@@curedbytheonomy Only played competitively for 2 years (barely in his twenties), never truly tested, played moves almost instantly - and considered chess "unworthy of serious pursuit". The extent of his genius, sadly, remains "a riddle wrapped up in an enigma" (like, literally ;)
[ But, in process of administering the coup de grace, Morphy’s feverish state told upon him, and he committed an oversight which lost him a knight, when within a move or two of winning. It was so stupid a mistake, that he immediately burst out laughing at himself. Harrwitz picked off the unfortunate knight with the utmost nonchalance, as though it were the result of his own combinations, and actually told me afterwards, “Oh, the game was a drawn one throughout.” ]
This whole Morphy saga would be perfect for a series (The King's Gambit, anyone?)... There's drama, mistakes, clash of cultures, it's tailor made for TV.
What a strategical masterpiece... the white pawn in d5 just blind the white light square bishop and makes any attack from the center impossible.. #goat games are so deep..loved it
Taking breaks, making Morphy play when in fever...makes Harritwz look like a Villain, which..coupled with the awesome comments by Agadmator gives a different look to the videos altogether...
Harrwitz was a money grubber. He had no care for honor or integrity, his passion was all about cash and clout. He was a good player, and a terrible person.
Actually i dont like agad talking sh1t about anyone who is morphy's apponent, Well harritwz is a legit and strong player who outplayed morphy in first 2 games. It wasnt luck or anything. Also in those times there was nothing called ELO rating, morphy was atleast 400 points above any player who he faced, so he could play fancy moves and sac pieces. But against harritwz he lost 2 games cuz he wasnt playing super serious. I dont like agad talking about him in a bad way. Its not like we know everything about a guy who lived in 1858
@@rokanza2293 but in those times everybody was a gentelman. How can we be sure he really was a cunning person ? Maybe you are right tho. Maybe its a fact
I will say it: THIS is a much better Morphy pic. In the other one he's such a dandy & Little Lord Fauntleroy. Even a still of the deep fake video you showed would be great.
Possibly he was covering up for Morphy's blunder. A guy like Harrwitz would want his opponent to do the same for him. But it is evidence that the moves were never recorded until Morphy wrote them from memory later because everyone would see the blunder from the record.
#suggestion You are doing a remarkable job analysing Morphy's games. In the internet archive there are many old books with his games. Please cover all of them. At least as much as possible. Heartfelt thanks to you Antonio
"For those of you who were able to do it, congratulations on not playing Rook to f1 because this is actually what Morphy played" - Agad roasting the Morphy head
Harrwitz would be the classic online player now. Absolutely infuriating when you fail to grease the brains of such players, then they mouth off after overkill means you blunder away a winning advantage.
I like this perspective of the board where morphy is playing black and it isnt flipped so we can see how it must have been facing morphy. Makes it more intimidating to see what it is like and what they saw for his opponents to get crushed.
The fact that he laughed at his own blunder just makes him a humble player. Not only a genious but also humble, what a gentleman! cannot say the same about Harrwitz...
More Morphy Saga please! Dying to know what happens with Staunton, and of course what else our old pesky friend Löwenthal has to say about Morphy's play! 😆
@@anonymousstout4759 what? No. It wasn’t played anymore because of this game. Why repeat a losing position. That’s how competitive chess works. Or why do you think nobody repeated the position before there were engines?
@@Sur3sh00t I doubt that too, if the engine would have said this was a good position, it would have been played a lot more often, despite this game. Professional chess players don't view things so subjective as you think, they look at statistics. A lost position might have been won if the player played better moves.
God I can’t believe morphy. Imagine what he would’ve been like if he pursued chess seriously, practiced every day, thought about every move, played for years. The chosen one to beat the engines lived and died before engines were ever conceived. The irony of it all is incredible
Blind spots and misses like that, no matter what caused them, do happen and to the best of us! All one can do is laugh, as that's better than crying! Lol, gg, thx.
I see it as a part of the mindgame. You focus your opponents attention to one side of the board until seamlessly moving a piece on the other side trying to open a pin or something.
started watching these from the beginning a wee while ago. Watched this and thought, 'Hang on, surely that's not the end? He hasn't played Staunton yet, or even finished off Harrwitz!' - then realised that I'm now up to date with where we're up to. Really wondering what happens next...
Agadmator most likely is right in stating that Morphy had that lapse which all chess players have fallen into at one time or another in a winning position. Harrwitz was right that the game was equal until he played the inaccurate 22 Be2?! while holding a small initiative.
