‘Pierre Morra of Nice (not to be confused with other equally well known, or little known, players of the same surname) wrote several articles and a booklet about the opening (c 1950) and gave it his name. Then W. Korn of MCO and J. Wallis of South Africa wrote articles on it. A. Hildebrand of Sweden wrote a booklet on it and Harry Evans of USA (not to be confused with Larry) filled half every issue of The Chess Correspondent from October 1964 to July 1965 with analysis of it. It has been played in important tourneys in the USSR and Fischer has played it without harm to himself against Korchnoi.
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I feel that u needta strive to become a grandpatzer. Dr. Colby says a GP makes mistakes, but doesnt blunder. thats about U-2200 or so he defines.
and anyone who knows anything about psychology ?....knows him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Colby
here's one that fits this spool as u read about him....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srpwqf2MWAw
Who was Morra anyway?
Apparently it's not easy to find info about him, but I dunno. This only has a few sentences about him.
https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-smith-morra-gambit-a-history