I moved to New Orleans in 2009 and went to work in a random restaurant in the French Quarter, then went to look for Paul Morphy’s house, only to find that it was the restaurant I had just gotten employed in. Long story short I was lucky and able to work in the old Morphy house in New Orleans for 3 months!
Morphy is a perfect legend. A gentleman, a prodigy, a true genius, misunderstood by his contemporaries, a troubled soul and ultimately a tragic figure. You couldn't write a better script.
He had two faults though he didn't accept any prize money which is being rude and insulting to the organisers of any tournament I know he was rich but sportsmanspirit demands you accept with humility any award offered to you and he wouldn't read any books on chess theory bcoz he was better than any one when it came to chess which he probably was and imho still is true even today after all the hard work of the theoreticians if he dismisses them it hurts and if he were alive today I'm sure he wouldn't touch an engine too proud so to speak just imagine the amount of creativity hard work and money over a chess engine just imagine this genius comes along and says off with stockfish and I'm sure morphy would do it.so on these two scores Morphy was not gentlemanly
@@anonymousstout4759 thks for the reply. I honestly don't know. But to tell you the truth I'm a great fan of batman series and I've watched most of them.
@@giriiyer3968 cool man but I'm not a really DC fans but if you continue your journey through this #morphysaga series you'll see how bad ass Morphy is, dude even gave his opponent's wife the prize money for a birth support, gift or something. Travel across Europe to beat the crap of everyone's ass. In other word his journey are truly romanticism story in itself and then finally living his idle life as a lawyer after became the best chess player in the world. Edit I know not receiving the money is considered rude but back in the day I think money isn't the god of the world yet.
The frequently applied comparison of Fischer and Morphy is as tempting as it is wrong. Read David Lawson's book on Paul Morphy and learn that Morphy had abundant interests and talents beside playing chess, i.e. opera, music, legislature, languages and much more. A lifelong buddy, Charles Maurian stated, "Paul actually never developed a passion for chess", and did not play during his college years - as rare as this seems regarding his caïssa skills. That's quite the contrary to Fischer, whose life was playing chess. Morphy had a longing for sophisticated culture providing the basis for an elevated humanity (expressed in his acceptance speech in NYC 1857)- for him chess was just one of those things... Also it must be stated that the inflictions of Civil War, the death of his father, the vow to his family never to play chess professionally, and last not least the introduction to perfidy by some of his chess opponents led to his withdrawal from the flimsy 64 squares.
> Plays his moves instantly. > Gets "depressed" because he lost a match against literally the next best player of the tournament. > Doesn't accept cash prizes. Just Paul Morphy things! Whatta legend.
Morphy crushed the best players of his day and if they weren’t that strong, it makes it even more amazing that Morphy was so strong, which he did on his own with almost no study. And oh yeah he retired from the game by age 25!
00:00 hello everyone 1:08 as a move, completly new game 1:32 feel free to pause the video 1:42 those who were able to do it, congratulations 1:49 those of you who just wanna enjoy the show 8:21 it was in this position where was sorry bout that?
First American Chess Congress: Paul Morphy Homecoming Now he’s going to Europe: Paul Morphy Far From Home Just your friendly neighborhood Chess prodigy taking on all comers
@@MrDannyg77 Morphy is unknown in the US outside of people who love chess. Fischer is known mostly through the movie "The Pawn Sacrifice" about him and from his antics after he won the World Championship in 1972.
He didn't sink into obscurity. That's highly exaggerated and over blown. His changes later in life had MUCH more to do with the effects of the Civil war on him and his family than chess.
@Mr ML a 2100 ranked player implies that you are an international master and there are only 2099 players stronger than you. If your elo is 2100 then you are 2100 rated not ranked.
Hello Agadmator, thank you very much for this series, I'm honestly loving it so much. What makes it really awesome is not only the chess, but also all the details you provide about Morphy and his life, aswell as all the side stories and what people said about Morphy. This truly makes this like Chess along with story time. Thank you!
Your argument about rising to the level that your competitors require of you applies to every situation in life and to every generation in history. Wise words my friend, wise words.
Hello Agadmator. I usually dont comment on youtube videos but I have to say I watched your videos gor about 3 years now and you really upload some amazing games!! I love your game analysis and your passion. You inspired me to start my own chess channel and I just want to say thank you. And thanks for the video because Paul Morphy was one of my favorite chess player since I was 12 years old.