Harrwitz; ~Makes deals about taking breaks, then breaks his word ~agrees to no more breaks, then takes several ~refuses to play until he hear Morphy is sick. Then demands to play ~demands that the game location be moved to a room with no spectators so that no one can see what a piece of crap he is ~ is either too stupid or two dishonest to call a completely lost position what it is. Instead insists that the game was equal the entire time. CONCLUSION: I know Mr. Barnes. I’ve seen Mr. Barnes play chess. YOU sir, are NO Mr. Barnes.
He pulled a Naroditsky... He felt sorry for him and gave Harrwitz a knight out of the kindness of his heart. Then Drew the game after having a completely winning game.
I saw Rf1+ Kxg3 Qe5+ and thought it was a draw at least and left it at that as the most fun move. Maybe Morphy thought Qe5+ lead to mate, but only saw that it didn't after Kxg3 was played.
Never thought one day i see a winning move that morphy didn't play and missed(ofcourse he saw it!)then again i didnt saw what he had in mind...another beauty which went to waist...
Reassuring that even Morphy can make mistakes, although he might have to be ill to do that ... (His opponent is coming across as rather a devious slime ball !!). But great game and excellent analysis, thanks.
Two squares for knight were matching for him made in heaven - I was laughing a little bit at this part and even more funny was knight never got to these squares xD
he was too young on the old one, it didn't resemble him properly as the person playing in Europe, this one's is far more accurate, actually it's the best there is as adult Morphy.
I botched a winning game against one of the bots on chess.com just before I came to watch this game, but was able to draw by repetition shortly after my screw up. Nice coincidence that this game was along the same lines and that a great, great player such as Morphy had to do the same thing :) .
Ah, I paused the video and I came up with the same move. I don't think it was because he missed his knight was hanging. My thinking process was: - Okay, Rf1+. White has to take the knight if he doesn't want to lose the queen. - Then Qe4+ and white plays Kh4. - Rh1+ and white plays Kg5. - Kg7 and white cannot prevent mate after Qf6. Stupid me didn't realise I would just lose my rook after Rh1 😂
I was wondering...with all the variations on chess setups, like starting without a particular piece, has anybody ever tried playing the opposite side of the board?! Just thinking about it bends my brain a bit...
When you mention the Rf8 blunder and begin to speculate on if Morphy had a cold. It was a hard fought game and Morphy was probably seeing alot of those lines you showed after Rxd1 but just couldn't asses that he was completely winning. I presume his gut told him those lines where winning but he couldn't calculate a win with or without Ne4+. That is an overwhelming position to be in. He would have had to calculate dozens of moves in several variations extremely accurately and although most of his evaluations where correct he couldn't find anything definitive. This caused him to play Rf8 hanging the knight. That's chess it's extremely difficult. Keep in mind they would have been hours into game 6
Atleast he said the position was equal. Lowental would have already claimed his victory there
Lol...true
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When you have urgent business to attend to but then you see that Antonio is continuing the good stuff
I'm pretty sure you can watch youtube videos during a bathroom break.
@@Fandartmartiaux what do you think became the coincidental matter of urgent business?
at least he apologizes for messing up your day
@@bilyonarelifestile2226 Like moths to a porch lamp, we are drawn to the good stuff
Harrwitz: at least nobody will know :)
Agadmator: HELLO EVERYONE
😂 I love this
lol
Over a century later...
Well he DED now so he literally cant even care
@@KillerInstinct1 Thanks cap'n obvious
Harrwitz later told his backers "I don't care, guys. I literally don't care."
He really didnt care
What is there to even care about...🤷🏻♂️
"the game was equal, I don't care! You want to repeat moves to draw on a losing position? Fine! I don't care!"
Smells like hikaru acid
@@gauravjha8938 its a Hikaru reference
Harrwitz takes more breaks than me when studying for my exams
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Hahahaha
I come for the chess, but I stay for the comments. Stay wholesome Agad family
Best youtube community hands down ❤️
@@notaleun4012 ......but, I am sorry to ADD, Thumbs UP also !!! Lol !
......please replace "" sorry. "" and , read as "" Happy. "" ! Lol, again !
Morphy was so ahead of his time and his opponents that his photo went to full color ;-)
13:14 "It's very hard to stay sharp when you are so winning"
Translation: It's hard to be a gangsta
So true, tho - it's hard to see the road ahead when you're looking in the rear view mirror
@@rosshewage6893 word.
But damn it feel good
Paul Morphy suffering from sucess
Harrwitz is the kinda of guy that types EZ after a close 13-12 win.
"Not even close!"
“Oh, it doesn’t take much trouble to beat this fellow!”
I live for the Morphy saga. Any time he doesn’t completely win, it’s a dagger to my heart 😂
Watching excellence is like a drug. And we need that Morphy fix.
