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  • Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
  • Hikaru goes into a game by Paul Morphy, the guy who got too good at chess during a time when people had to figure out how to git gud at chess on their own.
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Комментарии • 511

  • @Yaakuwu
    @Yaakuwu 3 года назад +1046

    0:35 “For those of you who were around at that time”
    His 165 yr old fans:

    • @VishalPJ
      @VishalPJ 3 года назад +8

      Jeez😂😂😂😂😂

    • @TheAngelOfDeath01
      @TheAngelOfDeath01 3 года назад +19

      How can anyone sit and say something like that with a straight face! Any boomers around here...? Makes all of us look like millennials!

    • @jameson5508
      @jameson5508 3 года назад +1

      @@TheAngelOfDeath01 Generational names and division didn't really begin to be perpetuated until World War I. Up to that point, people were just people all living the same life. The difference between a boomer and a millenial and a baby boomer is ~50-60 years, depending on personal definition. The difference between someone born in 1850 and a boomer is ~100 years. It does make sense that with the sweeping changes in virtually every facet of 1st world life through the 20th century, there are differences in attitude and opinion between generations. But in general, few individuals fit neatly into the stigmas or generalizations attached to the generation they came from aside from "The Greatest Generation" which produced some of the most influential and intelligent people in the world, Malcolm X, MLK Jr, Ray Bradbury, Rosalind Franklin, Henry Heimlich, just to name a small handful. Picasso is from the "Lost Generation." The Beatles, Zeppelin, Hendrix, The Clash, all from "The Silent Generation." Those left of the Boomer generation follow not the assumptions that they are conservative and strict, but are equally split in political and societal opinion. The term "Generation X" described alienated and ignored youthful ideas suppressed by the previous generations, but the ideals they adopted from the Greatest Generation and have long taken hold and are dominant today. Some "Millennials" are getting to be 40 years old now. Generation Z, my generation, have generated the largest economic growth in first world countries in the history of the world. And the newest label placed on a generation, "Alpha," is comprised of the teenagers and children of today. By 2025 Alphas are expected to dwarf other generations in size, with nearly 2 Billion projected to be born in this generation.
      I don't know why I went on this rant, to be honest. Maybe because I think the terms "boomer" and "millennial" need to be retired and put in the ground as they have come to respectively mean "anyone older than me" or "anyone younger than me." Or maybe because history has only rarely been so firmly divided by generational gaps as deeply as it is now.
      Anyways. Sorry for ruining the joke, Hikaru.

    • @TheAngelOfDeath01
      @TheAngelOfDeath01 3 года назад +1

      @@jameson5508 I know all that. But, you completely missed why I said as I did...

    • @cbkCD
      @cbkCD 3 года назад +4

      bro wtf is this reply section

  • @yoshi999z7
    @yoshi999z7 3 года назад +301

    “Ofcourse us as humans” Hikaru, you won’t trick us.

  • @gmpillo604
    @gmpillo604 3 года назад +259

    Morphy CRUSHED the best players of his time, taking chess as a childhood past time... retiring at 13 after smashing Lowenthal, coming out of retirement at 20 to kill time and show the chess world who was boss, he studied and played little chess by any chess master standar and so was at the BEGINNING of his true chess potential, yet was essentially invincible... as Anderssen himself said so... yeah the greatest chess genius in history

    • @akramansari885
      @akramansari885 3 года назад +40

      Agreed I can't imagine a morphy who knows modern theory😰 he will kill us

    • @theimperfectguitarist974
      @theimperfectguitarist974 3 года назад +3

      @@akramansari885 sure

    • @kevinmalone3210
      @kevinmalone3210 3 года назад +2

      Capablanca would've made mincemeat of Morphy.

    • @RMF49
      @RMF49 3 года назад +10

      @@kevinmalone3210 Didn’t know Capa was such a sore loser.

    • @gaopinghu7332
      @gaopinghu7332 3 года назад +12

      he even learnt chess from other's games, without being taught by anyone

  • @jabba7370
    @jabba7370 3 года назад +823

    "Bobby Fischer was a complete scrub" - GM Hikaru Nakamura

    • @ParamjitKaur-ki1ue
      @ParamjitKaur-ki1ue 3 года назад +3

      What does it mean?

