Say Morphy time travels to today's society and enters into a chess tournament where he plays against a number of GMs, IMs and Masters. How would he do? I would like to consider a few scenarios:
Scenario 1: Morphy is given one year prep time to catch up (including training with top current players) before entering tournament.
Scenario 2: Morphy has no prep time, but his opponents cannot tell who he is.
Scenario 3: No catch up time; his opponents can recognize Morphy at the beginning of the tournament but no opportunity to study his games / prep against him specifically.
Scenario 4: Morphy has no catch up time; his opponents not only know who they are up against, but have 2 months to prepare and study his games before tournament (very unfair odds, I know).
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Say Morphy time travels to today's society and enters into a chess tournament where he plays against a number of GMs, IMs and Masters. How would he do? I would like to consider a few scenarios:
Scenario 1: Morphy is given one year prep time to catch up (including training with top current players) before entering tournament.
Scenario 2: Morphy has no prep time, but his opponents cannot tell who he is.
Scenario 3: No catch up time; his opponents can recognize Morphy at the beginning of the tournament but no opportunity to study his games / prep against him specifically.
Scenario 4: Morphy has no catch up time; his opponents not only know who they are up against, but have 2 months to prepare and study his games before tournament (very unfair odds, I know).