Even when I know he's gonna win, I'm on the edge of my seat... always worried for the flighty li'l guy, til he bares his T-Rex teeth
@@rosshewage6893 Even though I know he’s like the greatest player of all time, I still don’t expect him to be the greatest player of all time.
@@curedbytheonomy Only played competitively for 2 years (barely in his twenties), never truly tested, played moves almost instantly - and considered chess "unworthy of serious pursuit". The extent of his genius, sadly, remains "a riddle wrapped up in an enigma" (like, literally ;)
Same here
[ But, in process of administering the coup de grace, Morphy’s feverish state told upon him, and he committed an oversight which lost him a knight, when within a move or two of winning. It was so stupid a mistake, that he immediately burst out laughing at himself. Harrwitz picked off the unfortunate knight with the utmost nonchalance, as though it were the result of his own combinations, and actually told me afterwards, “Oh, the game was a drawn one throughout.” ]
Who wrote that?
@@FirstNameLastName-tx6td I think it was Morphy’s secretary, Frederick Edge, it is in the Lawson book
And it was in this position, the good stuff continued.
Morphy's move was the most brilliant move i've ever guessed
Amazing Morphy never ceases to amaze......
"White only has waiting moves.." could also have been the title of this game.
"this is a very nice bishop but as long as this knight is on d5 this is not a very nice bishop" -agadmator
This whole Morphy saga would be perfect for a series (The King's Gambit, anyone?)... There's drama, mistakes, clash of cultures, it's tailor made for TV.
If they actually showed the entire moves of each game with comments on them, unlike in the Queen's Gambit which was only style but no content.
Love the new painting for Morphys picture
What a strategical masterpiece... the white pawn in d5 just blind the white light square bishop and makes any attack from the center impossible.. #goat games are so deep..loved it
One "Hello everyone!" a day keeps depression away.
one levent a day keeps chess alive
(Doctor’s prescription) “Watch one Agadmator video and call me in the morning”
He blundered a full piece and still managed to draw. What a beast
I like how agadmator keeps warning us about capturing the d5 pawn
I’d have captured that pawn at least 3 times.
Yet in the comments people still ask about it...
"Al mejor mono se le cae el zapote" goes a famous Nicaraguan saying. "Even the best monkey will drop the zapote" (a fruit.)
Taking breaks, making Morphy play when in fever...makes Harritwz look like a Villain, which..coupled with the awesome comments by Agadmator gives a different look to the videos altogether...
I don't think Morphy minded much playing with a fever, it's not like this is the only time he'd done so
Harrwitz was a money grubber. He had no care for honor or integrity, his passion was all about cash and clout. He was a good player, and a terrible person.
Actually i dont like agad talking sh1t about anyone who is morphy's apponent,
Well harritwz is a legit and strong player who outplayed morphy in first 2 games. It wasnt luck or anything.
Also in those times there was nothing called ELO rating, morphy was atleast 400 points above any player who he faced, so he could play fancy moves and sac pieces.
But against harritwz he lost 2 games cuz he wasnt playing super serious.
I dont like agad talking about him in a bad way. Its not like we know everything about a guy who lived in 1858
@@P.sherman45 I don't think you understand the difference between speaking facts and 'talking shit'.
@@rokanza2293 but in those times everybody was a gentelman.
How can we be sure he really was a cunning person ?
Maybe you are right tho. Maybe its a fact
And here I thought that rook check was pretty sick.
Morphy laughing at hanging a piece while trying to go for checkmate is a big mood
Morphy saying - Harwitz won't win a single game was the most gangster move.
“An interesting suicidal leap, insane, but entertaining.”
- One of Chess.com’s rare snarky comments upon blundering a piece in lessons.
I watch each game hoping for more "The engine disagrees with Morphy but Morphy doesn't care. Morphy plays what Morphy wants."
Harrwitz all the time during the match, "I am gonna lose."
Also Harrwitz, " Huh, The game was pretty equal."
At least he got to say that...
Or else he would have said he is not well yet again..🤷🏻♂️
6:25 "I know lot of you were thinking about this"-Agadmator the Psychic
Didn't expect to find you here
And now we have the most dangerous Morphy! The Morphy who laughs!
I will say it: THIS is a much better Morphy pic. In the other one he's such a dandy & Little Lord Fauntleroy. Even a still of the deep fake video you showed would be great.
As someone once said, "Morphy had a weakness in closed games, such as the Dutch Defense" (think it was Fischer but not sure).
