At this point we can safely say that Agadmator is one of the very few in our world that succeeded in making chess history reborn, telling exciting stories about forgotten chess games. Thank you Agad!
This is an insult to the chess community. I love agadmator, and he is the best, but this comment is like saying Magnus is the only successful player in the world, or Fischer back in the day. It neglects the hard work of so many!
I love the way Agadmator approaches language. Of course he doesn't know what the "brim" of a hat is, so he just pulls up a technical diagram for verification
His use of the English language as a non-native is remarkable. I realize that most Europeans are multilingual, but his diction and usage of English is excellent. A lot of the enjoyment of his videos, for me is simply his presentation of the material. Very well researched and you don’t need to be a chess expert to enjoy it.
Gerterz Like every impressionable kid- and typically ones with low self-esteem; you all always fish for likes on here so you can spend a few minutes staring at your likes to feel better about yourself.. There’s so many better and more sustaining ways of feeling good about yourself that doesn’t include regurgitating the same fucking bs comment we’ve all seen 100 times before (I always wonder who fucking likes these unoriginal comments?) I don’t get it! Little side note, kids tend to call others kids/a young age to try and be percieved as adults, I can almost certainly say that ‘we’ can all see right through you lol
@@ballaking1000 It was meant to show Agadmator that I (and everyone else who liked the comment) like the Morphy saga. If you want to make something more out of it and try to seem mature go ahead. It was nothing more, nothing less.
@@vladavasiljev classical chess maybe, but in fischers random it coud go either way, especialy if we're talking about fischer, i mean he is the best player ever
Sadly, before the days of penicillin and disinfectant, it wasn't unheard of for people to die from something as seemingly benign as a splinter or even paper cut.
It seems to me this is main reason people died so young 100+ years ago. There were many people who lived into their 60s+ all through history so the body was capable of a long life for at least thousands of years. But when a paper cut can kill you the odds of dying young are very high.
I just want to say "thank you" when I played chess as a kid and was quite good in comparison to those I played with. A few years ago I started playing chess again and wanted to improve my game. I quickly came across opening principles and practiced my tactics but to study the theory is something I found to be "a drag". I decided rather than study extensively, I would just play lots and learn through experience with the mindset that "maybe in 20 years I will be a grandmaster". My thanks is for the quality content you have flooded RUclips with and the way you always point out the advantages of certain positions. I even imitate your commentary sometimes when I play like "we have knight captures, knight captures and now Qc3+ with check, forcing an exchange of queens" 😂 "Here the material is equal, but white is just better, black has four pawn islands, white has 2 and the bishop pair and his rooks have the open files" 😂 But it really helps, so thank you again. Your videos have assisted me in raising my rating from 1150 to 1650. God bless you, whomever you perceive him or her to be 👆
I live in New York now, and I think the New York chess club no longer exists. We do have the Marshall Chess club In Greenwich village which is the main chess club here. They have a very nice statue of frank marshall in there
@@LearnWithBahman . That must be a joke. A city infested with homelessness, a bankrupt state and housing so expensive that you must be a millionaire to live there. Pass.
@@MrSupernova111 The bankruptcy of CA is a fiction that, as best I can tell, is propagated because of jealousy. It's fine to prefer somewhere else to SF, but "bankrupt state" is laughably false.
OMG The Chess Tournament book by Staunton is one of the only chess books my library has!! I have read it like 80 times, so cool to know I was reading the same book as Morphy!!
Been a big fan of yours for a couple of years now, you've taught me so much not only about how to play chess, but also the history of the game and lives of some of the great masters. Thank you, keep it up!
Thompson put up one hell of a battle. Didn't appear to give an inch, until there were no more inches to give. He just got suffocated by the art of sacrifice.
