Just took a quick look at Morphy Opera game. Just one word comes to mind in describing it - "beautiful".
But it appears to me - both Byrne and Duke Karl got cooked because they left their Kings exposed and uncastled.
Fischer's "Game of the Century"
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Aug 9, 2014
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#23
MeTristan wrote:
http://www.chess.com/games/view?id=75289
This is chess.com's version.
Great. Thanks!
Aug 9, 2014
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#25
No. Looks like I've got some fun passtimes coming up...thanx blueemu
I just got started playing chess again after a super long hiatus....could say that I played chess one entire year my whole life...when I was 14 y.o....and haven't played since....so not up on a lot of stuff
Aug 9, 2014
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#26
Yeah, I used to play in OTB tournaments more than 20 years ago. I was doing pretty well... Atlantic Open champion in the late '70s, Atlantic Closed champion in the early '80s, a draw (in a simultaneous exhibition game) against Tal in '88. Stopped playing when I got a job making children's cartoons for international TV. Started again last August (one year ago).
Here's a looooooooooong story about how I screwed up my career in cartoons:
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/off-topic/my-big-break-in-show-business-and-how-i-broke-it
Aug 9, 2014
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#27
It actually would be very fun if we could have re-play tournaments of famous GM games....You know, like "Game of the Century" replay tournament = the board opens where Fischer just made the famous Na4 move.
THAT would be interesting. Unrelated, will the World Championship this November be televised?
the most recent famous game that comes to mind is cheater_1 vs chess.com. look it up.. it was epic.
Aug 13, 2014
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#30
BlackLeopard-1 wrote:
I dont know. This is the first time I've heard of the game...and I'm curious.
I don't know enough about it to say one way or the other - how exhaustively it's been analyzed, that is. So for me it is just a "fresh" challenge. My question - would a "Houdini chess player" have been able to upend this game at any point after Fischer's -> 11. Na4 ?
Maybe, I'll read those analysis later...when I've time.
That is funny. When I asked if a "Houdini chess player" could turn the game around, I was referring to a human being GM who knows how to get out of tight spots....I didn't know there was a chess engine called Houdini !
I just found this out now because of all this talk about cheaters using "chess engines"...didn't even know that there were such things.
So how would you know when someone is cheating with a chess engine?
You don't. Supposedly chess.com's computers detect is a move played is something an engine would do, and if many moves in the sequence are like that for multiple games, chess.com goes a-huntin', and finds the cheater. He/she is never seen or heard from again - at least not on chess.com.
Well their avatar during the crime isn't at least. (seen or heard of again) :)
Aug 13, 2014
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#33
Am thinking telltale signs could be:
A low level rated player whose been losing to < 1100 rated players all of a sudden outplaying players rated much higher that himself?
A person whose rating remains < 1400 after having played more than a thousand games all of a sudden beating > 1600 player?
http://www.chess.com/games/view?id=75289
This is chess.com's version.