Antonio stick to what you really do well. Love your channel, it's better than TV. Well actually your are ON my tv, daily. The story telling telling in the saga's is very addictive for me, love the old foto's and details. Even if I know most of the Morphy history it's so entertaining to see it reported almost as if it was happening live. Keep it up, there is a NEED for this stuff!
I just love this saga. The chess is quite interesting and fun, but when you add in the stories and reflections from Agad, well, it all becomes a magnificent brew. Bravo!
McDonald's does more than just make burgers 🍔 and fries 🍟. McDonald's also gave us a lovely description of Paul Charles Morphy. Seriously though that was a lovely quote you read for us. So interesting to see how highly he was regarded by his peers with regard to manners and style as well as sheer chess brilliance. It's certainly the case that Morphy was "as good as he needed to be" to win in his era. Great points.
And talent is talent regardless of the generation. Bring Morphy into the present and let him get up to speed and it is likely he would be a world champion.
$300 in 1857 is more like $26,000 today. You can't rely on inflation calculators because annual inflation figures are always understated. Use the price of gold (then versus now) as your conversion tool, and you will get a more accurate measurement of the value of $300 in 1857. There's a big difference in purchasing power between $9000 and $26000 today, which illustrates how inflation figures are always deliberately understated.
He was truly a genius because he was obviously the best, but for some reason he didn't care to improve theory for the future or teach others. He looked at the game as a hobby. If he had dedicated his life to chess I predict computers would have beaten humans only two years later than they did. It's just a game anyway, so I don't fault him for his perspective.
You have to do the calculation in terms of gold because that's what dollars were defined to in the mid 1800's, all the way up until 1913 as a matter of fact. Gold was $20 per ounce back then making it 15 ounces of gold that he won, which in today's price of gold is $24,000. (Gold is at $1600 per ounce)
Love this historical stuff. Thanks agadmator. As always. I would add these contests before chess engines are more to be admired. I certainly respect Magnus but he has had a tremendous learning tool in chess engines not available to even Fischer,
Morphy's quick C5 idea @ 06:27 is a glimpse into future Super GM chess minds (ala Capablanca, Tal, Fischer, Kasparov, Carlsen, etc.) but it reveals his artistry! Antonio is correct that chess in Europe was (and probably still is) played at the highest level in the world but we'll soon see that Morphy was up to the challenge and that Howard Staunton avoids playing a match against him. Steinitz comments were gracious after realizing that Morphy's moves are prompt vs most his opponents. *No human is devoid of error.*
Feel free to post as many videos in a day you so please, Agad. I speak for myself but I also bear the weight of promulgating on behalf of all your fans and followers that if you were to post more, we would gladly consume more. With much alacrity do I type this comment and therefore ask that you acquiesce my entreaty. Blessings unto you and your humble abode in times such as these.
After watching Antonio from the beginning, my chess has improved enormously. I now make a Tal/Morphy move by stochastically sacrificing a piece at random, so far I have bee losing a lot of games, so now I need to work out what moves to play after the random sacrifice.
Between Morphy not being taxed by weak opponents AND being forced to lay them 10:1 time odds, it's clear that Morphy's actual pure intellect and genius for the game far outstrips the results he put out that, as our host says, "was good enough to win". When push came to shove, he found that Q:f3 combination that pushes our modern super-human engines to their limit.
It’s cool how these games really demonstrate the need for clocks to further differentiate players’ strength. My gf loves to say that she’s just as good at scrabble as me...the games are close. But I play my moves in 10 seconds or less. She takes 15-30 minutes per move lol.
If I become multi millionaire I'd give u prize for making chess reachable to common men/women with lucid explanation. Great work. I hope i give you one day.
My first house was built in 1860. The initial purchase price was $250 dollars. So I wonder if the first place price was actually enough to buy a house, and it is not just as we would think of as $9000.
Agadmator - when will we hear you play that guitarr on display in the corner of your room!? Perhaps you could accompany next Morphy game with some Kroatian guitarr hymn... 👍
Antonio consider placing your guitar facing the wall. i.e. reverse the current position. Otherwise over time your guitar will develop a large gap between the strings and the fret board. Just a suggestion.
Maybe Agad will talk about this, but it is crazy to me to think about the fact that in traveling to Europe to play chess, Morphy would've gone via a BOAT powered by SAILS.