I am from Romania, I am 68 years old, I am a chess player but not in competition. For me chess is a pleasure, a hobby, but I was coleg and I am friend with a grand master from Romania during my student life between 1972 and 1976 (when I got the licence in mathematics and IT) where I was his sparring partener ! I learn a lot for an amateur and my love for chess grows ! I know about Paul Charles Morphy readind a book from Paul Keres ("The technique of the opening") and I appreciate him as one of the greates combinatorial players of all time ! So your saga is for me very welcome and make my age to be interesting ! At my age I am retired for 3 years and I spend my free time playing or watching chess (I like Morphy, Alehin, Capablanca, Tal, Botvinik, Fisher and others), reading books (1 / day because I learned to quickly read about 100 pages per hour) and watching tennis games (as a Romanian I'm a Simona Halep fan) and women's volleyball (as a Latin I'm a fan of Samantha Bricio from Mexico and I've known her since she played at USC Trojans UCLA) and listening to music (especially Dimash Kudaibergen from Kazakhstan, probably the best vocalist ever you can see him at the Joe Biden inauguration event by Sisters Cities International) ! And I like your comments about chess ! They are very friendly and understandable to chess players and they also have humor, which is a great sign of intelligence for the commentator ! So I very honoured to subscribe to your channel ! I wish you all the best as a man and as a chess player !
Mahalo for the videos! I came back to chess last year after not playing since childhood. Ironically, I visited New Orleans last May just after starting Chess again, but didn't know of Morphy yet. We are returning to New Orleans next week and am looking forward to spending some time seeing the Morphy house and playing some street chess with him in mind.
that was supposedly his dad's good friend that cut him by mistake as he turned around to say hello. they met at the market by coincidentally as he was not meeting with the gentlemen.
I'm so glad we voted to do a Morphy saga. If anyone in chess history deserves to have their story beautifully told by you, Antonio, it would be THE Paul Morphy!
Horrible for Morphy's Dad to die from an eye infection from the brim of a hat. How nice to get $300 if u beat him, $100 if u don't, just to cover your travel expenses 30 minute limit per move, as Antonio mentioned back in those days, there were no chess clocks! 06:03 List of books Paul Morphy read before going to play in this tournament James Thompson = founder of New York chess club 08:45 Tactic 1: how to win a pawn 11:14 I would play Qxd4 and go into a Q, Double R ending a pawn up, rather than retreat Bd7 to f5. 14:32 Tactic 2: win another pawn 16:50 Clean Finish Thank you for the history lesson Antonio
It is quite providential that the First American Chess Congress should happen during the vacant time for the meteoric rise of one of the most brilliant chess geniuses of all time. This was for our benefit, as Paul Morphy's dazzlingly harmonious play is inspirational to this day.
#suggestion Reposted with suggestion hashtag So all the vid ideas for you posted in the last few days in on easy place! (in no Particular order) 1. The Fischer v Spassky rematch 2. A really great Carlsen London System game 3. Kasparov Kramnik 2000, the games Kramnik won 4. A Game of Kramnik destroying the King’s Indian 5. Kasparov v the World 6. Annand Carlsen 2014 7. Vids on Famous Chess Variants - not just 960, maybe Capabalanca Chess, or even Chinese chess or the Original Chatranja. Love the channel
The player with the white pieces must be really good. He got the "Morphy" head for the whole game! (too good of a comment that I think every video of this saga should have)
Some information on one of Morphy's books: "La Régence" was the title of a French chess magazine, named after the cafe where famous players met in Paris. Morphy himself played there in 1858-1859. The collection of Lionel Kieseritzky, also a good player, was to be a collection of games like the 50 that can be found here: books.google.fr/books?id=7CcCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover For French speakers, on Wikipedia: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_de_la_R%C3%A9gence fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Kieseritzky
Two things: I do not think the New York Chess Club exists, perhaps merged with Manhattan Chess Club or Marshall -- I do not think it has existed for a long time. As to Morphy's dad dying from a slight cut on the eye: Yes, before Penicillin infections of various sorts could be very serious -- syphilis was about as bad a disease as one could imagine but suddenly it could be cured rapidly -- today it would almost be like a cure for death. Coincidentally, I think one of the first famous uses of Penicillin involved a cut on the eye and I would guess infections close to the brain were more dangerous than other locations where perhaps amputation was an option. Here is the sad story of an early patient, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Alexander_(police_officer) who died from a cut almost a century after Alonzo Morphy.