    • @saldan3985
      @saldan3985 3 года назад +102

      "Scrubs are those who can't get no point from me"
      -GM Hikaru
      I mean, I guess he's technically correct...

    • @theplutonimus
      @theplutonimus 3 года назад +10

      @@ParamjitKaur-ki1ue it means that he was a scrub shrub

    • @ParamjitKaur-ki1ue
      @ParamjitKaur-ki1ue 3 года назад +18

      @@theplutonimus wow that didnt help a bit

    • @theplutonimus
      @theplutonimus 3 года назад +13

      @@ParamjitKaur-ki1ue Did you think that I am helpful? Turns out you were wrong, anyways a scrub means more like kind of wimp but not wimp, I dunno how to describe it
      Google describes it as
      A person who is insignificant and contemptible

  • @teksapport9351
    @teksapport9351 3 года назад +63

    Carlsen describes hikaru in one word: *decent*
    Hikaru to Fischer: *scrub*
    Fischer: *hates chess players in total*

    • @dowaliby1
      @dowaliby1 11 месяцев назад +2

      My revisions:
      Hikaru in one word: Phenomenal
      Fischer: Deservedly in the convo for GOAT
      Fischer: Hates CHESS, itself, because (in his words) "It became all about memorization."

  • @exyl_sounds
    @exyl_sounds 3 года назад +586

    14:32 imagine a hundred years after your death if your youtube channel still exists

    • @nafakamadafaka7147
      @nafakamadafaka7147 3 года назад +13

      didn't expect to see you here but I guess it's true that chess is exciting

    • @cytonickart
      @cytonickart 3 года назад +2

      you

    • @Sesquipedalia
      @Sesquipedalia 3 года назад +3

      Nice logo

    • @delayedcreator4783
      @delayedcreator4783 3 года назад +3

      imagine youtube existing for 100 years

    • @vodam6970
      @vodam6970 3 года назад +7

      @@delayedcreator4783 imagine existing for 100 years

  • @tilt_ps
    @tilt_ps 3 года назад +221

    "king cannot go back to e8 because then you can play knight takes king"
    Yes, I think I would play that...

    • @4dapse
      @4dapse 3 года назад +1

      Where was that?

    • @kahmysan
      @kahmysan 3 года назад +4

      7:35

    • @rjthom5
      @rjthom5 3 года назад +9

      Yeah, but if the knight takes the king, you can never win, because there's no king to checkmate

    • @akerukurasuke9572
      @akerukurasuke9572 3 года назад +3

      @@rjthom5 damn next game i'll sac my king and instant win

    • @GS-kw3wr
      @GS-kw3wr 3 года назад +2

      @@rjthom5 tal could only dream with a move like that

  • @73greycat43
    @73greycat43 3 года назад +84

    Dang, not often we see Hikaru talk about legendary chess players.
    Love this.

    • @greense65
      @greense65 3 года назад +1

      I agree. This was great.
      From Hikaru's ranking of the great players videos a couple months ago, it's clear he's not much of a historian of the game. Just from my limited knowledge, I could name Kasparov, Seirwan, Feingold, and Agadmator as far more knowledgeable of chess history.
      Maybe as Hikaru gets older and his own play starts to fade, he will have something to turn to, focusing more on analysis. It's fun to join him for this!

  • @pleb9243
    @pleb9243 3 года назад +142

    "Paul Morphy is an artist not a butcher"
    -agadmator

    • @varden3270
      @varden3270 3 года назад +9

      He mentioned that he got that line from someone else.

    • @perffborten3550
      @perffborten3550 3 года назад +2

      Its a grate line tho

    • @theimperfectguitarist974
      @theimperfectguitarist974 3 года назад

      @@varden3270 from Gothamchess ig? Coz he said this too

    • @donkbonktj5773
      @donkbonktj5773 3 года назад +2

      @@theimperfectguitarist974 Emanuel Lasker I think

    • @SpliffieBee
      @SpliffieBee 2 года назад +1

      @@theimperfectguitarist974 No, he said scientist instead of butcher, and that was three years after agad said it.

