Capablanca, he has decades of knowledge on him. Capablanca also had an incredible grasp of endgame understanding!
morphy vs Capablanca
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Mar 13, 2014
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Capa. But I'll bet Morphy would have his moments.. One careless move and anybody could lose to Morphy.
Mar 13, 2014
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but he couldn't play the complex positions Morphy would play in, Alekhine and Morphy IMO were at the same combinative ability, and Positionally speaking Morphy was akin To Steinitz. So I think Morphy would have a small margine of victory, nothing akin to the Massive Destruction Steinitz would endure against Morphy. It would be close, but I think Morphy would win, I think Botvinik would be the first WC who would most likely defeat morphy in a match. A few others would have their hands full even Kasparov, but the more positional, the more likely they would have a shot to defeat Morphy in match play.
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5 votes for capa 1 vote for morphy
6 capa 1 morphy
Mar 15, 2014
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Estragon wrote:
Of course Capablanca would win easily. Morphy played very casually and made many tactical errors, he was just too far advanced over his peers for it to matter, he understood the game more deeply than any of them.
Capablanca had the benefit of the advances Morphy made, and also those of Steinitz and Lasker. It wouldn't be a fair fight, any more than putting Capa against Fischer or Karpov or Carlsen would be.
I will beg to differ on the many tactical errors simply because when plugging morphys games into a computer, the sharper the position, the better his moves get
tkbunny wrote:
capa will surely get the ladies
But, Morphy would get the ladie's shoes.
rdecredico wrote:
jetfighter13 wrote:
but he couldn't play the complex positions Morphy would play in, Alekhine and Morphy IMO were at the same combinative ability, and Positionally speaking Morphy was akin To Steinitz. So I think Morphy would have a small margine of victory, nothing akin to the Massive Destruction Steinitz would endure against Morphy. It would be close, but I think Morphy would win, I think Botvinik would be the first WC who would most likely defeat morphy in a match. A few others would have their hands full even Kasparov, but the more positional, the more likely they would have a shot to defeat Morphy in match play.
Each successive generation would give the previous generation a beat down.
To think otherwise is to pretend there is no progress or advancement in the game, and that is demonstrably not the case.
I think this is obvious, but its oddly a minority viewpoint around here.
Ubik42 wrote:
tkbunny wrote:
capa will surely get the ladies
But, Morphy would get the ladie's shoes.
No the face
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Jan 1, 2021
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Ben_Dubuque wrote:
but he couldn't play the complex positions Morphy would play in...
The problem with that idea is that Capablanca WOULDN'T play the sort of complex positions that Morphy liked. Capa would deliberately suck all the dynamicism out of the positions, and beat morphy senseless in dry, technical positions.
Nice
Paul Morphy
Jun 18, 2021
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#19
We don't know what Morphy was capable of. He was so much better than everyone then we've never seen his limits
Jun 18, 2021
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marqumax wrote:
We don't know what Morphy was capable of. He was so much better than everyone then we've never seen his limits
Yes, one problem with being THAT far ahead of your rivals is that you never really get the chance to show your full potential. Nobody tests it! Fischer was arguably a similar case.
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