5:16 All of the opponents were chosen randomly. Okay you were going to be paired against Shakespeare. Board 2, you will be playing against Gengis Khan, we know he's dead but do your best.
#suggestion Hey agadmator, big fan of you. Can you please show a game of Laszlo Szabo. Laszlo Szabo vs Karoly Honfi, 1950 Laszlo Szabo vs Nikola Padevsky , 1972 It would be such a treat for us who likes old stuff. Big fan of yours.
Perhaps SSSR got an idea for "Bulgarian umbrella" from this case of death caused by the hat. (I played this video backward several times, and still didn't understand what the injury was: "cut his eye... not serious but got badly infected..."?! Anyway(s), at 11:58 Black could have tried ...Rh4, and if White takes gxh4, he is check.mated ...Bxh2#. Of course, White has simple Nxc6 and he wins. No, back to some game from Fischer's saga - Antonio showed a photo of Fischer during a game from La Habana tournament in 1965 (when Bora Ivkov famously ruined "already won first place") and Antonio said "probably from that tournament" - but Fischer had played this La Habana tournament from Marshall chess club in NY via teleprinter, since he didn't get the visa. The photo was most certainly made in La Habana next year, 1966, during Chess Olympiad in which Fischer did participate and re-launched Lasker's exchange variation of Ruy Lopez by three spectacular wins on 1st board for US team. Regarding the opening, Fischer in this variation almost always played 5. Nb5, and only after his articles in Boys' Life it became known that Paulsen variation in which Fischer scored so many wins had been played by Morphy and even Andersen.
At this point we can safely say that Agadmator is one of the very few in our world that succeeded in making chess history reborn, telling exciting stories about forgotten chess games.
Thank you Agad!
so true
Indeed ! I love this stuff, I love these stories.
This is an insult to the chess community. I love agadmator, and he is the best, but this comment is like saying Magnus is the only successful player in the world, or Fischer back in the day. It neglects the hard work of so many!
Never forget matojelic!
@@lukemarks3281 We don't
"It was a small cut. Morphy's father died." Well, that escalated quickly.
kavin elango basically, antibiotics probably weren’t discovered yet
hahahahahaha
After cutting him with the brim of the hat, I can imagine the man saying ''Sorry 'bout that''
Ah, yes. The good old days when a shaving cut could be fatal.
Festus Eseigbe He’d have to wait another eighty years. At least morphine was there to ease his death.
"Welcome back to the good stuff"
You're damn right
lol
good stuf.txt is probably a file on most people's hd
I agree with the quote. Even Giri is an artist. He constantly draws.
uhhhh, savage!
Underrated comment
powerful stuff
😂😂😂
It is as this moment that we have a completely new video
ahahahahah true
I love the way Agadmator approaches language. Of course he doesn't know what the "brim" of a hat is, so he just pulls up a technical diagram for verification
Being french canadian, I didn't know! The devil is in the details!
His use of the English language as a non-native is remarkable. I realize that most Europeans are multilingual, but his diction and usage of English is excellent. A lot of the enjoyment of his videos, for me is simply his presentation of the material. Very well researched and you don’t need to be a chess expert to enjoy it.
13:56 “finally this rook evolves into a pig”
I did not understand this, would someone please explain?
@@martincarr125 I haven't finished watching, but maybe the Rook started devouring pieces? 😅
Martin Carr there is a checkmate pattern with 2 rooks on the 7th rank which is called blind swine mate
It’s because two rooks on the second rank are known as “Pigs on the 7th Rank” because they eat everything on the 7th rank
Came for the "Hello everyone"
Left with the *G O O D S T U F F*
I'd love a hoodie with Good Stuff
lmaoooo
morphy: that move is illegal
me: what are you, some law student?
morphy: yes
me: resigns
"Okay everyone, this will be a knockout style tournament, Thompson, you're paired with Morphy" 😐
lol
Orion 99 Better check that I have my ticket home
Orion 99 I hear my mother calling.