  • @mopbrothers
    @mopbrothers 2 года назад +53

    The way Morphy destroyed his opponents was beautiful. It was natural and wild, unlike todays coldly calculated researched games.

    • @2313rafa
      @2313rafa 2 года назад

      Mamyedorah, I mispelled that, has some of that Morphy spunk in him.

  • @dmitriymakletsev7290
    @dmitriymakletsev7290 3 года назад +37

    Without a sudden "sorry about that" this video is incomplete.

  • @murder7415
    @murder7415 3 года назад +573

    The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.
    Hikaru 👀

  • @Dragon-jd1ks
    @Dragon-jd1ks 3 года назад +193

    Hikaru is dropping mad hints that he's secretly a time traveler.
    It does explain a lot.

    • @mikeock2087
      @mikeock2087 3 года назад

      What do you mean

    • @mikeock2087
      @mikeock2087 3 года назад

      So every historian is a time traveler because they know what happened in the past?

    • @thatboi134
      @thatboi134 3 года назад +27

      @@mikeock2087 absolutely

    • @poodle5421
      @poodle5421 3 года назад +20

      @@mikeock2087 how else do they know? are you just discovering this? i was pretty sure the fact that all historians are time travellers was common knowledge

    • @zino1110
      @zino1110 3 года назад +4

      @@mikeock2087 He knows too much..

  • @dqreps
    @dqreps 3 года назад +145

    Bobby Fischer..... The greatest chess "scrub" of all time 😂

    • @brandonk.4864
      @brandonk.4864 3 года назад +3

      he said compared to Paul Morphy

    • @therockdwarfmockdwarf1476
      @therockdwarfmockdwarf1476 3 года назад +14

      @@brandonk.4864 that’s only the difference in points though Fischer probably would beat Murphy as he played later on with more knowledge

    • @therockdwarfmockdwarf1476
      @therockdwarfmockdwarf1476 3 года назад +2

      @Miller Hansen but he didn’t, who’s to say what would’ve happened because it didn’t

    • @Qhsjahajw
      @Qhsjahajw 3 года назад

      @@therockdwarfmockdwarf1476 exactly is Capablanca had dies before playing alekhine no one would have thought he would beat capa

    • @therockdwarfmockdwarf1476
      @therockdwarfmockdwarf1476 3 года назад

      @Philosopher KS You could argue that hikaru has more competition, if carlsen stays on the course he’s on then he’ll probably be considered better than anyone else in history. Hikaru also has a more modern understanding of the game so he already has an advantage

  • @Master_Roshi420
    @Master_Roshi420 3 года назад +17

    0:35 “1st thing I’m gonna go over is this game from 1850 in Paris. Now for those of you who were around back then you’ll remember there wasn’t technology” GM Hikaru nakamura

  • @janbruhn6652
    @janbruhn6652 3 года назад +114

    2:22 German word for history : Geschichte

    • @RetsamX
      @RetsamX 3 года назад +45

      "Apperantly everyone in this chat is german now"
      He underestimates the number of german viewers :D

    • @cbr7170
      @cbr7170 3 года назад +39

      @@RetsamX Mein persönliches Highlight wäre ja eine Collab zwischen Monte und Hikaru. Stellt euch mal Monte beim Schachspielen vor.

    • @Lmi109
      @Lmi109 3 года назад +1

      @@cbr7170 would be crazy funny

    • @hellooo12
      @hellooo12 3 года назад

      @@cbr7170 i agree

    • @RetsamX
      @RetsamX 3 года назад +15

      @@cbr7170
      "In Germany, we say 'Ehre genommen"
      "Alright let's play Qh5, Nf6 and c5... "

  • @BryanN4
    @BryanN4 3 года назад +19

    "For those of you guys who were around back then..."
    Me: "Ah, yes, the good old days"

  • @ThePrinceraj88
    @ThePrinceraj88 2 года назад +10

    Bobby Fischer will continue to be the greatest chess enigma that ever existed and no RUclipsr will take that away from him..

