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Mar-02-10
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Steinitz wrote at length about Staunton on pages 210-213 of the July 1888 International Chess Magazine. Below is a digest of salient quotes: ‘… this very Mr Staunton had made himself notorious as the literary persecutor of Harrwitz, Löwenthal and Anderssen, whom he assailed with personal hostilities in his various writings including actually the annotations of games.’ After writing that Staunton had ‘tortured poor Morphy’ over the possibility of a match between them, and in particular Staunton’s suppression of a key paragraph in a Morphy letter, Steinitz referred to ‘my having received similar treatment at the hands of this Mr Staunton’. |
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Mar-02-10
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Boden's only win against Morphy in 11 known games. Morphy scored +6 -1 =4 against Boden.
P. W. Sergeant states in "Morphy's Games of Chess", that Morphy considered Boden to be the strongest of his English opponents. |
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Mar-02-10
 | | jessicafischerqueen: 5 board simultaneous game against Rivière, Boden, Barnes, Bird and Löwenthal. Morphy beat Rivière and Bird, lost to Barnes and drew against Boden and Löwenthal. |
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| Mar-02-10 | | Travis Bickle: MDJ = Most Definetly Jess!! ; ) |
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| Mar-02-10 | | Travis Bickle: Dear Dr. Jessica, since you are 'The Stanley Kubrick' of chess bio's and you are deep in the research mode of Project Morphy I think you need to retain two or three Chessgame members to be your assistants. Ya know, to forage after all the details, scour after the known & unknown facts and to assembly all the abc's of Paul Morphy for you to creatively and precisely turn into another Masterpiece!! P.S. With a great soundtrack of course! ; P |
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Mar-02-10
 | | chancho: <Jess> I'm not sure if you met a poster named <SBC>. She knows a great deal about Paul Morphy and she has a page on that great player. http://batgirl.atspace.com/
There is a whole lot of info on Morphy there. |
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| Mar-02-10 | | SugarDom: 165 kibitz to coronation night.
Yes, we want to change the current communist government with royalty... |
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| Mar-02-10 | | SugarDom: I meant Monarchy...
We want to shift CG's capital to Buckingham palace from Pyongyang... |
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Mar-02-10
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Travis> any help you want to give me with web resources on <Paul Morphy> would be fantastic! |
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Mar-02-10
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Chancho> thanks very much for that link- BATGIRL (Sarah Beth) is the absolute BOMB no doubt. Her material on <Menchik> was a big help- but this page you've linked me to is the MOTHER OF ALL MORPHY RARE PHOTOS site. Saints be praised <Chancho>!! I spent hours- hours I tell you- looking for a photo or drawing of <Owen> on the net and no dice and lo and behold BATGIRL's got a photo of him up on her page. Gracias!!! |
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Mar-02-10
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <SugarDom>
heh
I'm not a big fan of North Korea either.
Pace has slowed though since I keep putting on an <Alekhine> suit and a <Russian Grandmasters> suit too. |
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| Mar-02-10 | | Open Defence: check out the ho ho ho video in Doms place! |
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Mar-02-10
 | | chancho: Glad I could be of help <Jess>. |
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| Mar-03-10 | | Travis Bickle: Hi Jess, thanks for the Premiere of your new Morphy video part 1! Excellent so far! I love the music you chose! |
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Mar-03-10
 | | moronovich: <Jess>!
I just stopped by to say that I found your Morphy-video a brilliant piece of work !! The music,the pictures - it was almost like being there one self.Thanks my lady,and thumbs up for the next part. Cheers. |
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| Mar-03-10 | | Travis Bickle: Hello Yer Majesty!! ; P Come over to my house & listen to Traffic live & also Steve Winwood live! |
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| Mar-04-10 | | crawfb5: I finished that CC game that was giving me pause. Here is the critical position (me as White to move): click for larger viewI played 27. Bxe6 and eventually drew. A quick run through a couple of engines after the game ended suggested 27. Qh5 instead. I may write some notes to the game in my forum in the near future. |
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| Mar-04-10 | | achieve: So you did finish that game now?
I just half an hour read your wonderful email. Back later <L>. |
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| Mar-04-10 | | crawfb5: <N> Yes, the system finally gave me the option to claim the draw by repetition. In the email I think I referenced the wrong move because I was looking at the PGN rather than the position. The position here in Jess' forum is the one where I was stuck. |
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| Mar-04-10 | | achieve: <L> Looks to me you threaten Bxe7+ and Rd8+ check with mating threat - but haven't checked, neither extensively nor thoroughly with engine yet. Fascinating position. But of course Q takes e7 and covers <d8> ehh - I need to take more than 24 seconds before I open my mouth next time. Your h-pawn passer looks like a long term trump, but obviously too laborious to offer chances in CC. Not sure. Will indeed check it out.
Good to hear you have your "study" back and operational! ;) |
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| Mar-04-10 | | achieve: Extremely sharp position you arrived at, rook down, pawns/development up... This indeed looks like a computer type position. No wonder you got/felt stuck here... This is insanely complex material to enter. |
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| Mar-04-10 | | crawfb5: <Jess> Here's another recent CC game you might find amusing. It doesn't really have <fawn pawns> -- more like <pawns in full rut>. [Event "Lions Cup B002"]
[Site "SchemingMind.com"]
[Date "2010.02.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "crawfb5"]
[Black "NN"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B00"]
[WhiteCountry "USA"]
[BlackCountry "POL"]
[WhiteElo "2000"]
[BlackElo "2027"]
1. e4 Nc6 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Bg4 5. Be3 g6 6. h3 Bxf3 7. Qxf3 Bg7 8.
O-O-O O-O 9. g4 e6 10. h4 Nd7 11. g5 f6
 click for larger viewI thought this was a mistake. It weakens e6 when Black no longer has the LSB. 12. Qh3 Qe7 13. f4 e5
Now the a2-g8 diagonal is weak.
14. Bc4+ Kh8 15.
h5 fxg5 16. hxg6 h6 17. fxg5 exd4 18. gxh6
 click for larger viewConnected passed White pawns on g6 and h6 at move 18 deserve a diagram. 18...dxe3
<18...Be5 would last longer, but 19. g7+ is deadly> 19. hxg7+ Kxg7 20. Qh6+ 1-0
<20...Kf6 21. g7+ Ke5 22. Rd5#> |
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Mar-04-10
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Big Crawdaddy>
TROUBLE POSITION
Thanks for showing me that and JINX with <The Good Doctor>- I had an identical reaction- ultra sharp, my eye dove in and started "playing" and as <Neils> says it demands a lot more than 30 seconds. I will have time to look at it properly, in addition to the <Invading Poland> game, after work today. I was intrigued by the <Qh5> suggestion- it opens up a big can of worms. Back later- |
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Mar-04-10
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <moronovich: <Jess>!
I just stopped by to say that I found your Morphy-video a brilliant piece of work !! The music,the pictures - it was almost like being there one self.Thanks my lady,and thumbs up for the next part. Cheers.>
<moronovich> Thanks for taking the time to leave such an encouraging response to the Paul Morphy video- I really appreciate the feedback. |
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Mar-04-10
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Here is a new Chess History video:
"Paul Morphy: Mozart of Chess"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pRV... |
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