Makes me think of the scene in the Queens gambit when beth introduced herself to her opponent and he's like "fuck"
I'm a simple man. I see Morphy on the thumbnail, I click.
Gerterz did anyone ask
@@marketvedhavabhondha264 lol are you 5?
Morphy always gets a Morphy head.
Gerterz Like every impressionable kid- and typically ones with low self-esteem; you all always fish for likes on here so you can spend a few minutes staring at your likes to feel better about yourself.. There’s so many better and more sustaining ways of feeling good about yourself that doesn’t include regurgitating the same fucking bs comment we’ve all seen 100 times before (I always wonder who fucking likes these unoriginal comments?) I don’t get it!
Little side note, kids tend to call others kids/a young age to try and be percieved as adults, I can almost certainly say that ‘we’ can all see right through you lol
@@ballaking1000 It was meant to show Agadmator that I (and everyone else who liked the comment) like the Morphy saga. If you want to make something more out of it and try to seem mature go ahead. It was nothing more, nothing less.
i wish Morphy lived in 1957,he'd have played against Tal and Fischer.
He couldn't stand a chance, like Tal and Fisher vs today's top super gm's... Simply evolution of the sport.
I think there are equaly strong player
@@anasothman1686 Not in the slightest
1.5k players speculating about what would have happened if Paul had lived. Just RUclips things
@@vladavasiljev classical chess maybe, but in fischers random it coud go either way, especialy if we're talking about fischer, i mean he is the best player ever
I can't believe that someone died this way......wtf
Sadly, before the days of penicillin and disinfectant, it wasn't unheard of for people to die from something as seemingly benign as a splinter or even paper cut.
its fake, all strange death explanations/reasons from notable caracter from humankind are fake/invented/fabricated
It seems to me this is main reason people died so young 100+ years ago. There were many people who lived into their 60s+ all through history so the body was capable of a long life for at least thousands of years. But when a paper cut can kill you the odds of dying young are very high.
@@Remi-B-Goode are you trolling???
@@Remi-B-Goode if you got an infection and it got in your blodd stream you were done
I have been waiting for extended coverage of Morphy; only Fiengold has had several videos of Morphy and his games. Thank you, Agad!!!
Frankly, terrible
I just want to say "thank you" when I played chess as a kid and was quite good in comparison to those I played with. A few years ago I started playing chess again and wanted to improve my game. I quickly came across opening principles and practiced my tactics but to study the theory is something I found to be "a drag". I decided rather than study extensively, I would just play lots and learn through experience with the mindset that "maybe in 20 years I will be a grandmaster". My thanks is for the quality content you have flooded RUclips with and the way you always point out the advantages of certain positions. I even imitate your commentary sometimes when I play like "we have knight captures, knight captures and now Qc3+ with check, forcing an exchange of queens" 😂
"Here the material is equal, but white is just better, black has four pawn islands, white has 2 and the bishop pair and his rooks have the open files" 😂
But it really helps, so thank you again. Your videos have assisted me in raising my rating from 1150 to 1650.
God bless you, whomever you perceive him or her to be 👆
She is called Caïssa (The goddess of chess). . .
Man I love the depth of study Agad has done for this Saga, really love the detailing
Just read Lawson's book like he did.
Thank Lawson not Agad
not only a chess lesson, a history lesson as well, thank you
Taimanov variation played before Taimanov was born :D
Just Morphy things
It's paulsen variation
I live in New York now, and I think the New York chess club no longer exists. We do have the Marshall Chess club In Greenwich village which is the main chess club here. They have a very nice statue of frank marshall in there
NYC, LA and TA (tel aviv) are the greatest cities on earth.
Bernhard Riemann LA seemingly less so than the other two
@@LearnWithBahman . That must be a joke. A city infested with homelessness, a bankrupt state and housing so expensive that you must be a millionaire to live there. Pass.