    • @kevinmalone3210
      @kevinmalone3210 9 месяцев назад +1

      True, Fischer proved himself, and is a legend.

  • @internetperson3919
    @internetperson3919 3 года назад +53

    0:33 For those of you who were around in 1858

    • @Eorzat
      @Eorzat 3 года назад +8

      I don't know if I've ever actually laughed at one of Hikaru's jokes, but that one got me.

  • @zer0ed779
    @zer0ed779 3 года назад +5

    Absolutely love this video and always appreciate the respect for how great Morphy was.

  • @lucagerza7372
    @lucagerza7372 3 года назад +28

    “Those of you who speak German”
    I’m German and I had no idea what you said until you said it in English 😂

    • @Benjo1102
      @Benjo1102 3 года назад +1

      You are not alone there 😂

    • @MrEgretson
      @MrEgretson 3 года назад +3

      I searched for that comment 😂

    • @jocobbrody1533
      @jocobbrody1533 3 года назад

      I'm not german and don't even speak german that well but for some reason i understood.

  • @lars1776
    @lars1776 3 года назад +21

    😂His German pronunciation is hilarious😂 Mindblowing that he knows Montanablack though

  • @ngltbhimo
    @ngltbhimo 3 года назад +22

    Hikaru needs to give Monte a chess lesson

  • @jarredmarasigan4857
    @jarredmarasigan4857 3 года назад +8

    4:06 Not a bongcloud xD

  • @eltyjamessmith3482
    @eltyjamessmith3482 3 года назад +17

    "of course us as humans"
    Mark Zuckerberg has left the chat

  • @tenzin9327
    @tenzin9327 3 года назад +8

    I think Bobby Fischer is by far the top 3 GMs of all time in terms of talent , domination over other GMs of their era and the feat that Bobby achieved title of the world champion in an era where the Soviets had literally chess school where children were taught from an age as early as 4 years ,he did not have any support or seconds as the other Soviet GM s may have had moreover the fact that he demanded more money for the prize pool before he decided to compete against Spassky in 1972 also pushed the chess world into an era where more money would be invested in chess .Dont forget that Paul Morphy hated chess because there would have been hardly any money into chess during the 1800 ,the fact that he wanted to become a lawyer but an unsuccessful one also could have led Morphy to leave chess , as society during those times would have scorned at a man who just played a board game (even though Morphy came from a well off family )

    • @Justpassingby204
      @Justpassingby204 Год назад

      I looked into morphy and I saw that his lawyer career wasn’t very successful; although, I hope this wasn’t the case

  • @Vepporizer
    @Vepporizer 3 года назад +19

    1:08 I'm german and i didn't understand what you said until you said that it's german

    • @topbzy0467
      @topbzy0467 3 года назад

      Handbuch des Schach spiels ? Maybe

    • @tanjiro7241
      @tanjiro7241 3 года назад

      Yeh that's what he said there. I didn't understand it to first cause he pronounce the ch so funny XD

  • @zalkif1868
    @zalkif1868 3 года назад +12

    For those who wants to see more of morphy match. You can watch agadmator "The morphy saga" Series where he covers all of paul morphy matches

  • @leslie321200
    @leslie321200 3 года назад +95

    "Hello everyone, welcome back to the Morphy Saga!"
    Sorry, wrong channel.

  • @ligma5058
    @ligma5058 Год назад +1

    Fischer returning from the grave after beung called scrub:

  • @FordjenAndHisSons
    @FordjenAndHisSons 3 года назад +4

    "I can't believe how ridiculous hikaru can be when he talks about Fischer "

  • @coalblack666
    @coalblack666 3 года назад +27

    Thanks for finally acknowledging us 19th century boys

  • @stephenl7048
    @stephenl7048 3 года назад

    Could not agree more. I get more pleasure from a tournament book like St Petersburg 1914, and the annotations by Lasker, than any amount of comp analysis.

