ChessTactics: Paul Morphy - Count Isouard, Duke of Brunswick

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Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 - July 10, 1884), "The Pride and Sorrow of Chess," was an American chess player. He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era, one of the greatest of all time and an unofficial World Chess Champion. He was also one of the first chess prodigies in the modern rules of chess era.

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[efflurage]

I really like your chess videos and would like to see more.  Thanks,

[hackman1911]

Paul morphy,possibly the greatest player ever? He certainly had to be the most dominant player of his era right?

[ooooooohmy]

@bailinnumberguy yes fair point, pls accept my apologies.

[bailinnumberguy]

@ooooooohmy Yep, you're correct. Missed that the black queen was defended by the dark squared bishop.  You probably could've made your point w/o the condescension. It always amazes me how commenters choose to correct others and fail to proofread their response for distracting typos. Thanks for the correction.

[ooooooohmy]

black drops the pawn i should have said of course

[ooooooohmy]

how is the rook on a8 'there for the taking'. that is not so at all. if Qxb7 then ...Qb4+ (forcing a trade of Qs) when white drops only a pawn. and in so doing opens a file for his rook, with probably more piece activiy. it a;ways amazes me how little those who comment on chess vids actually understand chess.

[bailinnumberguy]

Morphy doesn't even bother w/ the rook on a8, which is his for the taking. He sees how horrible black's position is and how weak the player is and just starts pinning everything and developing, winning w/ his 2 remaining pieces.

[TheOneBlackSheep1973]

@john17972 Count Isuouard and Duke Karl of Brunswick its two people playing a consultation game against Morphy , just saying thats all .

[imitareimitare]

Beautiful!

[eczp2002]

@Yamui67sx - All the same he would lose

[eczp2002]

@gornass --- I guess you did not get what I mean... I was replying to yamui's comment and in kudos to him he clarified it. By the way I am a city chess champion and several other tournaments... so I guess I can understand a little bit of chess.

[Yamui67sx]

@eczp2002

After some analysis of the black's pieces and white's attacking pieces, Qe6 is probably the move I would have made. There is some discrepency in my comment, and for that I apologize. After the trade off in pieces, I did not mean to say that black is in a better position because he is now better off than white, but that he is in a better position than he would have been if he had moved his rook to d8, blocking in his king. I hope that's cleared up the discrepency somewhat.