Paulsen was not at all bad in this series he was on a par with Morphy giving him move for move only Morphy outcalculated him by a couple of moves that's all I think no one is giving him the credit he genuinely deserves this was an epic series no doubt I'm watching the whole thing again
Wow! can't wait for the morphy saga now the epic journey begins can't wait to get to get a window seat with Morphy on this journey and get a ringside view by the way I miss the 173 year-old Morphy no comments from him today where are you
Curiously, $300 was the amount of money that you could pay to have someone else be drafted in your place for the Civil War. So in actuality, $300 was worth everything!
in 1857 civil war was not yet lurking at the corner. Let stand a $300 fee to non-draft existed. Paul Morphy had contacts to some General who stated, after discussing Pauls opinion about legislative and philosophical views on war, that "Morphy was not useful either on the battlefield or behind it".
@@erforderlich5274 Fun fact, John Quincy Adams wrote in his diary during the Monroe Administration that a Civil War was inevitable. So yes, Civil War was definitely on everyone's mind in 1857. But it is true, there was no draft in 1857, but I was just referencing the value of the money.
@@josephdestaubin7426 Fun Fact: The mind of John Quincy Adams is not everyone's mind. Just don't know for what reason civil war was mentioned in the first place. btw The Morphy family was rich and honoured by northern lawmakers and administers but nevertheless fostering definitive Southern politic ideas. Paul Charles' brother went to war, he didn't. 300$ was approximitely a solid silver service plate engraved, well made and priced NewYorkian. Such was given to Morphy after the tournament. So it was around worth 3000 or more todays dollar back then.
Agadmator’s comparison of Magnus Carlsen needing to be better than his competition to win, as Paul Morphy needed to be better than his competition to win is true. Computer chess programs has raised the playing skills of everyone today. But it does not and should not take away the genius of past grand masters.
What does it mean to say, "as of move x this position was never moved again?" That the position was never again recorded in tournament play? Thanks, this channel has reinvigorated by interest in chess after 30 years not playing, it is wonderful.
@@12jswilson - Thanks, wow nice. I guess the logical question is, Is that a standard/universal database? Or are there various databases for sanctioning bodies etc?
If the opponent takes so much time, you can use this time for your own calculations as well. So it does not surprise, that Morphy needed not much time on his own moves, when he had the time to assess the situation during the 30 minutes Paulsen took for his move. I also usually need less of my own time when playing against someone who takes very much time.
It should also be remembered that at that time no one could just put a position in a chess engine and learn that way. Also, people didn't have as many books and examples of games to learn from. Finally, many of these people were quite the amateurs when compared to today's top Grandmasters and I mean that in a good way - they didn't memorise many games and most players didn't have the game as their careers. You can see from the prize money in the US championship it is hardly something that allows one to make a living unless you are the very best. So all being said, Morphy was amazing
I'm watching it again Morphy is not only quick on his feet but he is a very quick to play his moves trigger happy thank god he was not a cowboy but I believe this quick moves got him in trouble in many games as many times he made wrong moves impulsively even if it was not his intention he would have been fantastic in blitz and also bullet
Brendan Dennis I’m not sure of his set up or microphone, but it’s like a OBS audio loop. You hear the chess piece being placed twice; like an echo - but the same sound repeated instantly after the first, you can produce an example of this by tapping your fingers on the table
I moved to New Orleans in 2009 and went to work in a random restaurant in the French Quarter, then went to look for Paul Morphy’s house, only to find that it was the restaurant I had just gotten employed in. Long story short I was lucky and able to work in the old Morphy house in New Orleans for 3 months!
The name of the restaurant?
Name of restaurant?
@@jx14aby Checkers?
Brennan’s on Royal Street
Interesting looking restaurant and street. I see it's temporarily closed
This Paul Charles Morphy guy must be pretty good. He keeps getting the Morphy head in every video...
That's a good one
😂😂👍
LOL!! :)
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Morphy: Play time's over
Paulson: Well in that case let's continue our game tomorrow.
This reply was given by slowpoke Paulsen the next day after thinking hard the whole night
sanidhya pratap singh In that era, two days was considered a blitz game.
And it was in this game that agadmator introduced the word nifty
Please add the timecode - I missed that!
Lol
haha the two times use of this word immediately striked me, too
Morphy is a perfect legend. A gentleman, a prodigy, a true genius, misunderstood by his contemporaries, a troubled soul and ultimately a tragic figure. You couldn't write a better script.
