Totally agree with the final comment, showing the not so great Morphy games from the saga also really makes us understand that no one is perfect and everyone loses sometimes. Nice video and loving the saga, thank you Antonio!
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Was going to say this, well put sir! Besides the satisfying aspect of seeing legends be human, it'd be quite boring to only see victories - this game for example had great tension.
0:00 Hello everyone 0:0215:42 The Good Stuff 0:21 Complicated yet simple/Simple yet complicated 0:30 Without further ado 0:356:29 Sorry about that 1:22 Never been reached again 1:398:368:559:5010:2312:4913:06 Captures captures 4:38 (...cappers and captures!) 2:05 A lot of pressure 2:22 Double attack 2:40 Unless they're like Thomas Wilson Barnes 3:11 Star move 3:50 Really funny checkmate 4:36 Capture-fest 5:06 Okay to play f6 7:22 Completely lost 7:3012:09 Give you a couple of seconds 7:4512:18 Enjoy the show 10:40 Triangulation party 12:47 agadmator rap 13:13 It was in this position 13:37 Completely winning 13:5814:5715:31 So yeah 14:19 Complete snooze-fest 14:33 Friends at the bar and the library 15:06 Special message 15:21 Checkmate for life 15:43 Morphy saga
**My friends at the bar/library**: Morphy was a total beast! He obliterated everyone! **Me, the smartass**: Yeah but do you remember that game vs Löwenthal in 1858 when he made the wrong pawn push?
As someone who's been trying to get more into chess these days - I find the basic principles about the pawn and king endgames to be fascinating. I'm one of those players where when I reach the king and pawn endgame I just kind of push stuff and hope for the best lol. Gotta keep studying it seems. Thanks!
At 5:41 morphy didn’t take the rook because he loses a pawn at the end of the variation.Rxd8 Qxd8 Bxc5 Qd1 Kf2 Qxc2 Kf1 and Qxc5 winning back the bishop and up a pawn.
From all the games I have seen, I believe that Morphy was actually quite imprecise in Endgames, simply because he didn't really get a lot of OTB practice. He generally played instantly and in endgames, that's sometimes quite costly.
The endgame in general wasn't too heavily studied back then, since if you weren't sacrificing everything and smacking the other guy's king, were you really even playing chess? Still, Morphy's natural understanding of the game allowed him to play the endgame fairly well, this game notwithstanding. Game 3 of his 1857 Chess Congress match with James Thompson comes to mind: www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1336498
He played the endgame well but of all aspects of chess, the endgame is the one which most resembles a computer. The only old player who can really match up to modern computer assisted players is probably Capablanca.
Wow, a shout out from agadmator - thanks babe, looking forward to the merch present you got me from his store. Aggy, love your videos, been subscribed since about 100,000 subscribers and have loved watching you grow and grow and grow, keep it up dude.
@@thegorn That's funny, I can see your take. I grant Agad has a certain masculine charm to him and that voice...but he's spoken for as am I so perhaps in another life. ;-)
I am really happy to see your progress and evolution throughout the years. You are doing an excellent job and you deserve everything you have achieved. Keep up with the good stuff! :)
Some of the greatest games of all time are ones a non-titled player can appreciate and watch over and over, and yet find relatively little in there that they're able to actually take into their own games, because the ideas were so brilliant and so situational that the odds of being able to replicate the winning principle are slim. This, whilst decent, some might describe as forgettable. But it's very instructive.
@agadmator's Chess Channel, I love the endgame, and have studied it for years. At 9:02, you mention gxf6 and of course black is lost, but what about Kxf6? This of course must be calculated, as it's VERY tricky! So, white goes KH4(g4 and WHITE would be on the verge of losing as he is in zugzwang), and then g6 by black, Kg4 by white, takes takes, and all of a sudden, black has the move e4!, because if white plays dxe4, then c4 and white is only barely in time to stop the pawn, while the black king is a very good defender of the two passed e and f pawns(but of course cannot take them). But after the black c-pawn is grabbed successfully, White is, again, winning. Just wanted to show you that gxf6 is NOT forced, and Kxf6 is defiantly, although losing, the trickier way to play as black! I think that gxf6 is just the automatic response, as it "fixes" blacks pawn structure. Anyway, thanks for reading, and I'd love a game in the future if that would be possible on Lichess. I'm @pipandchuk there too!
