I speak the sober truth. I used to play for Stevenage chess team (board 3). One game, playing white, I checkmated my opponent with a Queen's side castle. Like most of my games (1980s), I have long lost the score.
@@malcolmabram2957that’s incredible. It’s a different feeling entirely to master someone on the board that one. In the same vein as Lebron when he dunks you did the chess equivalent 😂
Morphy may be the GOAT in my opinion. No engines, no books, no games to be recalled by an extraterrestial memory. Just brilliant, innovative unadulterated chess and nothing else...
Yeah you can look at Morphy's games and claim that he plays like a "2400" But put any grandmaster in Morphy's era with the available chess knowledge back then and I'm not sure they could invent and innovate to that extent Also if Morphy played even 10 games against 2400's he would quickly adapt and improve. Even skeptics concede that he'd probably be a 2700 given modern knowledge and training
@@DanielSong39 I agree with Kasparov, that it is pointless comparing players from different eras. The strongest player can only be assessed in context of their era, and certainly in his time, Morphy dominated the chess world, just as Carlsen dominates chess in the current era.
@@DanielSong39it's all about understanding the game, which he was likely better at than anyone else. Give him 6 mos to brush up on modern theory and hed still be a top player.
@@kaanozk Yes. Morphy has raw talent, I believe. Then Bobby perfected his talent with immense passion. What do I really know? All I know is that we are lucky to enjoy the games of these chess giants. I am so grateful.
One of the biggest what-ifs in history is if Morphy had computers and advanced theory to work from with his pure natural understanding of the game. He probably would have been the greatest player in history given how little time he had to seriously work with the game and the low level of competition to truly refine his skills.
Paul Morphy was able to humiliate his opponents was because the Paul Morphy had better understanding of the game if he was born in today's era, he wouldnt have had this competitive advantage because his opponents would have had access to stockfish too. So its even playing field.
actually no coz the competition on his time was trash. He is nothing in front of nowadays grandmaster and if he got computers he would be equal to grandmasters nothing more.
@@aadityaadhanraj5834One could argue that all the previous generations were trash comapred to modern era, which would be wrong of course. You logic is flawed obviously. Morphy's competition was not trash, just like Ford wasn't trash in the 1920s just because there exist monster sport cars today. You have to be able to put things in perspective when you analyze two completely different eras. It's not that hard. And yeah, Morphy was a chess genius.
Morphy will be one of the weakest grandmasters currently but at his time with no computers and no theories, this guy was a pure genius, i don't doubt he would have been a wolrd champion if he was born at our time.
Are you kidding? His didn't even play the fried liver correctly. He could have ended that game quickly the moment black moved his knight inoptimally to D4
@@ScorpionF1RE_USAwell a cheater did that using an engine against Magnus. Not in this fashion though, but regardless.. he walked that king up the board.
I was wondering how it was a checkmate in the first two mates so I went back and paused at the checkmate and noticed the Bishops in both mates who made it possible It would've been better if I was given time to analyze the checkmate instead of being forced to rewind the video
@@takahashi2852 but think of it like this, for those who don't wanna pause or wait will need to skip ahead which is worse than pausing or rewinding. You don't know if you miss something if you skip ahead so most people will never skip. On the other hand pausing literally takes 1 click and rewinding is just as easy.
@@quackduckquack A middle ground would be actually explaining the checkmate by highlighting which piece blocks which square For example telling us that the king can't simply just take the rook because it's protected by a bishop
Great video and great selection of Games. I'm a Newbie to Chess at 52 And only just learnt castling correctly.... sort of anyways. Memory rather poor these days. Haven't watched many Chess games and only of the past GM's. Haven't watched any of the modern players at all. Paul was a natural Chess genius. Watching several of his famous Chess games, it seems that Booby Fischer was heavily influenced by Paul's strategy and method of play, namely attacking. From my rather limited knowledge and observations, I personally believe that Paul, Sultan Khan and Bobby Fischer are amongst the top five GOAT Chess players.
It's amazing that Morphy had only a limited number of chess books to study from (if he did at all) but yet develop chess theory himself. He was just 12 in this game, and would sacifice pieces to checkmate. Most players do not want to sacifice a piece, but his extraordinary calculating and creative play makes his games very excting to study. He was the best of all time.
