Paul Morphy: Mozart of Chess- Part two

In this segment Morphy arrives in London, and Howard Staunton begins his long quest to avoid playing a match with him. While he waits, Morphy plays matches against Johann Lowenthal, John Owen, and Henry Bird. He travels to the fabled Cafe de la Regence in France, where he begins a match with Daniel Harrwitz, who beats Morphy three times in a row. Can Morphy come back?

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Paul Morphy
• Howard Staunton
• Adolf Anderssen
• Johann Lowenthal
• Henry Bird
• Daniel Harrwitz
• chess champions
• Cafe de la Regence
• Great Exhibition
• London 1851 Chess Tournament

[jessicafischerqueen]

Opening music is "Vorspiel" by Richard Wagner

[Ronin27x]

Anybody know the music at 7:46 onwards?

[jessicafischerqueen]

@Ronin27x  It's "raising the sails" by Philip Glass. Part of the soundtrack to "The Truman Show".

[SuperSmilingSmiley]

I think it's fair to mention that Harrwitz was an absolute genius, not only for beating Morphy (who, ofcourse, was a genius as well), but you should also take the age difference into consideration. Harrwitz didn't win by attacking, but by defending in a perfect way (yes ''perfect'', even todays modern chess engines calculate most of his defensive moves against Morphy's attacks as absolutely brilliant). He even beat Morphy when playing with black!! He wasn't French by the way, he was German.

[corkystorky]

damn the day i bumped my head on this videos, thank you thank you thank you

[IlluminatoSavio]

Un grande lavoro di ricerca, bei video, ottime musiche, mi piacciono questi video.

saluti dalla Svizzera

[iwantyourtube]

staunton didn't quest to avoid morphy. staunton realised he would have to take time off work to practise but he could not leave or legal action would have been taken against him. and morphy could have played him at birmingham but was pesuaded not to.

[Moremover]

In the past our teachers were always the grandmasters and worldchampions, nowadays our teachers are the computers. They play , solve and compose . So have a look at youtube.com :

/watch?v=mwYQRteeHbE

[PGGMMLB]

Absolutek superb! l agree with KalkiA 100% The only thing that was upsetting was that the video had to end. l'll be anxiously awaiting for part 3!

[PGGMMLB]

l agree with KalkiAwaits 100%...lt was truly an absolute pleasure to watch this. l loved the almighty King's Gambit game...as l told KalkiA before, Morphy is the reason l love playng it! l also loved the choice of music!. l just wish the vid didn't have to end! l'll be waiting for part 3! much appreciation for your vid...we'll fibd a way to promote these great videos!!