@@Therworldtube Yeah it looks like 3/8 but then they excluded all of the exhibition and casual stuff, odds games in the rest of the 462. It would be interesting to know Morphy's win % when taking into account all the simuls, blindfold, friendly and odds games he played.
For people wondering why at 5:41 , why you can't capture the rook wich deflects the queen then you capture the bishop , this is why.. Ok i found that it does not work as after all is exchanges, queen to d1 check (king moves to f2) then queen to c2 check picks up the bishop with a pawn
before watching your videos i liked chess but after watching your videos ive develop a crazy obsession for chess, i cant stop playing. everytime i watch your videos i learn stuff i didnt know and it makes me wanna play chess even more.
Really like the way you explain things , it's not just about the match but special insight on what a beginner must know , e.g. these pawn pushing in this game.
You still the best Just add more suspense to the videos, not just for the title but also for the intro. Specially when you analyze old games. Wish you all the best Antonio
You sir, Are the best at what you do, never change, always improve and continue to inspire teach and entertain us chess lovers. If you only knew how happy we subscribers are when you post a new video...... Thank you 🙏🏼
I'm completely good with showing Morphy's losses and especially when there are basic king and pawn end game principles to be learned from it. There are plenty of Morphy brilliances to see. Like you say, the saga wouldn't be a saga if it was just a one way street of Morphy victories. Plus, we get some insights of 19th century style and ideas.
Nope, black would actually get free pawn,, after white took the bishop, its gonna be a check by black queen and then pick pawn at C2 while getting the white bishop next
@@asteraxx2262 oh wow, never in my life I would of thought of that. Mabye I also should have checked with an engine. Anyways thanks for the enlightenment!
After hundreds of videos, I was finally able to perceive the meaning of the initial soundcheck at 0:35, probably due to the echo of the sound of the pawn! :)
The funny part is that there is actually a bar in a library that I know of. It's the main Boston public library. They renovated it at least a year ago. I was there once last year and noticed from afar a bunch of people in the middle of the day enjoying alcoholic drinks in the bar. They were all dressed like they were at the Royal Ball in London. It was obviously and unfortunately for upper-class or rich people, complete w/ a couple well-dressed hosts (in bow ties) manning the door. Not my type of place...Heck, bars in general aren't my type of place.
5:41 Why did morphy not go Rd8 capture before trading bishops? It would check, forcing the queen to capture and allow a free bishop capture afterwards? King could try to move to f7 or h7 , but Qg6 would be mate, so the queen would need to capture and move away from defending the bishop. Am I missing something?
Of course you should continue showing us those games you think are interesting. You can learn from a defeat as much as a win and those videos pain the full picture for us. How he won and also how he lost. A lot of us won't, for a reason or another, real the full history of Morphy or other players and so this is one of the few places that we can get the big picture without spending too much time.
4:18 but what if you reverse the order and first capture with the bishop? then after Nxe4 Nxe4 Qg4 black has Nf6 preventing f6 by white and kicking away the queen...
Someone enlighten me. At 5:41, it looks like Morphy could play Rxd8, forcing Lowenthal to recapture with the queen and winning the bishop. There’s something I’m missing right? Morphy surely wouldn’t have missed this
I'm impressed. There were a series of traps into which Lowenthal could've fallen, and he foresaw and avoided all of them. He played error-free chess while Morphy didn't, and that gave him the victory. I guess we underestimated him!
CowsAreFood after rxd8 qxd8, bxc5 black has qd1+ , followed by kf2 (only move) qxc2+ winning a pawn and winning back the bishop on the next move, giving black a winning game
TH-cam trolling me again with 360p. Give it a minute or two and hit that F5 :)
Sorry about that.
Ok
I can watch in 1080
agad, don't worry
Press f5 while I give you a couple of minutes
Still in 360p
Totally agree with the final comment, showing the not so great Morphy games from the saga also really makes us understand that no one is perfect and everyone loses sometimes. Nice video and loving the saga, thank you Antonio!