  • @OmneAurumNon
    @OmneAurumNon 3 года назад +4

    Good to see Hikaru showing some Morphy love :)

  • @th_owl4500
    @th_owl4500 3 года назад +111

    Queen's gambit fans are gonna get triggered by the intro

    • @Max-kv8uw
      @Max-kv8uw 3 года назад +4

      Why? I don’t get it.

    • @isasadiqov7721
      @isasadiqov7721 3 года назад +5

      @@Max-kv8uw cos most of them don't know shit about chess

    • @aqeelraja4750
      @aqeelraja4750 3 года назад +46

      @@isasadiqov7721 and?. It’s great that theirs a lot of new ppl coming to the game because of such a great show. I wouldn’t hate on them

    • @brandonk.4864
      @brandonk.4864 3 года назад

      why?

    • @th_owl4500
      @th_owl4500 3 года назад +14

      @@Max-kv8uw The Queen's Gambit is based on a true story, in which the prodigy Beth Harmen is based on Bobby Fischer of course without the sex and drugs part.

  • @kylebroussard5952
    @kylebroussard5952 3 года назад +6

    I like that you immediately focus on the lack of technology back then. I always thought that chess history should be separated into pre and post-computer / engine time frames to really preserve the skill and honor of past players.
    It's just not fair at all to measure up players who had to calculate positions, end games, openings, etc... on their own, vs players today who can just look at a computer to find the best positions, memorize it, and then employ it.
    That's not to take anything away from modern GMs and Super GMs, but it just emphasizes how good and ahead of their times champions of the past really were, and how creative/skilled/intuitive they had to be.

    • @oldoddjobs
      @oldoddjobs 2 года назад

      As if one's ability to recognise & remember patterns is somehow distinguishable from "talent"! The self-contradictory notion that a weak chess player can memorise positions is possibly romantic at heart, rather than merely stupid. Are we to take it that given a computer & a subscription to New In Chess Paul Morphy would have reached 5000 ELO? Or at any rate far exceeded the strength of a Carlsen or a Kasparov?
      Time to make up your mind. Was it harder for a strong player to excel at chess when there weren't many strong players around? Or is it harder now that there are millions of them?

  • @lukeshaw4287
    @lukeshaw4287 3 года назад +1

    The thing is the newer a game is the easier it is to gain an edge and greater discrepancies between players are present. That’s why nowadays nobody is way ahead of everyone else.

    • @castrokobe24
      @castrokobe24 Год назад

      On the flip side, every player now a days has the opportunity to learn from players before them, AND we have super engines. You got to respect each generation for their best player’s dominance.

  • @ryanrobinson8682
    @ryanrobinson8682 Год назад +3

    Umm Fischer wasn't a scrub Hikaru, sorry. If the two of them played in their peak I'm probably 99% sure Fischer would win every singe game as white.

  • @woody442
    @woody442 3 года назад +13

    If you actually wanna start the german-chess-project, i was honored to help you! Grüße aus Deutschland, keep up the great stuff!

  • @ferdinandluskel6999
    @ferdinandluskel6999 3 года назад +6

    2:18-2:28 The moment, when the Germans write "Geschichte" in chat, but Hikaru doesn't know how to pronounce it so he just starts to laugh hysterical.

  • @quinndaryweatherspooniii4152
    @quinndaryweatherspooniii4152 3 года назад +17

    3:30 and I have school at 8:00 “let’s watch hikaru”

    • @Mistoakunen
      @Mistoakunen 3 года назад +2

      We are in the same boat my friend

    • @saucegod4130
      @saucegod4130 3 года назад +1

      dude its 10 am at my place where you livin bro

    • @-ChrisD
      @-ChrisD 3 года назад

      @@saucegod4130 It's about 04:30am here on the east coast USA

    • @ym276
      @ym276 3 года назад

      @@saucegod4130 Most of Naka's viewers are American, because he's an American player

  • @naturenvideos557
    @naturenvideos557 3 года назад +7

    Lmao Love his german „accents“ =) nice video, Ty for the guide

  • @jordanmartens5591
    @jordanmartens5591 3 года назад

    @5:16 "Of course, for us as humans... Not humans, sorry. Of course as us..." Hahaha so you've finally spilled the beans

  • @TooShawn
    @TooShawn 3 года назад +2

    I love how the GOATS of chess can't be compared with one another because of the "age" or time they played.