This saga is so nice it even has sub-sagas now, like this "match against harrwitz and blindfold simultaneous exhibition"-saga. Thats just great
8:14
Morphy literally doesn't care about his rook, he literally doesn't care!
Possibly he was covering up for Morphy's blunder. A guy like Harrwitz would want his opponent to do the same for him. But it is evidence that the moves were never recorded until Morphy wrote them from memory later because everyone would see the blunder from the record.
Ah yes the classic Morphy mouse slip
He was lagging
Moral of the game: Morphy was a human being.
#suggestion
You are doing a remarkable job analysing Morphy's games. In the internet archive there are many old books with his games. Please cover all of them. At least as much as possible. Heartfelt thanks to you Antonio
I feel delighted that I thought of the same move that Murphy did. Even though he laughed at it later on.😂
Another Morphy game another good time
Agad finally growing tired with our idiocy, "I have to repeat this again", "I cannot stress this enough"
I appreciate the history lessons very much !
Me, blundering a winning game: rages and vows revenge
Morphy: laughs and forces a draw
"For those of you who were able to do it, congratulations on not playing Rook to f1 because this is actually what Morphy played" - Agad roasting the Morphy head
1:48 - Harphy - the fusion of Harrwitz and Morphy
lol
Harrwitz is the kind of guy that records fights in portrait mode
Harrwitz would be the classic online player now. Absolutely infuriating when you fail to grease the brains of such players, then they mouth off after overkill means you blunder away a winning advantage.
Thank you for making my Saturday better. I definitely needed it!
Me waiting whole day for this game.
Agadmator came at 12:30 a.m. : Hello everyone 😭😭
Me : Hold my sleep.😔
I like this perspective of the board where morphy is playing black and it isnt flipped so we can see how it must have been facing morphy. Makes it more intimidating to see what it is like and what they saw for his opponents to get crushed.
Much love Agadmator!! From me and mines in nigeria,👍👍👍
The fact that he laughed at his own blunder just makes him a humble player. Not only a genious but also humble, what a gentleman! cannot say the same about Harrwitz...
)Harrwitz(
Harrwitz seems like he would be pretty fun in parties🤡
More Morphy Saga please! Dying to know what happens with Staunton, and of course what else our old pesky friend Löwenthal has to say about Morphy's play! 😆
A position never being reached again ever since 1858 and on only the 8th move in the Dutch Defense, is simply mind-blowing.
Engine didn't prefer nor consider this line as a good variant. That's why no one's play this line nowadays
@@anonymousstout4759 what? No. It wasn’t played anymore because of this game. Why repeat a losing position. That’s how competitive chess works. Or why do you think nobody repeated the position before there were engines?
there's nothing wrong with Black's position after move 8, nor with the Dutch Defense
@@Sur3sh00t I second that.
@@Sur3sh00t I doubt that too, if the engine would have said this was a good position, it would have been played a lot more often, despite this game. Professional chess players don't view things so subjective as you think, they look at statistics. A lost position might have been won if the player played better moves.
Me: Ahh. I see it. Rook to F1
Agadmator: Congratulations for not playing Rook to F1 which is what Morphy did.
I looked at the N and wondered "is Morphy copying my style?"
For once I found the exact continuation as Morphy but we both end up missing the win
Capturing the White Rook instead by the Black Rook is a check mate in just 2 moves by Morphy!
God I can’t believe morphy. Imagine what he would’ve been like if he pursued chess seriously, practiced every day, thought about every move, played for years. The chosen one to beat the engines lived and died before engines were ever conceived. The irony of it all is incredible
Morphy was truly the most gifted chess player who ever lived
man, it’s gonna be so crushing when The Good Stuff™ sage ends after Antonio eventually runs out of morphy games
It's nice to see a serious player from that era playing D4. It seems like every match from back then begins with E4.
Damn I saw the knight was hanging! He must have been really sick to miss that.
I laugh at myself all the time during games. And then my opponent tells me, "sorry about dat."
Tonight I experienced my friend looking at a chess clock and asking what time it is in a lost position 😂😂
Harrwitz was choked up in this game even after playing good moves . I could literally feel Morphy strangulating him ..🤷🏻♂️
4:19 agadmator -this is a good bishop . . me - not capturing knight . . played a silly move and got my king and queen forked!!!!
Yes yes yes the Morphy saga continues
Blind spots and misses like that, no matter what caused them, do happen and to the best of us! All one can do is laugh, as that's better than crying! Lol, gg, thx.
I see it as a part of the mindgame. You focus your opponents attention to one side of the board until seamlessly moving a piece on the other side trying to open a pin or something.
@@MDMAx Yeah distracted by that and not having full-board awareness, at all times! Thanks.
