Sacrifices Win A Game (A Morphy Masterpiece)

Submitted by chessowns on Tue, 02/17/2009 at 4:33pm.

Paul Morphy. Possibly the greatest player alive, and equal to Fischer in my standards. He was announced as the unofficial World Champion by many, and he faced notable figures, although he never played against Howard Staunton (it is believed Staunton was afraid). The game I will be showing today shows the power of pawns and sacrifice. Yes, it is a signature KGA, or King's Gambit Accepted. It shows the pure tactical power of Morphy, and is a Morphy Masterpiece.

EDITT:: Mistake of the date. It is actually 1856. Sorry guys, I was tired... :P

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by demetrios18 - 8 months ago
new york United States

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MORPHY!!!!!!!!! I love morphy because he has my style which is make sacrifices that gain in position, and tempo. In this game shown here, the kings gambit was made not to gain position, but to gain tempo. Once white has developed all his tempo, his queen can battle for position and press checkmate and if black cant defend it , well then its checkmate.

by tito61 - 9 months ago
klamath falls oregon United States

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that's just awesome !!

by anuj_manerikar - 9 months ago
Pune India

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excellent game

a master of sacrifices

by zekiel - 9 months ago
Connecticut United States

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morphy's the person to sacrifice!

by chessowns - 9 months ago
Saskatoon Canada

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BTW, I'm making a Kings Gambit Accepted series with Morphy playing, White and Black for fun and to be instructive in the King's Gambit Accepted. Not only that, but annotating increases skillz and then I'll be doing Italian Game :D he does bold sacrifices as white.

by chessowns - 9 months ago
Saskatoon Canada

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I know! :P They don't know his full name on chessgames.com, so yeah. Rank-n-File and Blodworth, I did make a mistake. And there actually is another Morphy who plays chess. Alonzo Morphy, his father :P

by Wil_Bloodworth - 9 months ago
Dallas, Texas United States

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That's awesome! I, for some reason, thought Morphy was a lot older than he was... meaning I thought he lived in the 1800s.

EDIT: Wait... is there another Morphy? Paul Morphy died in 1884...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Morphy

by woodencardboard - 9 months ago
Missouri United States

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hahaha, a knight?! A. Knight? this game is acrophycal, methinks.

by Rank-n-File_Warrior - 9 months ago
Idaho United States

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Thank you for posting another fine example of Morphy's creative originality - but wasn't this game played in 1856, rather than 1956? Morphy was born in 1837 and moved on in 1884.

by chessowns - 9 months ago
Saskatoon Canada

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I know! Too bad that Morphy didn't play in his later years... he would have given us so mant more great games.