Feel English dude SF homelessness is farrrr worse than NYC or LA
@@MrSupernova111 The bankruptcy of CA is a fiction that, as best I can tell, is propagated because of jealousy. It's fine to prefer somewhere else to SF, but "bankrupt state" is laughably false.
I'm already lovin' the saga
"It is as of move 6 that .."
Me: Yeah yeah, we have a completely new game okay
agad: nope
AgadMator is the world first best youtube chess Channel in history . Thank you ! I really mean it !
This is the best content there is in YT, 167 years old chess tournament!
OMG The Chess Tournament book by Staunton is one of the only chess books my library has!! I have read it like 80 times, so cool to know I was reading the same book as Morphy!!
Been a big fan of yours for a couple of years now, you've taught me so much not only about how to play chess, but also the history of the game and lives of some of the great masters. Thank you, keep it up!
This channel is amazing. I love the background story, I feel like I’m there watching at that very moment in time.
7:11 first move.. agadmator actually was low on time after his very first move 🤣
All the background info really makes the games feel even more dramatic. Thanks for the story and the coverage.
Arbiter/Referee/Judge too?
"welcome to the good stuff" yeeee!! i geeked out so hard i swear i almost started crying..
Even after 2 years of watching this channel the hello everyone in the beginning of the video allways spooks me
Thompson put up one hell of a battle. Didn't appear to give an inch, until there were no more inches to give. He just got suffocated by the art of sacrifice.
Awesome game!! In my opinion Morphy has one of the cleanest chess styles. Looking forward to the rest of the saga.
I am from Romania, I am 68 years old, I am a chess player but not in competition. For me chess is a pleasure, a hobby, but I was coleg and I am friend with a grand master from Romania during my student life between 1972 and 1976 (when I got the licence in mathematics and IT) where I was his sparring partener ! I learn a lot for an amateur and my love for chess grows ! I know about Paul Charles Morphy readind a book from Paul Keres ("The technique of the opening") and I appreciate him as one of the greates combinatorial players of all time ! So your saga is for me very welcome and make my age to be interesting ! At my age I am retired for 3 years and I spend my free time playing or watching chess (I like Morphy, Alehin, Capablanca, Tal, Botvinik, Fisher and others), reading books (1 / day because I learned to quickly read about 100 pages per hour) and watching tennis games (as a Romanian I'm a Simona Halep fan) and women's volleyball (as a Latin I'm a fan of Samantha Bricio from Mexico and I've known her since she played at USC Trojans UCLA) and listening to music (especially Dimash Kudaibergen from Kazakhstan, probably the best vocalist ever you can see him at the Joe Biden inauguration event by Sisters Cities International) ! And I like your comments about chess ! They are very friendly and understandable to chess players and they also have humor, which is a great sign of intelligence for the commentator ! So I very honoured to subscribe to your channel ! I wish you all the best as a man and as a chess player !
Love the Morphy saga and all the games in general. Keep up the high quality videos!
Mahalo for the videos! I came back to chess last year after not playing since childhood. Ironically, I visited New Orleans last May just after starting Chess again, but didn't know of Morphy yet. We are returning to New Orleans next week and am looking forward to spending some time seeing the Morphy house and playing some street chess with him in mind.
I’ve been really busy with life and work lately and missed a lot of your vids, SOOOO very glad I caught this one! Thank you!
"It only takes 5 books to go to a nice tournament"...
With a sarcastic tone hahaha
In today's era, you'll need 5 different engines or even better AI. 😅
My comment was just a light joke on the modern engine era. I would prefer classics over anything, anyday.
You need five books and Morphy's brain
Finally we back to the Saga
Glad to know that, while I may suck at chess, I know more about hat design than agad.