I’m form New Orleans Morphy is my idol as chess player before Mangus you had Morphy even Bobby Fisher said the greatest chess player ever was Morphy. The way he beat people he played rapid chess in classical chess. He didn’t care what you tried to do he just disregarded it for his gain
The darkest moment in chess history is that Morphy was born 50 years before the game got a real recognition and actual masters attended to it, like Lasker, Steinitz, Alekhine, etc. Imagine Morphy against them, dude was too broken for his times
2:20 uh... can we not say "mated him"? Can we keep it the longwinded way and say "checkmated him"? I don't like to think of a 12 year old mating his uncle especially in a beautiful way. Thanks.
The first game was so beautiful I forgot that I clicked on this video because of the 3rd game until you pointed it out. I could never hope to play as good as him, what a genius.
Very interesting biography of Mr. Morphy! And I thought “Morphy Bob” at Coffee Chess just exaggerated at Paul Morphy’s greatness… now I know I’m wrong!
When Anderssen's friends asked him why he didn't play as brilliantly with Morphy as he does with others, Anderssen replied, "Morphy wouldn't let me!. It is of no use struggling against this man. He is just like a piece of machinery that is sure to come to a certain conclusion. It is impossible to play chess better than Mr. Morphy. Nobody can hope to win more than a game or two from him!" And mind you, Anderssen was considered to be the strongest player in Europe at the time.
Morphy was better than Steinitz. Steinitz had 8-6 with an old Anderssen while Morphy had 8-3(heck in the last game he lost due to getting bored and hungry as there was no clock that time)
Thank you for this video!! ❤ All the games in this video are legendary. 🔥 I can't figure out how one can calculate this well. That too without any modern training!!! Paul Morphy is a true genius🔥🔥 Hope I too can calculate moves someday lol.
Fue el mejor porque era el mejor o por la baja calidad de competidores? Me queda esa duda. Que habria hecho contra Bobby Magnus Nakamura Kasparov Capablanca?
Wow... What a legacy. Simply born in the wrong age of mankind. Today he would be a famous and wealthy grandmaster crushing his opponents and dominating the chess scene with other great minds.
ok...ok....i get it now. I had thought that Morphy was just good at chess during a time when everyone else sucked. After seeing those games..... I get it. He was other worldly.
"[He] was just born in the wrong generation." That gets you thinking. Imagine if he had been born a whole century later (1937) and lived longer. He still would have been at a fairly advanced age when chess computers started getting big, but there were a lot of great players who began to emerge at the time that could have given him a challenge. Furthermore, assuming he had lived to an advanced age from that hypothetical date, he could have been damn near 90 (as of this writing) and probably still regularly participating in tournaments. It would be incredibly hilarious to see Hans "Wait Until They're Old" Niemann getting utterly humiliated by a man in his late eighties.
I'd love to see some of the players from the past play some people from recent history. This guy against a Capablanca or Tal or Magnus.... you get the idea.
Can I tell you about a checkers tragedy. There was this insane player, who could beat the strongest engines with ease. He was the only one who could do it. So these people created this new engine that was insanely powerful and good. When they tried to play it against the master, he had already died just a measly few hours before. We will never know if he lost.
If someone castled checked mated me, That'll be my last game
puede pasar, ojo.
I speak the sober truth. I used to play for Stevenage chess team (board 3). One game, playing white, I checkmated my opponent with a Queen's side castle. Like most of my games (1980s), I have long lost the score.
@@malcolmabram2957that’s incredible. It’s a different feeling entirely to master someone on the board that one. In the same vein as Lebron when he dunks you did the chess equivalent 😂
What would you do then? Make some money doing something productive? lol
i once did it, lol was insane game
Morphy may be the GOAT in my opinion. No engines, no books, no games to be recalled by an extraterrestial memory. Just brilliant, innovative unadulterated chess and nothing else...
Yeah you can look at Morphy's games and claim that he plays like a "2400"
But put any grandmaster in Morphy's era with the available chess knowledge back then and I'm not sure they could invent and innovate to that extent
Also if Morphy played even 10 games against 2400's he would quickly adapt and improve. Even skeptics concede that he'd probably be a 2700 given modern knowledge and training
@@DanielSong39 Playing at a 2400 elo strength was just insane back then. According to Ben Finegold, he would be at Magnus Carlsen's peak + 10 elo.
@@DanielSong39 I agree with Kasparov, that it is pointless comparing players from different eras. The strongest player can only be assessed in context of their era, and certainly in his time, Morphy dominated the chess world, just as Carlsen dominates chess in the current era.
@@DanielSong39 well now take Morphy to our days and give him proper education from 3yo
@@DanielSong39it's all about understanding the game, which he was likely better at than anyone else. Give him 6 mos to brush up on modern theory and hed still be a top player.
