Could you beat Morphy if he gave you knight odds?

Did you read what I wrote?

I did. Waiting for him.

Sure it's a blunt way to put it but it's true. You spend most of the time trying to make your plans work without allowing tactical chances to ruin your games. I mean seriously Reb, were you really playing the most accurate moves and winning because of that when you were an A-class player or were your moves just better than your opponents'? 

But to become a titled player it wasn't good enough to have "good ideas" anymore. You had to learn to be more accurate and really learn chess. That's just not what everyone else is doing. We try surely but we are not titled for more reasons than one. 

He also said "Best by test." That was never proven to be correct.

Iconoclastic lemmings blindly follow.

There is a handicap tournament this weekend (Newcastle au.) and a difference of 300+ is worth a knight, with and without the move. [Time limit is 15 mins (?) and moves need to be recorded (?).]

Simpleton's question.  

There I fixed it for you.  

Look at your rating and ask yourself how you could possibly beat Morphy with a mere knight odds.  Chances are he'd gut you like a fish and half his pieces would still be on their original squares.

Give me King odds (?)

Also, he gets 20 seconds for the entire game and I get infinite time. Then I can beat him.

Well we don't have a certain answer that we can have a win with knight up'' but with Queen up it is impossible for any GM of any era to win the contest.

No you couldn't - you wouldn't be able to checkmate him.

Ha. Good point.

Isn't winning on time a victory?

But would the absence of a king to checkmate count as a form of insufficent mating material (no amount of material can checkmate a king that doesn't exist) ?

Was Fischer a nice person

Yes and no.

person - yes

nice - no

TROLL ALERT !!!!

Who couldn't beat Morphy with knight odds is my question.

Many people.

You.