He had two faults though he didn't accept any prize money which is being rude and insulting to the organisers of any tournament I know he was rich but sportsmanspirit demands you accept with humility any award offered to you and he wouldn't read any books on chess theory bcoz he was better than any one when it came to chess which he probably was and imho still is true even today after all the hard work of the theoreticians if he dismisses them it hurts and if he were alive today I'm sure he wouldn't touch an engine too proud so to speak just imagine the amount of creativity hard work and money over a chess engine just imagine this genius comes along and says off with stockfish and I'm sure morphy would do it.so on these two scores Morphy was not gentlemanly
Giri Iyer That first one doesn’t seem like a fault to me.
@@giriiyer3968 isn't that just make Morphy the Bruce Wayne of chess then? I mean dude's kick ass
@@anonymousstout4759 thks for the reply. I honestly don't know. But to tell you the truth I'm a great fan of batman series and I've watched most of them.
@@giriiyer3968 cool man but I'm not a really DC fans but if you continue your journey through this #morphysaga series you'll see how bad ass Morphy is, dude even gave his opponent's wife the prize money for a birth support, gift or something. Travel across Europe to beat the crap of everyone's ass. In other word his journey are truly romanticism story in itself and then finally living his idle life as a lawyer after became the best chess player in the world. Edit I know not receiving the money is considered rude but back in the day I think money isn't the god of the world yet.
The frequently applied comparison of Fischer and Morphy is as tempting as it is wrong.
Read David Lawson's book on Paul Morphy and learn that Morphy had abundant interests and talents beside playing chess, i.e. opera, music, legislature, languages and much more. A lifelong buddy, Charles Maurian stated, "Paul actually never developed a passion for chess", and did not play during his college years - as rare as this seems regarding his caïssa skills.
That's quite the contrary to Fischer, whose life was playing chess.
Morphy had a longing for sophisticated culture providing the basis for an elevated humanity (expressed in his acceptance speech in NYC 1857)- for him chess was just one of those things...
Also it must be stated that the inflictions of Civil War, the death of his father, the vow to his family never to play chess professionally, and last not least the introduction to perfidy by some of his chess opponents led to his withdrawal from the flimsy 64 squares.
> Plays his moves instantly.
> Gets "depressed" because he lost a match against literally the next best player of the tournament.
> Doesn't accept cash prizes.
Just Paul Morphy things! Whatta legend.
Also he got depressed due to a draw. You learned nothing in this saga my friend
LLCool Jay I hate to break this to you in a public form. I used the same time machine and I’m, I’m... your father. C’mon here, son and give me a hug 🤗
Morphy crushed the best players of his day and if they weren’t that strong, it makes it even more amazing that Morphy was so strong, which he did on his own with almost no study. And oh yeah he retired from the game by age 25!
Yeah, but did he know opening theory?
Great point!
@@jx14aby :)
...and Morphy wept, having no more worlds to conquer.
@@davidanderson_surrey_bc Morphy the Great. It is our loss that he gave up the game so young. The pride and sorrow of chess, indeed.
Magnus has an advantage unavailable to Morphy. Carlsen can study all of Morphy's games.
I believe Carlsen must have studied the Morphy games. I also believe Morphy is unique.
Morphy can study Morphy’s game too
00:00 hello everyone
1:08 as a move, completly new game
1:32 feel free to pause the video
1:42 those who were able to do it, congratulations
1:49 those of you who just wanna enjoy the show
8:21 it was in this position
where was sorry bout that?
Sorry about that when he said " Bishop captures sorry about thag Rook captures" i think in minute 5
@5:17 It's not a full sorry about that
@@someoneelse293 but it's good can let us get by for the day
Where the hell is "captures captures"
Great you mentioned carlsen as an example....Morphy is a great legend....
Thanks for the videos! You've turned my interest in chess into a full-fledged chess obsession.
@Peter Mortensen I don't understand either question. I'm a regular subscriber gaining a regular amount of knowledge day-by-day
First American Chess Congress: Paul Morphy Homecoming
Now he’s going to Europe: Paul Morphy Far From Home
Just your friendly neighborhood Chess prodigy taking on all comers
What's next, Paul Morphy: Into the Morphy-verse? :D
*corners
Morphy is just like Fischer. Chess genius, crushes all opponents, realises chess is too easy for them and sinks into obscurity.
Fischer did play strong oponnents
Hayashi Manabu well I don’t think either Morphy or Fisher are considered to be unknown or unimportant. Quite the opposite.