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Was going to say this, well put sir! Besides the satisfying aspect of seeing legends be human, it'd be quite boring to only see victories - this game for example had great tension.
Riad Said What lmao
@@riadsaid5234 All hail Christ! Lord of Jews!
I agree!
0:00 Hello everyone
0:02 15:42 The Good Stuff
0:21 Complicated yet simple/Simple yet complicated
0:30 Without further ado
0:35 6:29 Sorry about that
1:22 Never been reached again
1:39 8:36 8:55 9:50 10:23 12:49 13:06 Captures captures 4:38 (...cappers and captures!)
2:05 A lot of pressure
2:22 Double attack
2:40 Unless they're like Thomas Wilson Barnes
3:11 Star move
3:50 Really funny checkmate
4:36 Capture-fest
5:06 Okay to play f6
7:22 Completely lost
7:30 12:09 Give you a couple of seconds
7:45 12:18 Enjoy the show
10:40 Triangulation party
12:47 agadmator rap
13:13 It was in this position
13:37 Completely winning
13:58 14:57 15:31 So yeah
14:19 Complete snooze-fest
14:33 Friends at the bar and the library
15:06 Special message 15:21 Checkmate for life
15:43 Morphy saga
Ty for infoth-cam.com/video/Vsc1e3e7GsY/w-d-xo.html
Wait how do you actually find all of these?
That 12:47 agadmator rap is 🔥.
"Simple yet complicated" :)
**My friends at the bar/library**: Morphy was a total beast! He obliterated everyone!
**Me, the smartass**: Yeah but do you remember that game vs Löwenthal in 1858 when he made the wrong pawn push?
A good way to make a long wkward moment
And in this position, frens resigned at BATL
Waste of a comment
Agads confidence in the idea that we all frequent libraries regularily is cute.
I actually work in a library!
Its more of a disclaimer, "your friends at the library [wink,wink] and the bar"
The idea that I ever leave the house is cute
Lmao what about his idea that we all frequent bars
I recommend playing chess at cafes. I've met some cool people that way. Some cafes even have a chess board available for customers.
I told this to my friends at the bar and library. *It was a very high quality conversation* . Thank you agadmator.
That moment your oppenent offers a draw and after you decline you just lose the game...
been there, done that
I had one where the opponent offered a draw i declined and then offered a draw when he was winning and he accepted the draw.
Were you watching my last game last night?
A tale as old as time...
😂 you want to cry after.
It was a mouse slip by Morphy, it happens to the best of us.
mouse wasn't invented back then...
@@pokemonjynx1019 of course they were, alongside rats, pigeons, and other rodents.
TH-cam after refreshing to FullHD: Sorry about that.
This is beautiful 🙏
As someone who's been trying to get more into chess these days - I find the basic principles about the pawn and king endgames to be fascinating. I'm one of those players where when I reach the king and pawn endgame I just kind of push stuff and hope for the best lol. Gotta keep studying it seems. Thanks!
whenever morphy loses, agad should take away the morphy head from morphy cause he wouldn't deserve it
That's just brutal 😂😂
😂
"Sorry about that" remains one of life's greatest mysteries
not really, he just fixes the computers volume
He fixes the volume because the volume he uses for chess when playing is louder than for videos.
The rook joins the party, lol. That’s funny
Yeah. You can picture the rook entering the room and dancing around
@chessbrah
@@Justchillin145 @chessbrah
First time?
I wish Morphy have 2000 games to show. Just love him.
He has more than 2000+ but we are not able to find those games.
Pawn ending is really exciting, a lot of calculating moves not only with king but as you said pawn moves too are really important.
This was really helpful to me as I am learning end game
At 5:41 morphy didn’t take the rook because he loses a pawn at the end of the variation.Rxd8 Qxd8 Bxc5 Qd1 Kf2 Qxc2 Kf1 and Qxc5 winning back the bishop and up a pawn.
Thank you, this bugged me hard until you explained it!
hearing "Welcome back to the good stuff" after a long day is very refreshing tbh
Ah yes, *as of move seven this position hasn't been reached again* ...
