Paul Morphy: Mozart of Chess- Part three

In this segment Morphy finishes his match with Daniel Harrwitz and plays his famous Opera House game against the Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard. He receives a challenge from the fearsome German champion Adolf Anderssen, arguably the best chess player in the world since he obliterated Howard Staunton at the great London 1851 Supertournament.

Bill Wall Morphy biography http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/morphy.htm

Batgirl (Sarah Beth) Morphy biography http://batgirl.atspace.com/

KalkiAwaits chess videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/KalkiAwaits

Vonzi0000 chess videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/Vonzi0000

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Education

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• Paul Morphy
• Daniel Harrwitz
• Adolf Anderssen
• Howard Staunton
• Opera House Game
• chess
• chess world champions
• paris
• cafe de la regence

[chris69666]

Can I ask where the comments on this video come from? I feel they not quite fair to Harrwitz.

[jessicafischerqueen]

@chris69666 Hi Chris- the comments on Harrwitz come from "The Pride and Sorrow", Dominic Lawson's biography of Morphy.

[pagpmike]

What is the name of the song at the beginning?

[jessicafischerqueen]

@pagpmike I'm so retarded- I'm pretty sure it's Michael Nyman, but I can't find it on my hard drive now.

[jessicafischerqueen]

Thanks to Bill Wall and Batgirl (Sarah Beth) for their excellent Morphy biographies- the links to their web biographies are supplied in the "more info" box to your right.

Thanks also to KalkiAwaits and Vonzi0000 for their wonderful chess videos, and for helping me with this chess history series. The links to their chess channels is to the right.

[RookieN08]

@iodon i agree,

[iodon]

@SuperSmilingSmiley You cannot really compare players throughout such ages. Bobby Fisher was a nightmare for any grandmaster in his time, wiping everyone of the board. You cannot really say that he was no genius because of the estimated ELO or FIDE ratings.

[SuperSmilingSmiley]

Look at Harrwitz' estimated ELO rating. That man would have wiped Bobby Fischer off the board (as would most of todays chess masters by the way). The reason why that's incredible, is because he lived 100 years before Bobby Fischer, but I'm convinced Harrwitz would beat Fischer if they could have played 6 games, or 3 for that matter. Kasparov however, would beat any of them, Morphy included, because Kasparov would never fall for Morphy's neverending sacrifices and he would counter attack!

[corkystorky]

@jessicafischerqueen as far as I know, batgirl knows paul morphy than paul morphy knew himself

[fburton8]

@jessicafischerqueen Yep, it's Michael Nyman - a track from The Draughtsman's Contract called "Chasing Pawns is Best Left to Endgames". ;-)

[misterkefir]

oh god damn ... the Morphy could actually come to Wroclaw (Breslau) my home city ?!? but he got ill ? ...

god damnit !