@@MrDannyg77 Morphy is unknown in the US outside of people who love chess. Fischer is known mostly through the movie "The Pawn Sacrifice" about him and from his antics after he won the World Championship in 1972.
He didn't sink into obscurity. That's highly exaggerated and over blown. His changes later in life had MUCH more to do with the effects of the Civil war on him and his family than chess.
@Mr ML a 2100 ranked player implies that you are an international master and there are only 2099 players stronger than you. If your elo is 2100 then you are 2100 rated not ranked.
Hello Agadmator, thank you very much for this series, I'm honestly loving it so much. What makes it really awesome is not only the chess, but also all the details you provide about Morphy and his life, aswell as all the side stories and what people said about Morphy. This truly makes this like Chess along with story time. Thank you!
Love the historical analysis, look forward to the next phase of the saga!
Your argument about rising to the level that your competitors require of you applies to every situation in life and to every generation in history. Wise words my friend, wise words.
Good episode. Enjoyed the read outs at the end.
Legend says Alexander Grischuk really hate Morphy.
why
@@wasekhasan1094 cause grischuk is a time trouble addict
@@wasekhasan1094 grischuk will lose on time lmao
Good one😄😄
Congratulations! You're extremely good enjoyer of the show.
Best Lockdown Timepass :
::::Agadmator's Chess Channel.
Hello Agadmator. I usually dont comment on youtube videos but I have to say I watched your videos gor about 3 years now and you really upload some amazing games!! I love your game analysis and your passion. You inspired me to start my own chess channel and I just want to say thank you. And thanks for the video because Paul Morphy was one of my favorite chess player since I was 12 years old.
Whats your chess Channel?
Maurice Bishop Chess.
Thanks. Ill check you out.
Thanks for the great coverage. I really enjoyed the quotes from the books at the end. Truly, this is the good stuff!
Great series! Keep it coming.
Great video! Great saga! Congratulations Antonio
For this series of Morphy, thank you very much.
I absolutely love your coverage on Paul Morphy. Great Job.
Wonderful series. Great anecdotes. Thanks so much for doing this! Now on to Nimzovitch please!
Have you shown Rubinstein v. Nimzowitsch, Marienbad 1925 already? The Four Fianchettoed Bishops game. Your channel is excellent.
Antonio stick to what you really do well. Love your channel, it's better than TV. Well actually your are ON my tv, daily. The story telling telling in the saga's is very addictive for me, love the old foto's and details. Even if I know most of the Morphy history it's so entertaining to see it reported almost as if it was happening live. Keep it up, there is a NEED for this stuff!
Thanks for the presentation, your time and the info bro, cheers,well done.
i’m just so glad to hear agad saying “takes” again
Great video. Love the history as much as the chess. Perfect format and emphasis on both.
Another series I loved.
The epilogue was awesome as well
I just love this saga. The chess is quite interesting and fun, but when you add in the stories and reflections from Agad, well, it all becomes a magnificent brew. Bravo!
You are awesome Agamator.
McDonald's does more than just make burgers 🍔 and fries 🍟. McDonald's also gave us a lovely description of Paul Charles Morphy.
Seriously though that was a lovely quote you read for us. So interesting to see how highly he was regarded by his peers with regard to manners and style as well as sheer chess brilliance. It's certainly the case that Morphy was "as good as he needed to be" to win in his era. Great points.
You can only be as good as your opponents allow you to be. Well said
Extremely empathetic and interesting commentary. Stay safe!
thanks for another great line of history
Can't wait for next video
When there is a break in G2-MAD match and I have nothing to do but agad comes out with a new video
Love the background story to current game scenario and history about the situation Morphy was going through
thanks for the excellent video!
Didn't realize i was getting a history lesson too. Awesome!
And talent is talent regardless of the generation. Bring Morphy into the present and let him get up to speed and it is likely he would be a world champion.
$300 in 1857 is more like $26,000 today. You can't rely on inflation calculators because annual inflation figures are always understated. Use the price of gold (then versus now) as your conversion tool, and you will get a more accurate measurement of the value of $300 in 1857. There's a big difference in purchasing power between $9000 and $26000 today, which illustrates how inflation figures are always deliberately understated.