I am glad I found Morphy’s fevered move though
I am more impressed with Morphy's brilliant draw after hanging a piece.
Exactly! Morphy blunders terribly like a 1200 would, and still draws, that's kind of amazing :-)
The pride and sorrow.....of memes.
Bruh, I’m so happy first time ever that I actually predicted what move wins the game. As a novice I’m pretty happy. Greetings from Serbia btw.
started watching these from the beginning a wee while ago. Watched this and thought, 'Hang on, surely that's not the end? He hasn't played Staunton yet, or even finished off Harrwitz!' - then realised that I'm now up to date with where we're up to. Really wondering what happens next...
Chess is so cool that we're still analyzing matches from the 1800s
I haven't watched it yet but I'm so fuckin hype for this one. If Morphy loses I'm gonna launch my rabbit out the window
Agadmator most likely is right in stating that Morphy had that lapse which all chess players have fallen into at one time or another in a winning position. Harrwitz was right that the game was equal until he played the inaccurate 22 Be2?! while holding a small initiative.
Harrwitz;
~Makes deals about taking breaks, then breaks his word
~agrees to no more breaks, then takes several
~refuses to play until he hear Morphy is sick. Then demands to play
~demands that the game location be moved to a room with no spectators so that no one can see what a piece of crap he is
~ is either too stupid or two dishonest to call a completely lost position what it is. Instead insists that the game was equal the entire time.
CONCLUSION: I know Mr. Barnes. I’ve seen Mr. Barnes play chess. YOU sir, are NO Mr. Barnes.
This is me in a nutshell. I decided to play R-f1+, congratulating myself on playing what Morphy played, & threw away a winning position.
8:27 it is not checkmate because you can first give up the rook and block the check with the queen
He pulled a Naroditsky...
He felt sorry for him and gave Harrwitz a knight out of the kindness of his heart.
Then Drew the game after having a completely winning game.
This is it. The good stuff
Damn incredible game by Morphy throughout just that one oversight cost him.
Agad tricked us into thinking there is some sort of move that ends the game on the spot, what a troll :)
I saw Rf1+ Kxg3 Qe5+ and thought it was a draw at least and left it at that as the most fun move. Maybe Morphy thought Qe5+ lead to mate, but only saw that it didn't after Kxg3 was played.
only if the knight was protected the combination would be a beautiful combination.but alas !!
Never thought one day i see a winning move that morphy didn't play and missed(ofcourse he saw it!)then again i didnt saw what he had in mind...another beauty which went to waist...
Reassuring that even Morphy can make mistakes, although he might have to be ill to do that ... (His opponent is coming across as rather a devious slime ball !!).
But great game and excellent analysis, thanks.
Two squares for knight were matching for him made in heaven - I was laughing a little bit at this part and even more funny was knight never got to these squares xD
Bring the old black and white pic of morphy back please, we got used to that pic
he was too young on the old one, it didn't resemble him properly as the person playing in Europe, this one's is far more accurate, actually it's the best there is as adult Morphy.
I botched a winning game against one of the bots on chess.com just before I came to watch this game, but was able to draw by repetition shortly after my screw up. Nice coincidence that this game was along the same lines and that a great, great player such as Morphy had to do the same thing :) .
It doesn’t matter if Harrwitz said it’s equal when he keeps losing.
Always remember the game never starts at the beginning of the video
I can gladly say that I am doing the same moves as morphy
Ah, I paused the video and I came up with the same move. I don't think it was because he missed his knight was hanging.
My thinking process was:
- Okay, Rf1+. White has to take the knight if he doesn't want to lose the queen.
- Then Qe4+ and white plays Kh4.
- Rh1+ and white plays Kg5.
- Kg7 and white cannot prevent mate after Qf6.
Stupid me didn't realise I would just lose my rook after Rh1 😂
I was wondering...with all the variations on chess setups, like starting without a particular piece, has anybody ever tried playing the opposite side of the board?! Just thinking about it bends my brain a bit...
When you mention the Rf8 blunder and begin to speculate on if Morphy had a cold.
It was a hard fought game and Morphy was probably seeing alot of those lines you showed after Rxd1 but just couldn't asses that he was completely winning. I presume his gut told him those lines where winning but he couldn't calculate a win with or without Ne4+. That is an overwhelming position to be in. He would have had to calculate dozens of moves in several variations extremely accurately and although most of his evaluations where correct he couldn't find anything definitive. This caused him to play Rf8 hanging the knight. That's chess it's extremely difficult. Keep in mind they would have been hours into game 6
I got it wrong, but knowing morphy played it makes me feel a lot better
when i talk to girls: 1:14