Touché! The 'Mad Hatter' strikes again!
excellent video I like that you give context and made at an anecdotal story with chess games instead of just going through the moves
Ah the sip of water has returned
Hi Agad, I really appreciate the efforts taken for these information. I highly appreciate it.👍
The diagram of the hat 😂😂 dead
You're the greatest Agad hope you're well mate
Thank you Antonio for all the details , I loved it . Good job man👍
“An eye on the brim is dim”.
*grim
It's fun to watch the subscribers slowly grow over time. Crazy that he's at 560k at this point.
yeah, I rewatched a video from a couple of years ago (less than three years ago I think) and he was celebrating 20 thousand subscribers
It's doubled after another year now.
that feeling when you lost a pawn or make a blunder even doe you have 1,5 hour per move👌
Panama hats are made of straw, so the brim could be sharp - especially if you get slashed with it.
This saga is awsome. Loved this video.
Thanks Agad! Very enjoyable!
I can listen to agad all day talking about chess history
I don't even particularly like chess but I'm hooked on your videos.. Very interesting.
Morphy is an excellent teacher, this game is also very instructive to improve the endgame skills
Love your commentary! very informative.
I love the good stuff. There's nothing better.
"This doesn't really work. And here Morphy punishes it accordingly.
So feel free to pause the video and punish Thompson for his insolence!" Haha
Morphy's father was punished for invading the gentelman's in a hat personal space from behind.
that was supposedly his dad's good friend that cut him by mistake as he turned around to say hello. they met at the market by coincidentally as he was not meeting with the gentlemen.
Thank you for the video!
I love the good stuff, in fact i knew that was going to be said because i am an excellent subscriber
Saga continues!!! Great to see...
19:00 I count 17 people ;-)
Just checking who is paying attention :)
agadmator's Chess Channel I’m an excellent subscriber 😂
@@jdfromparis6230 I got 16 but twas a quick count before the pic dissipated (auto spell cha
I counted 16 but it was a quick count before the picture dissipated (auto correct while trying to spell disappeared, but hey, it works :)
I was not expecting that story to go there, gotta love the 19th century
This is what research is all about... Thank you agad
Your content is amazing. Making the world a better and a nice place :) Keep up the great amazing work!
I'm so glad we voted to do a Morphy saga. If anyone in chess history deserves to have their story beautifully told by you, Antonio, it would be THE Paul Morphy!
Yes more details please!
Whenever I feel low from my chess disappointments. I come here to the ’good stuff’ and atleast see someone having a nice sip of their water..
1857, not 1957
Story time...Love these sagas
you do a great preparation for this video
Horrible for Morphy's Dad to die from an eye infection from the brim of a hat.
How nice to get $300 if u beat him, $100 if u don't, just to cover your travel expenses
30 minute limit per move, as Antonio mentioned back in those days, there were no chess clocks!
06:03 List of books Paul Morphy read before going to play in this tournament
James Thompson = founder of New York chess club
08:45 Tactic 1: how to win a pawn
11:14 I would play Qxd4 and go into a Q, Double R ending a pawn up, rather than retreat Bd7 to f5.
14:32 Tactic 2: win another pawn
16:50 Clean Finish
Thank you for the history lesson Antonio
It is quite providential that the First American Chess Congress should happen during the vacant time for the meteoric rise of one of the most brilliant chess geniuses of all time. This was for our benefit, as Paul Morphy's dazzlingly harmonious play is inspirational to this day.
I reaaaaaallly love the story as much as the game
#suggestion
Reposted with suggestion hashtag
So all the vid ideas for you posted in the last few days in on easy place!
(in no Particular order)
1. The Fischer v Spassky rematch
2. A really great Carlsen London System game
3. Kasparov Kramnik 2000, the games Kramnik won
4. A Game of Kramnik destroying the King’s Indian
5. Kasparov v the World
6. Annand Carlsen 2014
7. Vids on Famous Chess Variants - not just 960, maybe Capabalanca Chess, or even Chinese chess or the Original Chatranja.
Love the channel
FINALLY THANKYOUUUU
good stuf.txt is a file on most people have on their HD
I love the agadmator chess channel for the history class #Dope 😘
The secrets to Morphy`s success were his mullet and large doses of morphine.