  • @finalspoon7881
    @finalspoon7881 3 года назад +7

    Nah respect to Paul Morphy, the man was a master at chess👍👍

  • @TheTachy0n
    @TheTachy0n 3 года назад

    Would love more of this. Hearing a super gm analyze historical games is amazing.

  • @Symbioticism
    @Symbioticism 3 года назад +2

    4:05, the freudian slip move.

  • @ravendon
    @ravendon 2 года назад +2

    Fun fact. After Morphy crushed everyone in the world, he offered to play anyone a match and give his opponent pawn and move and none accepted.

  • @jayteegamble
    @jayteegamble 2 года назад

    They played 6 of these Kings Gambit games in 3 hours. They were semi-casual games they played for fun after Morphy won their official match. They were waiting for the photographer to set up his equipment and decided to pass the time playing some chess.

  • @arcadeplayer9804
    @arcadeplayer9804 3 года назад +2

    I have seen some of morphy's game om agadmator...and yeah, his opening is old but he played middle game and end game like a modern chess

  • @richardsrensen4219
    @richardsrensen4219 3 года назад

    What i love with Paul Morphys games is those Comboes

  • @alisma77
    @alisma77 3 года назад +2

    Football : VAR
    CHESS : ENGINES.

  • @Basicabez
    @Basicabez 3 года назад

    Love this kind of content! I hope Hikaru keeps doing these analysis

  • @aryamansrivastava1816
    @aryamansrivastava1816 3 года назад +4

    For those of you who were around the time of 1858 would know -GM Hikaru ~2021

  • @ravendon
    @ravendon 2 года назад +1

    Another fun fact. Morphy invented the bongcloud. Except it was a super bongcloud with the king moving up ke2 then ke3. So it should be called a supermorphycloud

  • @AndreVictorAU
    @AndreVictorAU 3 года назад +5

    for those who were around back there :')

  • @saxy1player
    @saxy1player 3 года назад +6

    The 'S' in Spiel in Schachspiel is pronounced like "sch" in Fischer.

  • @amnbn7871
    @amnbn7871 3 года назад +3

    Would be nice if the editors show the chat when hikaru talks about it

  • @toyindipo
    @toyindipo Год назад +2

    20 years from now Hikaru the YT streamer will be forgotten, 100 years from now, Fischer's name will still be mentioned amongst the greatest ever

    • @Yakubian
      @Yakubian Год назад +1

      Hikarus cooler and liked by everyone, Fischers name will always be stained by his character, Hikarus also just a better player and the 5 time

    • @Alex25azl
      @Alex25azl Год назад

      ​@@YakubianI think that if hikaru was born at the same time that bobby was,bobby would be better

  • @NoudvanHarskamp
    @NoudvanHarskamp 3 года назад +1

    Amazing video! The games of Paul Morphy got my very excited getting into chess. He was a genius!

    • @gmpillo604
      @gmpillo604 3 года назад +1

      He was THE chess genius

  • @PopcornMax179
    @PopcornMax179 3 года назад +3

    YES more chess lessons and history.

  • @SpartanOdyssey
    @SpartanOdyssey 3 года назад +1

    Hikaru's memory be like "No no I remember this clearly, there was this game 165 years ago where I was in this line..."

  • @TheLfamily24
    @TheLfamily24 Месяц назад

    Hikaru would have dusted Bobby Fischer then dude would be pissed about computers

  • @timw594
    @timw594 4 месяца назад

    I watched an old Bobby Fischer interview where he talked about how good Morphy was and others and even he hesitated a bit before halfway saying he thinks he would win against Morphy on implied equal terms. He never really hesitated when discussing anyone else like he did Morphy. That alone keeps Morphy as my fav and Fischer as #2 fav for me. The game required far more art and genius in Morphy's day then it did in Fischer's.

