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We're going to see the famous opera again, this was played by Paul Morphy in an opera house in Paris
during Bellini's opera, Norma.
So it's between the American Chessman for Paul Morphy.
And these are highly abbreviated names.
I'm going to tell you the German Nobel Duco and also count is what, a French aristocrat.
So here Paul Morphy is playing EFORE we see five.
So they're both in consultation.
Paul Morphy wants to win as quickly as possible to just watch the opera.
We've seen the Afri.
OK, so not the king's gambit on this occasion.
Desex.
So this is the Philidor defense.
It sometimes can be a bit passive.
This is a very good move against the form we see Bishop G4.
This is not a particularly good idea to spend this night.
We see details and already planning has to concede.
The late Squire Bishop, we see Bishop Zafrin.
So if doesn't concede the line square bishop, then whites of the detainees can take the queen off and
then 1965 winds up on and most sensible at that.
So with the square bishop removed, this line is quite bishop without a counterpoint is far more dangerous.
All the line squares in Black's camp are basically highlighted already with this amazing asset we see.
Thanks Bishop C for pointing out F7 rather brutally.
So what does Black do?
Black plays in light of sex, but now queen bee free renews f7 attack and also Bisa.
We see Queen Asudden and Paul Morphy.
Yeah, he could take this poem but he wants to watch the opera.
He doesn't want a long, drawn out game of the Queen before chac taking the queens off.
He wants the queens kept in the position and there's is also something terrible often that kept the
queens on and tell the parents to try and get the wings off so that that was echoed throughout the history
of attacking players, try and get their queens off.
But anyway, poor Morphy sidesteps for a moment.
Might see free if they try clean beforehand in a special place.
F7 we see sex bishop J5.
And Paul Morphy hasn't committed routinely to Kosslyn Kingside, he's now got two options he can actually
counsel Queen Side or Kingside we see five to try and get that bishop away because otherwise, Plax
in a kind of zugzwang almost because 97 that would block B seven, you know, one could take on B seven.
So this is a very tricky position indeed.
And if G.S. there is the option of taking and then taking here.
So we see this, it's kind of an irritating position.
So they might be five.
But Polymorph, he recognizes, you know, there's a downside, a major downside of Black's position,
the Kingston Center.
So guess what?
He plays in this position.
If I give you five seconds to pause for the.
OK, night, Saxbe five.
OK, thanks, Bishop, tax refund check might be the seventh.
This is an absolute pin and sometimes we just want to celebrate those absolute pins.
We want to intensify the pressure and pull more.
If he does that and cancels at the same time, he calls his queen side the rookies automatically by
default, adding pressure to the seven we see wrote the end.
Now here, Paul Morphy plays an absolutely stunning combination.
Black has a downside.
That Black has a lack of development is that the issue is, well, there's multiple issues.
The king still in the center.
So this is, you know, quite brutal pin and an absolute pin.
This shouldn't be the case.
Usually White's pieces are all mobilized.
They're all out of the box.
They're working together quite well.
And in fact, the pin can be celebrated even in a greater manner here by getting rid of some defensive
capability.
Blackies, in a way, playing two pieces down here.
These these pieces just not actively involved.
And the membership has no counterpart.
So black is fundamentally weak on white squares like these seven here.
So guess what?
Paul Morphy plays in this position, which also helps bring this rock to bear on seven way whilst reducing
Black's defensive capabilities of D seven.
So this is achieving this next wave achieves a great superiority of force on the D7 square, truly celebrating
that bishop.
Well, our counterpart on the line squares.
So here, if I give you five seconds pause video, what would you play with?
White.
OK.
Paul Morphy plays Route 27 now for Nine Takes, we're going to take the queen, so Route 67 is virtually
forced.
So it's the book now which comes on the great Scrooge thing, and this is where it comes into the game.
Meanwhile, these these pieces just can't help.
The situation desperately offers the exchange of queens, but now Paul Morphy finds a very swift, beautiful
combination.
He plays Bishop 67 check of the 1967.
Guess what, there's an absolutely beautiful move played in this position.
If I give you five seconds pause video, can you find that?
OK, shackle checks, check all the killer common squares, that's the golden ingredient even in these
iconic games, you know, prioritizing your forcing moves.
And you come close to find out or find that Quamby achak, it creates a kind of weakness of the last
move that liberates this rook is right now the view on day eight that it didn't have before.
So Rhodia is actually checkmate.
Now kill a common square emerged and Polwarth, it could get on and watch the opera.
After swiftly crushing his opponents, so we learn a lot of things from Paul Morphy games in general,
rapid developments, King's safety, the powerful thing moves the importance of exploiting spectator
pieces before the opponent unravels.
Also, the more subtle things which are highlighted to me through even like the more the new network
games, when bishop the bishop was given up, you know, this bishop without a counterpart, if you
have a bishop accountable, that could be a huge advantage.
All the celebrations happening, if you look at the frats, run light squares in this game, f7 be 77
later if you look.
And that's not emphasized by many commentators.
But for me, you know, light square better than light squares.
Yeah.
They're being celebrated as well as that pen that's been hugely said right now, spectator pieces and
the crushing finish.
So there are many games of pool Morphy which will emphasize the importance of rapid developments, central
control, King's safety and all sorts of other major concepts.
You can for free.
You can check out chess games.
Come, for example, go to the Paul Morphy page.
Just Google, you know, Paul Morphy chess games.
Come and just have a look at his key, you know, games and study them, because actually you might
think, hold on.
Keynes question, why?
Why not study the modern grandmasters instead?
Well, sometimes you want a simplified kind of model to work with experiment without all the complexity
of layers of complexity which might be relevant and in the game to the old Masters because because of
the technology at the time.
And there wasn't chess computers and there was less opening theory, you haven't got the layers of complexity
of very heavily analyzed opening theory.
It's more more about their own minds and creativity and ingenuity, craftsmanship.
Resourcefulness.
Stripped bare without all this having to, you know, check things with advanced computers.
So he can play like this just an improvised way and there's tons of games, he's just crushed opponents,
you know, tactically they're worth checking out.
They're much simpler to understand basically the more than Grandmont the games.
These games, historical games, capture culture and history at a time, you know, less communication
resources, less ascensions, less technology generally.
OK, so we have these more simple games to understand, OK?
And so much.