One can also read: Paul Morphy's Queen Sacrifices
Chess Brilliancies
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Apr 26, 2021
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Lol some scroll ! 😂
Apr 26, 2021
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Unusual to see a game by Loyd! Usually it's his compositions that get attention.
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Apr 26, 2021
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It's garbage like yours that makes the forums pointless.
Apr 26, 2021
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Wow, how much work did you put into this??? I'm not going to have time to even go through all the games. Also how many such "compilations" were made at the time? Were they extremely rare due to the work necessary?
Apr 26, 2021
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Nice work batgirl! That's some cool chess history and a lost of games.
Really great chess history! I agree, marksimo06...a lot of great games that you revised!
Apr 26, 2021
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Interesting post, Batgirl! Will go through everything in the morning.
All one has to do is comeback to this thread every day and memorize one of these mesmerizing games
Wow. Batgirl I loved all the games. Thank you
Apr 27, 2021
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Nice post. I grew up on the heels of Fischer's greatness, He was particularly inspiring to those who lived in the 50s-70s, myself included. I didn't find Morphy until I was a bit older, partially as a consequence of Fischer's deserved contemporaneous notoriety I would imagine. Without taking anything from Fischer, I've grown to consider Morphy perhaps the greatest who lived. It's few who have come close to replicating his surreptitious style in my opinion. Morphy played as sacrificially as many played powerfully. Certainly entertaining to say the least. The Lasker, Zukertort, and Capablanca games in the post were particularly nice as well. Thanks for posting.
(re-issued from my blog)
Percy Wenman (1892-1972) was born in England. In 1911 he moved to Scotland where he married Elizabeth Thompson, had a son, Marcus Heathcote and a daughter Alice Elizabeth and started his amateur chess career. He won the Scottish Chess Championship in 1920.
Besides his skill pushing pieces he was also an author/editor of many books mainly compilations of games and puzzles.
Unfortunately, his legacy has been marred by instances of plagiarism of chess compositions:
Hooper and Whyld in "Oxford Companion to Chess"
One Hundred and Seventy Five Chess Brilliancies, however, is a somewhat remarkable book.
The games are lightly annotated and little, if any, information is given about them.
I took the liberty of selecting a handful of these games for their entertainment value.
Today we can go to a digital database, search for a game and play through it all in a matter of minutes. In the pre-computer era games arrived in books, magazines and newspapers. One first had to set up a board, then painstakingly, hopefully error-free, play through each move by following the notation. It was a much more intimate and time-consuming process than what we are used to. People who prepared compilations had their own set of hurdles. Finding, comparing, judging and selecting games was an involved and tedious job but when completed, gave the student of the game something of great worth that was difficult to find elsewhere at the time. Therein lies the "remarkable."