  • @LucaIlarioCarbonini
    @LucaIlarioCarbonini 3 года назад +1

    And this skyrocketed to the top 100, maybe top 20 RUclips videos!
    Thanks for:
    - teach me English
    - teach me Chess
    - teach me some History

  • @ASMRChess
    @ASMRChess 3 года назад +1

    Who cares what the computer thinks? Still BEAUTIFUL! I did an ASMR video on "The Opera Game" by Paul Morphy - to me maybe the most beautiful game of chess ever played. Paul Morphy was so awesome.

  • @PraiseG423
    @PraiseG423 3 года назад

    You definitely disproved that belief. - Bobby Fischer

    • @Dc-kk9bd
      @Dc-kk9bd 5 месяцев назад +1

      He's still waiting for a female champion to prove him wrong

  • @a100reasons
    @a100reasons 2 года назад +1

    Bobby Fischer was right, chess has turned into a sad group of people who memorize all the openings and tactics and that with the help of their teams and computers have completely destroyed all the creativity of the game. Morphy was the last pure artist of chess.

  • @32philosopher
    @32philosopher 3 года назад +4

    Thanks! Great content!

  • @a.m.armstrong8354
    @a.m.armstrong8354 3 года назад +1

    Just love the way Hikaru talks abt chess!

  • @aashleshkaushal5755
    @aashleshkaushal5755 3 года назад +3

    Still bobby fischer is my favourite....

  • @jusleejolm1042
    @jusleejolm1042 3 года назад +6

    The difference between carlsen's rating and caruanas rating rn is 39 . So I guess carlsen is a scrub by that logic.

    • @augustusmaximus11
      @augustusmaximus11 3 года назад +1

      Yes

    • @gmpillo604
      @gmpillo604 3 года назад +2

      Compared to Morphy... yes

    • @leadnitrate2194
      @leadnitrate2194 3 года назад +1

      He's even more of a scrub considering that the rating gap was only 3 back in 2018

  • @preparedsurvivalist2245
    @preparedsurvivalist2245 2 года назад

    Again, we see another Morphy game where he doesn't develop ALL his pieces, he simply develops more pieces than his opponent. Its as though a key part of Morphy's playing style was not just the tactics of attacking, but also understanding the importance of maintaining a lead in development and activity.

  • @nsouwloukifach
    @nsouwloukifach 3 года назад +1

    Hikaru: "In 1858, for those of you guys who were around"
    Everybody: "HAH that's some low key comedy"
    Plot twist: Hikaru's real first name is Hiro

  • @swolejszo
    @swolejszo 3 года назад

    4:22 Hikaru plays a bong cloud out of reflex.

  • @d0943
    @d0943 3 года назад +3

    too bad chess is a game of memory nowadays

  • @ravendon
    @ravendon 2 года назад +1

    Yet another fun fact. Chess games were played without a clock. So players had infinite time to think.

    • @JimmyBoosterCrate
      @JimmyBoosterCrate 2 года назад +1

      And Morphy played WAY faster than his opponents to. Dude was absolutely godlike

  • @jaylee6769
    @jaylee6769 3 года назад

    Hilary should do more videos like this. Especially about Morphy

  • @diggocombs4548
    @diggocombs4548 2 года назад

    The original "Gambit"

  • @johnrosenbaum585
    @johnrosenbaum585 Год назад

    That would make the person "around back then" 🤣170 years old...

  • @renba7059
    @renba7059 3 года назад

    I really like these commentary analysis videos!

  • @dauraktv
    @dauraktv Год назад

    It is similar with the chess game called Go. The person considered the greatest player ever was from 1600, and we study his games still. Dosaku. He is considered 4 stones stronger than the greatest player of the 1900s. That’s about 400 elo

    • @dauraktv
      @dauraktv Год назад

      It’s really great to have all their games written down, hundreds and hundreds. Because I’m too scared to play games and rather study. Something is wrong with me and I don’t know how to fix it

  • @oriondx72
    @oriondx72 3 года назад

    with Fischer describing him as "perhaps the most accurate player who ever lived." on Paul Morphy.