"Then he sacrifices...THE QUEEN!" - Gotham Chess
He qas so ahed of his time he knew how to play the botez gambit
rook
But he started by giving his uncle ..... THE ROOOOOOOOK!!!!! 😀
Funny
He was basically bobby fisher before bobby fisher
This is the best comment!
Raw talent morphy > Bobby.
@@kaanozk Yes. Morphy has raw talent, I believe. Then Bobby perfected his talent with immense passion. What do I really know? All I know is that we are lucky to enjoy the games of these chess giants. I am so grateful.
@@ronaldo_ofalia good for you
Fischer
That last game king walk was insane
without healer?!!
One of the biggest what-ifs in history is if Morphy had computers and advanced theory to work from with his pure natural understanding of the game. He probably would have been the greatest player in history given how little time he had to seriously work with the game and the low level of competition to truly refine his skills.
the what if, is if he played till 24-25 years old. if he had all the other stuff would be other what ifs
Paul Morphy was able to humiliate his opponents was because the Paul Morphy had better understanding of the game if he was born in today's era, he wouldnt have had this competitive advantage because his opponents would have had access to stockfish too. So its even playing field.
actually no coz the competition on his time was trash. He is nothing in front of nowadays grandmaster and if he got computers he would be equal to grandmasters nothing more.
@@aadityaadhanraj5834One could argue that all the previous generations were trash comapred to modern era, which would be wrong of course. You logic is flawed obviously. Morphy's competition was not trash, just like Ford wasn't trash in the 1920s just because there exist monster sport cars today. You have to be able to put things in perspective when you analyze two completely different eras. It's not that hard. And yeah, Morphy was a chess genius.
He is Magnus in this incarnation. Nobody talks about this, not even Magnus knows himself.
I think Morphy was born with Stockfish inside his brain. Very nice video tho!
Stockfish would obliterate him 😂
Morphy will be one of the weakest grandmasters currently but at his time with no computers and no theories, this guy was a pure genius, i don't doubt he would have been a wolrd champion if he was born at our time.
He was an artist, not a robot.
@@shehabgamal8640 If he had the all privileges we have now he would be the absolute best
Are you kidding? His didn't even play the fried liver correctly. He could have ended that game quickly the moment black moved his knight inoptimally to D4
Reaching the 8th rank with the King is pretty legendary too
LOL
No, it's humiliating.
If you want to see a white king reacing a8, check out Van de Loo vs Hesling
@@Ushkilushkithanks couldnt remember what game it was
@@ScorpionF1RE_USAwell a cheater did that using an engine against Magnus. Not in this fashion though, but regardless.. he walked that king up the board.
Paul morphy was the mozart of chess. There will never be another paul morphy ever. One of the beautiful minds to play the game
Its sad that we will never know what Morphy’s final form looked like.
What is sadder is he was never given the opportunity to beat Staunton's goofy ass
@@tappajaav Staunton knew how strong he was lmao
@@tappajaav Staunton shat his pants when Morphy was in Europe
1:19 Retreating the bishop to f8 doesn't protect the b7 pawn. You are on the wrong side of the board.
this video is 100% ai generated
@@sofiana580 Maybe he accidentally typed 'b' instead of 'g' in the script as they are pretty close to each other on keyboard layout
@@sofiana580 Maybe he accidentally typed 'b' instead of 'g' in the script as they are pretty close to each other on keyboard layout
@@quackduckquackyou don't need to type if twice
At the end of each game, could you wait a couple seconds before moving on for folks to linger on the final move? Other than that, the pacing is good.
There is a option to pause videos on TH-cam
It's YT. Just pause and review. You can even go backwards in case you didn't know. LOL
I was wondering how it was a checkmate in the first two mates so I went back and paused at the checkmate and noticed the Bishops in both mates who made it possible
It would've been better if I was given time to analyze the checkmate instead of being forced to rewind the video
@@takahashi2852 but think of it like this, for those who don't wanna pause or wait will need to skip ahead which is worse than pausing or rewinding. You don't know if you miss something if you skip ahead so most people will never skip. On the other hand pausing literally takes 1 click and rewinding is just as easy.
@@quackduckquack A middle ground would be actually explaining the checkmate by highlighting which piece blocks which square
For example telling us that the king can't simply just take the rook because it's protected by a bishop
What a great video, you deserve way more attention!
Great video and great selection of Games. I'm a Newbie to Chess at 52 And only just learnt castling correctly.... sort of anyways. Memory rather poor these days.
Haven't watched many Chess games and only of the past GM's. Haven't watched any of the modern players at all.
Paul was a natural Chess genius. Watching several of his famous Chess games, it seems that Booby Fischer was heavily influenced by Paul's strategy and method of play, namely attacking.