See you in Chess960
As of move seven we have a completely old position.
Has never reached again
"Sorry about that"
~Agadmator 2020
Agadmator in every year...
“Sorry about that” ~Agadmator 1987-Future
From all the games I have seen, I believe that Morphy was actually quite imprecise in Endgames, simply because he didn't really get a lot of OTB practice. He generally played instantly and in endgames, that's sometimes quite costly.
Morphy didn’t have much experience playing endgames just because his opponents rarely survived that long
The endgame in general wasn't too heavily studied back then, since if you weren't sacrificing everything and smacking the other guy's king, were you really even playing chess? Still, Morphy's natural understanding of the game allowed him to play the endgame fairly well, this game notwithstanding. Game 3 of his 1857 Chess Congress match with James Thompson comes to mind: www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1336498
He played the endgame well but of all aspects of chess, the endgame is the one which most resembles a computer. The only old player who can really match up to modern computer assisted players is probably Capablanca.
Wow, a shout out from agadmator - thanks babe, looking forward to the merch present you got me from his store. Aggy, love your videos, been subscribed since about 100,000 subscribers and have loved watching you grow and grow and grow, keep it up dude.
Douglas B For a moment there I though you were calling Antonio “babe”
@@thegorn That's funny, I can see your take. I grant Agad has a certain masculine charm to him and that voice...but he's spoken for as am I so perhaps in another life. ;-)
Thanks for posting this game , it REALLY helps me !!!!
I am really happy to see your progress and evolution throughout the years. You are doing an excellent job and you deserve everything you have achieved. Keep up with the good stuff! :)
Some of the greatest games of all time are ones a non-titled player can appreciate and watch over and over, and yet find relatively little in there that they're able to actually take into their own games, because the ideas were so brilliant and so situational that the odds of being able to replicate the winning principle are slim. This, whilst decent, some might describe as forgettable. But it's very instructive.
Back to back upload. Finally a continuation to the morphy saga without break.
@agadmator's Chess Channel, I love the endgame, and have studied it for years. At 9:02, you mention gxf6 and of course black is lost, but what about Kxf6? This of course must be calculated, as it's VERY tricky! So, white goes KH4(g4 and WHITE would be on the verge of losing as he is in zugzwang), and then g6 by black, Kg4 by white, takes takes, and all of a sudden, black has the move e4!, because if white plays dxe4, then c4 and white is only barely in time to stop the pawn, while the black king is a very good defender of the two passed e and f pawns(but of course cannot take them). But after the black c-pawn is grabbed successfully, White is, again, winning. Just wanted to show you that gxf6 is NOT forced, and Kxf6 is defiantly, although losing, the trickier way to play as black! I think that gxf6 is just the automatic response, as it "fixes" blacks pawn structure.
Anyway, thanks for reading, and I'd love a game in the future if that would be possible on Lichess. I'm @pipandchuk there too!
Agadmator drops the library and bar bomb again.
I'm here for the high quality conversation!!!
According to ChessBase Morphy lost 28 games during his carrier
11 with White
17 with black
Including blindfold, odds and simul games
How much did he win?
@@Therworldtube Idk but Chessgames.com has his win percentage at 84% from all his professional games...
Yeah I just checked, he won 174 and lost 24 of his professional games, giving a win percentage of 84.9
@@BinaryRex18 Imagine contributing 3/8 of all Morphy's games
@@Therworldtube Yeah it looks like 3/8 but then they excluded all of the exhibition and casual stuff, odds games in the rest of the 462. It would be interesting to know Morphy's win % when taking into account all the simuls, blindfold, friendly and odds games he played.
For people wondering why at 5:41 , why you can't capture the rook wich deflects the queen then you capture the bishop , this is why..
Ok i found that it does not work as after all is exchanges, queen to d1 check (king moves to f2) then queen to c2 check picks up the bishop with a pawn
before watching your videos i liked chess but after watching your videos ive develop a crazy obsession for chess, i cant stop playing. everytime i watch your videos i learn stuff i didnt know and it makes me wanna play chess even more.
