Alekhine Vs Morphy

who will win?
 

No.

huh

Cristiano ronaldo 

Alekhine, no doubt.

sure??
 

morphy, is there any doubt. He will crush

haha

Morphy... If they played just ONE game Alekhine wins, but if they played "lets say" 21 games morphy would figure his opp out and win... U all seem to forget how phenominal morphy was... Like Fischer said "Morphy was the greatest chess player of all time"... U all also said morphy had no great players to play against.. U forget anderssen, bird, horrwitz, lowenthal, paulsen and the fact that staunton avoided playing morphy out of fear and that anderssen played both morphy and steinitz and said morphy would win that game on his worst day and steinitz' best day

"Lasker ... didn't understand positional chess." - another Fischer quote from around the same time as his Morphy comments.
Extended discussions of Morphy have been written in books by GM Franco, GM Beim, GM Ward, GM Marin, GM Bo Hansen, GM McDonald, Garry Kasparov (with Dmitry Plisetsky), and GM Gormally. Anyone see any of them express the view that we should accept Fischer's conclusion about Morphy? There seems to be general agreement that Morphy was, as GM Fine put it, one of the giants of chess history, but that is a long way from saying that he was better than any subsequent players.
https://www.chess.com/article/view/who-was-the-best-world-chess-champion-in-history
"... Morphy became to millions ... the greatest chess master of all time. But if we examine Morphy's record and games critically, we cannot justify such extravaganza. And we are compelled to speak of it as the Morphy myth. ... [Of the 55 tournament and match games, few] can by any stretch be called brilliant. ... He could combine as well as anybody, but he also knew under what circumstances combinations were possible - and in that respect he was twenty years ahead of his time. ... [Morphy's] real abilities were hardly able to be tested. ... We do not see sustained masterpieces; rather flashes of genius. The titanic struggles of the kind we see today [Morphy] could not produce because he lacked the opposition. ... Anderssen could attack brilliantly but had an inadequate understanding of its positional basis. Morphy knew not only how to attack but also when - and that is why he won. ... Even if the myth has been destroyed, Morphy remains one of the giants of chess history. ..." - GM Reuben Fine (in a book that discussed such players as Anderssen, Bird, Horrwitz, Loewenthal, Paulsen, and Staunton)
It is perhaps worthwhile to keep in mind that, in 1858, the chess world was so amazingly primitive that players still thought tournaments were a pretty neat idea.

By the way, Andrssen had been dead for years when Steinitz was recognized as world champion.