or whatever that Italian porn star was called....? |
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May-22-03
 | | lostemperor: <Paul Morphy> was known as a combinational player although he understands positional play also. He just did not need to play positionally since his opponents already made tactical errors. Three of his goldengames you can find in my gamecollections A history of chess. Here three more
Morphy vs C Stanley, 1857
Bird vs Morphy, 1858
The first part of
Morphy vs Harrwitz, 1858 shows Morphies positional understanding. |
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| Jun-12-03 | | Jonber2: The story of Morphy supposed interest in women shoes is a myth, originating from his habit of organizing his own shoes neatly by his bed. Morphy was a meticulous dresser, and organizing his shoe in this manner made it easy to see which pair of shoes he should wear. This wasn’t juicy enough for certain chess biographers, so they wrote that Morphy liked to place his shoes in a circle in the middle of the room, “because he liked to look at them”. The story developed further with time, and soon reach the form that is often presented today, that Morphy liked to sit in a circle of several hundred women shoes, looking at them. |
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| Jun-12-03 | | ughaibu: Jonber2: Who's to say which version is the myth? Reading about the degree of lunacy that Fischer's involved in today why should we be surprised if Morphy was equally nutty then? |
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| Jun-12-03 | | Jonber2: For all I know, Morphy could have been stark, raving mad, and God knows chess has fostered enough eccentrics as it is. But the story of his interest in women shoes is, non-the-less, a falsification. The world of chess is full of malicious myths and spiteful rumours, many of them purposely created to sell more books or slander hated opponents. One persistently popular myth is about this or that chess player going temporarily insane, tearing his cloths off and running around naked and screaming in public. Another is the tale of a Russian chess player whose head supposedly exploded due to chemical and electric imbalances in the brain caused by sever mental strain during a simultaneous exhibit in Moscow. Most of these myths are innocent enough, and in their way contribute to make the chess world more interesting. More dangerous are the rumours however when they concerns named and still living chess players, and especially so because the character of the stories are often such that it’s difficult distinguish fact from fiction. We have all probably heard the rumour that a certain top-ten player supposedly likes to sit under a cherry-tree howling at the moon after a game. Is it true? Being only a spectator to top-level chess, I have no way of knowing, which is exactly the purpose of rumours. As to Fischer, I’m also in no position to discern the true and false in the many rumours floating around, though I’m inclined to believe the stories of his political views, but disbelieve many of the other rumours. But, though I might feel sad for him, I would be careful not to label political opinions as a result of lunacy, no matter of crazy they might seem to me. |
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| Jun-12-03 | | ughaibu: Jonber2: Perhaps I didn't word my question very well, how do you know? |
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| Jun-12-03 | | Jonber: Morphy’s supposed interest in women shoes has been addressed by chess historian Edward Winter in his column over at chesscafe.com. Isn’t it interesting though, that the myth is unquestionably accepted as truth, while the declination is immediately demanded to present proof? :-) |
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| Jun-12-03 | | ughaibu: Personally I dont care which is the truth but one is certainly more amusing. |
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| Jun-12-03 | | Calli: <ughaibu> This is the familiar "prove a negative" trap. In the absence of any evidence that a story is true (shoes, in this case), someone, (Jonber), is challenged to prove something is NOT true. This is clearly impossible. What if I said there was no evidence that the earth was visited by aliens, and you said that I had no evidence that it had NOT been visited. Okay, but that doesn't prove that it has been visited. Its sidestepping the question of whether there is any evidence for aliens. Or women's shoes for that matter. |
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| Jun-12-03 | | Jonber: Though I might see your point, ughaibu, I’m not so sure the family of Paul Morphy find it equally amusing, nor other high-profile players who has had their lives and career ruined as a result of unsubstantiated rumours. As to evidence, I referee to the above mentioned source. |
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| Jun-13-03 | | Larsker: <What if I said there was no evidence that the earth was visited by aliens> Yeah - so who built them pyramids then? ;-) |
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| Jun-13-03 | | ksadler: <Larsker> Thousands and thousands of slaves :( |
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| Jul-30-03 | | uponthehill: In my opinion it was the best player of all times. Of course it's difficuilt to compare masters from different times, but he was the only one who was totally behind the range of his counterparts. Fischer and Kasparow found the players who stole some points from them- Morphy was crushing every oponent, oftenly without giving a chance to gain a single point. I invite all of you to my Paul Morphy's Page:
www.morphy.prv.pl |
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| Aug-05-03 | | bishop: "The magnificent American master had the most extraordinary brain that anybody has ever had for chess. Technique, strategy, tactics, knowledge which is inconceivable for us; all that was possessed by Morphy fifty-four years ago. One example: in his time theoretical knowledge of the openings did not exist, so to speak, yet what Morphy played fifty-six years ago against the Petroff Defense is considered today by Lasker and me to be the strongest continuation for White."-Capablanca on Morphy, quoted from the book CAPABLANCA by Edward Winter. |
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| Aug-05-03 | | Sylvester: Didn't Fischer say something like that about Morphy? |
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| Aug-05-03 | | PVS: In the early sixtes when Fischer compiled his top ten list, he said that in a set match Morphy would defeat anyone then playing. |
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