From my rather limited knowledge and observations, I personally believe that Paul, Sultan Khan and Bobby Fischer are amongst the top five GOAT Chess players.
It's amazing that Morphy had only a limited number of chess books to study from (if he did at all) but yet develop chess theory himself. He was just 12 in this game, and would sacifice pieces to checkmate. Most players do not want to sacifice a piece, but his extraordinary calculating and creative play makes his games very excting to study. He was the best of all time.
Well pieces get sacrificed all the time. These games are the reason why.. the engine moves are based on human games.
@@Ishbikes currenyly engines learn using self play. They don't need any human moves as help
He was magnus who was just born too early
What a poetic way to look at it!
Imagine if he had faced Tal instead, it would have been called the "THE GAME OF THE CENTURY"
I feel like Morphy would win
Tal was basically the reincarnation of Morphy
I’m form New Orleans Morphy is my idol as chess player before Mangus you had Morphy even Bobby Fisher said the greatest chess player ever was Morphy. The way he beat people he played rapid chess in classical chess. He didn’t care what you tried to do he just disregarded it for his gain
Turn on caption in 7:31
😂😂😂
XD
NAHHHHHHHH😂
LMAOOOOO
4:46 isn't that how Levy mated an IM? in a different way, but still by a queen sacrifice and a rook-bishop
O-O# is a crazy notation.
4:45 My true reaction: "bree-illiant... bre-illiant... Bellissimo!" [chef's kiss]
A Paul Morphy game will never let you down. Always fireworks on the board.
2:51 what is this "anali zed" of which you speak?
Is this the real life or botsnake mcjoogleson strikes again
"you can't fight this army all alone!" - king of the last game: "wait a sec...!!"
Thanks! beautiful games, honestly amazing playing, starting a piece down
Thank you so much 😊🙌
WOW! Amazing work m8! Waiting for the next one! Cheers!
The darkest moment in chess history is that Morphy was born 50 years before the game got a real recognition and actual masters attended to it, like Lasker, Steinitz, Alekhine, etc. Imagine Morphy against them, dude was too broken for his times
thank u for this video.... great narration , need more videos like this❤
AI voice.
AI voice.
2:20 uh... can we not say "mated him"? Can we keep it the longwinded way and say "checkmated him"? I don't like to think of a 12 year old mating his uncle especially in a beautiful way. Thanks.
Morphy had a big inheritance essentially and didn’t need to work. He tried to start a law practice but didn’t stick with it.
He got ruined by the war and its aftermath.
As I understand it, Morphy was pro-Union during the Civil War and that was bad for business.
The first game mate is amazing...putting you knight in the corner like that to win is super impressive.
I never see someone play like this in this era,even in bobby fischer and gary's era.So scary
The first game was so beautiful I forgot that I clicked on this video because of the 3rd game until you pointed it out. I could never hope to play as good as him, what a genius.
Thanks to this video i fell in love with Paul Morphy and memorized two games thank you
love to hear that :)
Just starting my chess journey. This was beautiful to watch. Pure artistry.
thank you that means a lot!
Poor uncle. For once the UNCLE got traumatized.
Love Morphy! Good vid. Ty
The real game starts at 5:05
Great video. Thank you.
he could beat anyone today especially with all the technology and new theories
His brain literally got blue balled to death
The only channel which makes content about the lives of famous chess masters beyond analysis
The title told me I didn’t need to know anything else about this checkmate. Otherwise I probably would’ve watched the video.
Brilliant checkmate by a 12 year old Paul Morphy in the first game, with a rook down too...outstanding performance!!! Bravo!!!
if i checkmate like this i d quit too, can t get any better.
Thanks for making this a fast paced video. Long chess videos are boring.
I castled and realized it was brilliant
Very interesting biography of Mr. Morphy! And I thought “Morphy Bob” at Coffee Chess just exaggerated at Paul Morphy’s greatness… now I know I’m wrong!
When Anderssen's friends asked him why he didn't play as brilliantly with Morphy as he does with others, Anderssen replied, "Morphy wouldn't let me!. It is of no use struggling against this man. He is just like a piece of machinery that is sure to come to a certain conclusion. It is impossible to play chess better than Mr. Morphy. Nobody can hope to win more than a game or two from him!" And mind you, Anderssen was considered to be the strongest player in Europe at the time.
Morphy was better than Steinitz.
Steinitz had 8-6 with an old Anderssen while Morphy had 8-3(heck in the last game he lost due to getting bored and hungry as there was no clock that time)
Amazing video! That first checkmate was SUPER sick
In one word, AMAZING!