He was truly a genius because he was obviously the best, but for some reason he didn't care to improve theory for the future or teach others. He looked at the game as a hobby. If he had dedicated his life to chess I predict computers would have beaten humans only two years later than they did. It's just a game anyway, so I don't fault him for his perspective.
superb game, loved it
Love you agad. Hope you and your family are doing well
Who else is spending a stay-at-home quarantine by watching chess?
You have to do the calculation in terms of gold because that's what dollars were defined to in the mid 1800's, all the way up until 1913 as a matter of fact. Gold was $20 per ounce back then making it 15 ounces of gold that he won, which in today's price of gold is $24,000. (Gold is at $1600 per ounce)
Does anyone know what happened to Paul Morphy's victory plate? It must be worth a small fortune now as a collector's piece.
Love this historical stuff. Thanks agadmator. As always. I would add these contests before chess engines are more to be admired. I certainly respect Magnus but he has had a tremendous learning tool in chess engines not available to even Fischer,
Morphy's quick C5 idea @ 06:27 is a glimpse into future Super GM chess minds (ala Capablanca, Tal, Fischer, Kasparov, Carlsen, etc.) but it reveals his artistry! Antonio is correct that chess in Europe was (and probably still is) played at the highest level in the world but we'll soon see that Morphy was up to the challenge and that Howard Staunton avoids playing a match against him. Steinitz comments were gracious after realizing that Morphy's moves are prompt vs most his opponents. *No human is devoid of error.*
I'm glad you decided to stay with chess, Antonio.
I mean, fortnite is kinda like ches... Wait I can't say that much bullshit in a sentence
Can't wait to continue the saga
Feel free to post as many videos in a day you so please, Agad. I speak for myself but I also bear the weight of promulgating on behalf of all your fans and followers that if you were to post more, we would gladly consume more. With much alacrity do I type this comment and therefore ask that you acquiesce my entreaty. Blessings unto you and your humble abode in times such as these.
Wow this is the nifty idea expansion video. Cool
After watching Antonio from the beginning, my chess has improved enormously. I now make a Tal/Morphy move by stochastically sacrificing a piece at random, so far I have bee losing a lot of games, so now I need to work out what moves to play after the random sacrifice.
As a rank amateur, I know enough that sacrifices are not made randomly. There has to be an ensuing purpose or result.
morphy vs carlson in 980 blitz. now that would be something
Great video !
Radiç does his research excellently. I'm impressed!
Between Morphy not being taxed by weak opponents AND being forced to lay them 10:1 time odds, it's clear that Morphy's actual pure intellect and genius for the game far outstrips the results he put out that, as our host says, "was good enough to win". When push came to shove, he found that Q:f3 combination that pushes our modern super-human engines to their limit.
Thank you :)
You missed „feel free to pause the video and calculate how much 300$ from 1857 is worth in 2020“
I never stop thinking that Morphy is wearing a headphone...
The male version of Princess Leia hair.
He was very sensitive about his big goofy ears
I can't unsee this now
Last time I was this early u could choose where to put you're rook after you castle....
Edit: this saga gives me chills
It’s cool how these games really demonstrate the need for clocks to further differentiate players’ strength. My gf loves to say that she’s just as good at scrabble as me...the games are close. But I play my moves in 10 seconds or less. She takes 15-30 minutes per move lol.
Morphy was praised by almost all world champions throughout chess history, Steinitz being the exception. Thanks Agad, these are great games!
Steinitz was just a joke who couldn't accept that Morphy was clearly better than him.
If I become multi millionaire I'd give u prize for making chess reachable to common men/women with lucid explanation. Great work. I hope i give you one day.
We need an Emmanuel Lasker game Agad! He was the king of complications. I would love to see how engines deal of those games nowadays.
15:50 "You know a little bit more", you mean you enlarged our vast knowledge about the first american chess congress!
We should be really grateful that we have Agad to help us with the quarantine boredom
My first house was built in 1860. The initial purchase price was $250 dollars. So I wonder if the first place price was actually enough to buy a house, and it is not just as we would think of as $9000.
Agadmator - when will we hear you play that guitarr on display in the corner of your room!? Perhaps you could accompany next Morphy game with some Kroatian guitarr hymn... 👍
Antonio consider placing your guitar facing the wall. i.e. reverse the current position. Otherwise over time your guitar will develop a large gap between the strings and the fret board.
Just a suggestion.
Paulson saw the rook sac trick but failed to see the forking rook trick? That is just weird
For those of you who watched the video till the end.. Congratulations you're an excellent subscriber.