Really like the way you explain things , it's not just about the match but special insight on
what a beginner must know , e.g. these pawn pushing in this game.
You still the best
Just add more suspense to the videos, not just for the title but also for the intro. Specially when you analyze old games.
Wish you all the best Antonio
King and pawn end games are my favourite. Please keep streaming them. Thank you!!
Thank you for increasing my knowlege of endgames. I appreciate you! Have a great end of the week my guy!
You sir, Are the best at what you do, never change, always improve and continue to inspire teach and entertain us chess lovers. If you only knew how happy we subscribers are when you post a new video...... Thank you 🙏🏼
I found this very informative. King pawn end games are something I'm not very good at, and so I found this quite educational.
I love how you are handling the saga so far bro.
This is a great saga :)
Why didn't white play d3 takes d8 at 5:41? The queen must capture and you get a free bishop because it is now undefended.
excellent game. thank you for bringing this classic to life for us. i especially love these games when it comes down to 1 tempo.
That quote on top gives me hope!!!
watching games like these and knowing the history instantly makes you the boss of the library
you should award yourself the morphy head for spotting that line of conversation at 14:50
In a world gone mad I love this wonderful, soothing chess oasis. Thanks.
Philidor Defense: Boden Variation (C41)
1. e4 c5 2. d4 cd4 3. Nf3 Nc6
What?!
I'm completely good with showing Morphy's losses and especially when there are basic king and pawn end game principles to be learned from it.
There are plenty of Morphy brilliances to see. Like you say, the saga wouldn't be a saga if it was just a one way street of Morphy victories. Plus, we get some insights of 19th century style and ideas.
@5:41 can’t white exchange the rook to divert the queen & pick the undefended bishop🧐. Am I missing anything?
White-Rxd8+, Qxd8, Bxc5
" eh, sorry bout' dat" ... Knight to D2
Look at what Jose Capablanca says :- "You will have to lose hundreds of games to become a good player".
Morphy didn’t even lose 30 so... he didn’t become “Morphy Good”
Well... I've probably lost thousands, so I must be a superb player.
@@gmpillo604 yeah but Capablanca himself considered Morphy to be peerless. He was probably speaking for the rest of us mortals lol
Finally Agadmator admitted all of this is in fact just to impress the friends ATBATL.
Really instructive video, thanks. ;)
So at 5:43 if rook takes on d8 isn't that crushing because the queen would be forced to take and then the bishop on c5 hangs ?
Nope, black would actually get free pawn,, after white took the bishop, its gonna be a check by black queen and then pick pawn at C2 while getting the white bishop next
Please keep these coming!
I'm sure my friends at the bar and library will like such high quality conversation.
at 5:42 - why doesnt morphy just capture the rook as it comes with check and morphy ends up winning a bishop
Ok i found that it does not work as after all exchanges, queen to d1 check (king moves to f2) then queen to c2 check picks up the bishop with a pawn
@@asteraxx2262 oh wow, never in my life I would of thought of that. Mabye I also should have checked with an engine. Anyways thanks for the enlightenment!
5:45 Why cant white capture rook on D8 with check, queen recaptures and then capture bishop on C5?
I think ,
after e takes on c5 - black has Qd1x check.
one of the possibilities king to F2: Qd2X with check and after king moves grab that bishop on c5
nice tactic though😌
After Bxc5 Qd1+ Kf2 Qxc2+ Kf1 Qxc5
So much sarcastic title for the legend Morphy ... I always win and then showing game where he loses.
5:44
What if Rxd8? Wouldn’t it win the bishop?
I'm also confused😭 can someone explain if there is something that I miss😭
thank you for showing us this game!
After hundreds of videos, I was finally able to perceive the meaning of the initial soundcheck at 0:35, probably due to the echo of the sound of the pawn! :)
13:11 Even Medo can't believe that just happened.
Did you cover those other two losses for Morphy against a commitee?
Just loved this video
do ur thing **enjoys the show**
Very instructive end game!
Why at 5:20 do you move the room back. Why not sac the bishop and take the pawn at H6?