Thank you for this video!! ❤
All the games in this video are legendary. 🔥
I can't figure out how one can calculate this well. That too without any modern training!!! Paul Morphy is a true genius🔥🔥
Hope I too can calculate moves someday lol.
Thank you so much1!
the actual game where he castled checkmate 5:05
Castling out of a Checkmate❌
Castling to Checkmate ✅
6:12 that position is not "completely losing for white"
First there is morphy and then mir sultan khan this makes me say a quote.............."The greatest chess players are the one uncrowned"
At 2:15 why didn't Morphy's opponent capture Rook with the queen. It would have been a mate and the king didn't have any chance to escape...
Because it was a check for black king from knight so He can't move the queen first he has to save the king
Fue el mejor porque era el mejor o por la baja calidad de competidores? Me queda esa duda. Que habria hecho contra Bobby Magnus Nakamura Kasparov Capablanca?
This is all without chess engines… insane.
Laywer? 8:02
Great info!
Easily the greatest ever in my view. He turned chess into an art form
He was a crazy tactics master from my opinion.
I lost like this a couple days ago. I was pissed and awed at the same time. Lol
You lost with a castle?🤨
@@Ishbikes yes.
ok but who recorded these games
That castling checkmate would not have been possible if Morphy hadn't given up the rook at the start.
Chess has to be the greatest game of all time
There was Paul Morphy then there was Bobby Fischer
We're still waiting for the next one
some ppl will say that one is magnus, but I disagree.. being an artist is not as memorizing a bunch of theories and crap
@@Gupatik I think Magnus' career is quite comparable to Kasparov, both are legends themselves!
Morphy composed his first chess puzzle at age 10.
DID HE JUST CONVERT THE SCOTCH INTO THE DANISH GAMBIT IN THE FIRST GAME?!
Jesus .... The last game is really incredible!
Incredible
I don't know anything about Morfy
But this game indicates brilliance of the beautiful mind
Very interested
He's called the Pride and Sorrow of chess for a reason. His story is extremely tragic and sad..
would like a second or 2 to see the checkmate in each game, but you give us only a split second.
Wow... What a legacy. Simply born in the wrong age of mankind. Today he would be a famous and wealthy grandmaster crushing his opponents and dominating the chess scene with other great minds.
Greatest ches player of all time , with no theory books nor engine ,nor technology.
-Throughout the heaven and earth...
- I am alone the honored one
©Maybe P.Morphy
I also had a game where checkmated the opponent by castling.. My rating is very low though
One of the most beautiful video about Morphy on youtube.. just subscribed! ❤
Excelente vídeo.Saludos.
Very informative
Why you added picture of Scarlett Johansson in thumbnail 😮just asking?
7:30 P word advantage?
His name was Morphy but he has no Mercy to opponent simply great
ok...ok....i get it now.
I had thought that Morphy was just good at chess during a time when everyone else sucked.
After seeing those games..... I get it. He was other worldly.
Morphy and Tal are my favorite players…. Morphy is my favorite… but it will be Tal again as soon as I see a vid on Tal. 😉
I feel like Morphy would have given Magnus a tough game, assuming Carlsen could even beat him.
Do Grandmasters plan these full stories all the way from the beginning or just go with what happening, im not a chess player
"[He] was just born in the wrong generation."
That gets you thinking. Imagine if he had been born a whole century later (1937) and lived longer. He still would have been at a fairly advanced age when chess computers started getting big, but there were a lot of great players who began to emerge at the time that could have given him a challenge.
Furthermore, assuming he had lived to an advanced age from that hypothetical date, he could have been damn near 90 (as of this writing) and probably still regularly participating in tournaments. It would be incredibly hilarious to see Hans "Wait Until They're Old" Niemann getting utterly humiliated by a man in his late eighties.
My idol!
There is no “chess genius”, there is only genius’s who enjoy playing chess.
Bro has brilliant in his blood
The first mate was some alien stuff
dude Sloan from the generations thing did that to me
I'd love to see some of the players from the past play some people from recent history. This guy against a Capablanca or Tal or Magnus.... you get the idea.
Can I tell you about a checkers tragedy. There was this insane player, who could beat the strongest engines with ease. He was the only one who could do it. So these people created this new engine that was insanely powerful and good. When they tried to play it against the master, he had already died just a measly few hours before. We will never know if he lost.
I’ve only seen king checkmate twice in my life
The title is just to addictive
"Paul was an artist"
It was a "walk-in" checkmate.
The title made me want to not click the video
it worked tho
@ you slick genius
What a game! Beautiful