Maybe Agad will talk about this, but it is crazy to me to think about the fact that in traveling to Europe to play chess, Morphy would've gone via a BOAT powered by SAILS.
Paulsen was not at all bad in this series he was on a par with Morphy giving him move for move only Morphy outcalculated him by a couple of moves that's all I think no one is giving him the credit he genuinely deserves this was an epic series no doubt I'm watching the whole thing again
Rob Sillars: Castle early and often.
Me: I castle like 3 or 4 times in every game, thank you very much.
Wow! can't wait for the morphy saga now the epic journey begins can't wait to get to get a window seat with Morphy on this journey and get a ringside view by the way I miss the 173 year-old Morphy no comments from him today where are you
It looks like in this game Morphy actually started trying.
Curiously, $300 was the amount of money that you could pay to have someone else be drafted in your place for the Civil War. So in actuality, $300 was worth everything!
It would be of interest to know what Morphy did during the US Civil War.
in 1857 civil war was not yet lurking at the corner. Let stand a $300 fee to non-draft existed.
Paul Morphy had contacts to some General who stated, after discussing Pauls opinion about legislative and philosophical views on war, that "Morphy was not useful either on the battlefield or behind it".
@@erforderlich5274 Fun fact, John Quincy Adams wrote in his diary during the Monroe Administration that a Civil War was inevitable. So yes, Civil War was definitely on everyone's mind in 1857. But it is true, there was no draft in 1857, but I was just referencing the value of the money.
@@josephdestaubin7426 Fun Fact: The mind of John Quincy Adams is not everyone's mind.
Just don't know for what reason civil war was mentioned in the first place.
btw The Morphy family was rich and honoured by northern lawmakers and administers but nevertheless fostering definitive Southern politic ideas. Paul Charles' brother went to war, he didn't.
300$ was approximitely a solid silver service plate engraved, well made and priced NewYorkian. Such was given to Morphy after the tournament. So it was around worth 3000 or more todays dollar back then.
I wish stockfish was around to play against morphy. It would be really interessting to see.
Love that passage from MacDonald.
Agadmator’s comparison of Magnus Carlsen needing to be better than his competition to win, as Paul Morphy needed to be better than his competition to win is true. Computer chess programs has raised the playing skills of everyone today. But it does not and should not take away the genius of past grand masters.
What does it mean to say, "as of move x this position was never moved again?" That the position was never again recorded in tournament play? Thanks, this channel has reinvigorated by interest in chess after 30 years not playing, it is wonderful.
Yes. There's no games in the database that Agadmator uses.
@@12jswilson - Thanks, wow nice. I guess the logical question is, Is that a standard/universal database? Or are there various databases for sanctioning bodies etc?
Morphy would be a god in blitz damn.
If your opponent is Morphy, play time will be over even if there is no clock.
#Suggestion: a new playlist called "Show your Family and Friends". With everyone locked down, some of them might actually look at it...
If the opponent takes so much time, you can use this time for your own calculations as well. So it does not surprise, that Morphy needed not much time on his own moves, when he had the time to assess the situation during the 30 minutes Paulsen took for his move. I also usually need less of my own time when playing against someone who takes very much time.
God bless you Antonio
It should also be remembered that at that time no one could just put a position in a chess engine and learn that way. Also, people didn't have as many books and examples of games to learn from. Finally, many of these people were quite the amateurs when compared to today's top Grandmasters and I mean that in a good way - they didn't memorise many games and most players didn't have the game as their careers. You can see from the prize money in the US championship it is hardly something that allows one to make a living unless you are the very best.
So all being said, Morphy was amazing
I'm psyched for your Morphy goes to Europe. A quarantine relief.
I'm watching it again Morphy is not only quick on his feet but he is a very quick to play his moves trigger happy thank god he was not a cowboy but I believe this quick moves got him in trouble in many games as many times he made wrong moves impulsively even if it was not his intention he would have been fantastic in blitz and also bullet
Morphy’s game ‘printed in gold’ - that is appreciation (and fine manners)...!
#suggestion- can you show any congress games not involving Morphy so we can get an impression of the general level?
After plugging in my headphones I finally understand “sorry about that”
Please tell, what is that about?
Brendan Dennis I’m not sure of his set up or microphone, but it’s like a OBS audio loop. You hear the chess piece being placed twice; like an echo - but the same sound repeated instantly after the first, you can produce an example of this by tapping your fingers on the table