  • @armwrestlingfan6804
    @armwrestlingfan6804 3 года назад +1

    Only person with the Fischer award is Fischer. Only guy to not lose a single game in competition, correct?

  • @robinpintado6687
    @robinpintado6687 3 года назад +1

    After 100 years, the AI's will look at xQc's wooden shield and still won't be able to come up with a counter play.

  • @adamlemire6278
    @adamlemire6278 3 года назад +2

    Petition for these videos to be called: "Hikadmator reviews x"

  • @Gus-r9j
    @Gus-r9j 9 месяцев назад

    Fairly accurate (albeit ironic) commentary on a game played during an era when only the idle rich had the spare time to play chess, much less study it.

    • @kylemenos
      @kylemenos 7 дней назад

      You couldn't be more wrong if you tried. You are about as correct as the idea that slavery was invented by white people that America loves to portray as fact.

  • @Sei783
    @Sei783 3 года назад

    I'm guessing Na6 was played to both get the knight into the game and prevent the idea of white's knight from coming to b5 with a potential mate by the queen on c7. Objectively, Nc6 is better and the mate can be stopped by either bishop or the rook.

  • @aradan3913
    @aradan3913 3 года назад

    8:55 if anything i think it makes it more interesting because it gives a new level of analisis on the outcome: gives you the reflection of what happened, in this case watching i was like "omg he succeeded in taking the queen with a secuence of really good moves, has more space taken and cornered a knight" but that came at a cost i realized after.
    You see it and think it's a really interesting position, one player gave up a lot to capture a queen but has pieces on the board, and the computer reflects that balance. Impartial to who made the power moves or was more agressive.
    The 0 doesnt mean it was for nothing it means after all that both players made plays and the evaluation should be "were those good plays or was this a constant fumble of their position?"

  • @Jackson87RandomClips
    @Jackson87RandomClips 3 года назад

    That 1858 lime had me laughing too much!

  • @omerosta2934
    @omerosta2934 3 года назад +4

    1:04 only understood that only after you said it was "deutsch" haha
    Einfach shackspil

  • @wepe92
    @wepe92 3 года назад

    Ahh I remember back then Paul Morphy came to my place after back from his Europe journey and rambled about how bad Europe players were, some dude literally wasting hours calculating into single move blunder, and how he got tired of silly excuses made by so-called "Howard the coward" to avoid playing against him. Back then i wasn't into chess yet so I only replied, "Well now the others know who the real champ is" and we just drank the night away. I think that was one of the last moment he felt open talking about chess in general.
    I wish I could help him being happier, but in the following month I have to move for my job and sadly we lost contact and I never had a time to meet him in person anymore.
    Thanks Hikaru for bringing back the old memories. 1800s was such a crazy time.

  • @maliito582
    @maliito582 3 года назад +2

    montänabläck haha ehrenmann

  • @TheAngelOfDeath01
    @TheAngelOfDeath01 3 года назад

    “For those of you who were around at that time”

  • @jackslater8688
    @jackslater8688 3 года назад +1

    Hikaru. Wish you had a personality in that old Chessmaster game, then I could watch you play Morphy.

  • @TheSereneWanderer87
    @TheSereneWanderer87 13 дней назад

    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.

  • @storyteller5050
    @storyteller5050 3 года назад

    Thank you very much GM nakamura fir this video abouy Murphy.

  • @12345DJay
    @12345DJay 3 года назад

    it's so funny to see Hikaru discovering more and more Twitch Chat Meta.
    Wholesome stuff

  • @JuicyLeek
    @JuicyLeek 3 года назад +1

    The first time I heard of Paul Morphy was when Pokimane called him a "caveman brain"...

  • @leftyriverfunforlife3411
    @leftyriverfunforlife3411 3 года назад

    Mr Nakamura , nicely done , hope you will do more about Morphy , Tal , Cpa .... ect .