The funny part is that there is actually a bar in a library that I know of. It's the main Boston public library. They renovated it at least a year ago. I was there once last year and noticed from afar a bunch of people in the middle of the day enjoying alcoholic drinks in the bar. They were all dressed like they were at the Royal Ball in London. It was obviously and unfortunately for upper-class or rich people, complete w/ a couple well-dressed hosts (in bow ties) manning the door. Not my type of place...Heck, bars in general aren't my type of place.
When you are so early that the video is only available in 360p.
Nickname is definitely your own name.
Yeah, that's a real Nakamura just like I'm a real Paul Morphy.
‘We have a capture fest on the D5 square. Captures, captures. We have captures and captures”
5:41 Why did morphy not go Rd8 capture before trading bishops? It would check, forcing the queen to capture and allow a free bishop capture afterwards?
King could try to move to f7 or h7 , but Qg6 would be mate, so the queen would need to capture and move away from defending the bishop. Am I missing something?
I didn't see Morphy's A and B pawns in the thumbnail and thought Löwenthal was somehow up 2 pawns :)
4:04 beautiful checkmate I agree!
Amazing pawn ending. If I am playing against Morphy, I will trade my pieces and go for the ending ASAP. Barnes outplayed him in the ending too.
4:51 can you grab a rook on d8 with check and after queen recaptures you just grab a bishop?
Its on 5:41 not 4:51 *
>" They avoid grabbing the pawn.... unless they are i are like *Tomas Wilson Barnes...* "
Love it!
I'll definitely mention this game to my friends at the bar and the library ! especially the wrong pawn push
Strange to see Morphy blow the endgame twice in the span of ~15 moves
Yaa..i also enjoyed endgame lesson man..so yeah .thanx again for the video,keep it up ure the best!!
4:09 agadmator flexing his influence on the chess meta
Of course you should continue showing us those games you think are interesting.
You can learn from a defeat as much as a win and those videos pain the full picture for us.
How he won and also how he lost. A lot of us won't, for a reason or another, real the full history of Morphy or other players and so this is one of the few places that we can get the big picture without spending too much time.
Holy molly, the earliest i have been for a video, good day mr antonio
nice game! keep up the good work!
Evendo many grandmaster opened TH-cam channel... I always prefer this channel... The best👍👍👌👌
Phew! This shows the quality of end game!
4:18 but what if you reverse the order and first capture with the bishop? then after Nxe4 Nxe4 Qg4 black has Nf6 preventing f6 by white and kicking away the queen...
Great video agad 🔥🔥
Can anyone tell which software our agadmator using???
At 5:45, why didn't Morphy take the rook on D8 and force check, forcing the queen to take and then picking up the bishop afterward??????
“So what happens here if you capture the pawn? Well, you just get annihilated” 😂😂😂
He never said when the position never becomes reached again
agree with your comment on morphy saga, show everything
Someone enlighten me. At 5:41, it looks like Morphy could play Rxd8, forcing Lowenthal to recapture with the queen and winning the bishop. There’s something I’m missing right? Morphy surely wouldn’t have missed this
Actually, I really liked this game as i really enjoy the king&pawn endgame, thanks for the videos
I'm impressed. There were a series of traps into which Lowenthal could've fallen, and he foresaw and avoided all of them. He played error-free chess while Morphy didn't, and that gave him the victory. I guess we underestimated him!
@5:46 someone explain to me why not Rxd8 which check so black queen would have to capture qxd8 and the Bxc5 since the bishop is now undefended?
Oh I think I figured it out because If white played Bxc5 black would have qd1+ which will result in checkmate?
At 3:35 why couldn’t the h7 pawn go h5? Wouldn’t that be a good defense?
Barnes be like the Cookie Monster in the 19 Hundreds in Chess.
Theres a pice or a pawn?
Give it to me!
heyo, just a question.
at 5:46 doesn't Rxd8 win a bishop?
CowsAreFood after rxd8 qxd8, bxc5 black has qd1+ , followed by kf2 (only move) qxc2+ winning a pawn and winning back the bishop on the next move, giving black a winning game
@@rishdhoot2008 thanks man