Love the good stuff
The player with the white pieces must be really good. He got the "Morphy" head for the whole game!
(too good of a comment that I think every video of this saga should have)
I love your channel and u brooooo.
00:00 vast knowledge
06:03 good stuff
06:52 first move
Some information on one of Morphy's books: "La Régence" was the title of a French chess magazine, named after the cafe where famous players met in Paris. Morphy himself played there in 1858-1859. The collection of Lionel Kieseritzky, also a good player, was to be a collection of games like the 50 that can be found here:
books.google.fr/books?id=7CcCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover
For French speakers, on Wikipedia:
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_de_la_R%C3%A9gence
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Kieseritzky
All these videos are awesome, thanks for sharing. Though somehow I’m still losing to the computer. Smh
The good stuff indeed!!!
Yes! Finally?
From move 29 onwards Morphy played almost like a modern engine: endgame genius, like Capablanca.
agadmator, just so you know, you are the greatest
Morphy received a Morphy head right from the beginning. Agad didn't even wait for him to punish d5.
Loved it!!!
Best RUclipsr ever
Two things: I do not think the New York Chess Club exists, perhaps merged with Manhattan Chess Club or Marshall -- I do not think it has existed for a long time. As to Morphy's dad dying from a slight cut on the eye: Yes, before Penicillin infections of various sorts could be very serious -- syphilis was about as bad a disease as one could imagine but suddenly it could be cured rapidly -- today it would almost be like a cure for death. Coincidentally, I think one of the first famous uses of Penicillin involved a cut on the eye and I would guess infections close to the brain were more dangerous than other locations where perhaps amputation was an option. Here is the sad story of an early patient, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Alexander_(police_officer) who died from a cut almost a century after Alonzo Morphy.
9:37 Now the knight isn't really pinned.. but kind of is :D
5:16 All of the opponents were chosen randomly.
Okay you were going to be paired against Shakespeare.
Board 2, you will be playing against Gengis Khan, we know he's dead but do your best.
I'd hate to play a dead man with that time control
even from beyond the grave, genghis would triumph globally.
Felt it when Radiç said "it is as of this move that this position was never reached again"
It was as of that moment that we have a completely new variation of "it is as of this move..." ;-)
Are you sure it's 1957 Agad?
Why not take the b2 pawn at 13:52 or even at 15:20 (after Rd2 check)?
Proud to have the Bishop takes b4 move! Totally missed the earlier Bb5 though.
#suggestion
Hey agadmator, big fan of you. Can you please show a game of Laszlo Szabo.
Laszlo Szabo vs Karoly Honfi, 1950
Laszlo Szabo vs Nikola Padevsky , 1972
It would be such a treat for us who likes old stuff. Big fan of yours.
Perhaps SSSR got an idea for "Bulgarian umbrella" from this case of death caused by the hat. (I played this video backward several times, and still didn't understand what the injury was: "cut his eye... not serious but got badly infected..."?! Anyway(s), at 11:58 Black could have tried ...Rh4, and if White takes gxh4, he is check.mated ...Bxh2#. Of course, White has simple Nxc6 and he wins. No, back to some game from Fischer's saga - Antonio showed a photo of Fischer during a game from La Habana tournament in 1965 (when Bora Ivkov famously ruined "already won first place") and Antonio said "probably from that tournament" - but Fischer had played this La Habana tournament from Marshall chess club in NY via teleprinter, since he didn't get the visa. The photo was most certainly made in La Habana next year, 1966, during Chess Olympiad in which Fischer did participate and re-launched Lasker's exchange variation of Ruy Lopez by three spectacular wins on 1st board for US team. Regarding the opening, Fischer in this variation almost always played 5. Nb5, and only after his articles in Boys' Life it became known that Paulsen variation in which Fischer scored so many wins had been played by Morphy and even Andersen.
I didn't know that a rook's final form was a pig.
You learn something every day.