Chess Brilliancies

If I understand you right, you're saying the game posted on #40 is not Paul Morphy vs. Charles Le Carpentier, but rather (possibly) Ernest vs. Joseph Le Carpentier?

In making the Morphy pgn, we examined each game for potential errors, such as what you describe.  With this game we found nothing to indicate it as being anything other than it's portrayed.  Now I'm curious. What is the evidence for this?

I'm pretty sure cgs simply misunderstood that ?'s are placeholders for the pgn field where ratings go -- the participants being obviously unrated. There's no question about the players in that game -- none I know of.

Csaba,

Thanks.

In the Addendum to Paul Morphy and the Evolution of Chess, Macon Shibut wrote:
"It turns out that Lawson had unearthed some additional unpublished or forgotten games that, for whatever reason, he omited from hs book.  However,  he presented them in the August 1978 and September 1979 issues of The British Chess Magazine.  subsequently, some of these games were reprinted elsewhere, but I remained ignorant off all but about a dozen until the BCM articles were called to my attention in the wake of my book's publication. "

I don't have a copy of Shibut's book to check, but we have the game sourced as "Shibut - Game A02"

I'd be curious to know if we made some mistake.

John Cazenove (1788-1879)  was the son of a Genevese merchant who migrated to London.  He published, anonymously, some pamplets on economics, such as "Principles of Political Economy" and also published a now-rare chess book entitled "A selection of curious and entertaining games at Chess"  in 1817. Cazenove was also president of the London Chess Club for a time.

Here, Cazenove lets us witness a brilliant Queen sacrifice in a King's Gambit miniature.

Playing through the game, I thought of the queen sac, but didn't see the follow through -- 21.Ng5 is check and covers h7, very nice.

These players are no holds barred, they really come at their opponents.  Interesting games.

This posting concentrates on brilliancies in the Muzio Gambit (1. e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5.0-0) in which White gambits an entire Knight (or a Knight and a Bishop in a Double Muzio) right in the opening.

Here Janowski starts off minus a knight and then plays the Muzio!

These next wo brilliancies came from the 6th American Chess Congress on 1889. In both games the players who lost are playing White.

In this game, William Henry Kraus Pollock defeats Max Weiss

George Hatfeild Gossip beats Jackson Whipps Showalter-

If anyone carried Morphy's torch, it was Joseph Blackburne.  Like Morphy, Blackburne seemed to play even more sparkling chess when at odds or blindfolded.

The first game comes from a blindfold simul in 1875.

This bit of brilliancy is from 1873 Vienna

The Berlin Congress of gave us this little jewel

Blackburne had only been playing for 2 years when he conjured this bit of magic.

The quality of this thread stands in marked contrast to the norm today.

Exactly.

Hogwash.

Bobby Fischer also commented on Morphy's chess that it was "Brilliant."

Going along with the theoretical leap chess has made since, Morphy would shine even in this day and age.