Paul Morphy vs Ruy Lopez

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1Nh31-0

Who would win in a fantactic Game? Tell me who would win.

KnightOfTheLivinDead

Easily Morphy ! :)

Ruy Lopez was primarily an "organiser of information",

but Morphy was a chess "juggernaut", called the greatest player in chess history by such luminaries as Adolf Anderssen.

garfield92037

EYE HAVE NO IDEA!!!! u tell me!

1Nh31-0

come on  garfield92037 you know.DUH

JogoReal

Ruy Lopez was rated something like 1850 Elo while Paul Morphy was something like a 2500 Elo. So you could expect Ruy Lopez to lose almost every single game they played.

eaguiraud

Ruy Lopez moved the bishop to b5 to threaten to "win" a pawn, that was his explanation, so try to figure out his rating based on that.

batgirl

Paul C. Morphy played the Ruy Lopez.  Ruy Lopez never played the Paul Morphy.

macer75
eaguiraud wrote:

Ruy Lopez moved the bishop to b5 to threaten to "win" a pawn, that was his explanation, so try to figure out his rating based on that.

Well, that is the thing you have to pay attention to when first studying the Ruy Lopez as a beginner - the threat of BxN, and then Nxe5. For him to see that hundreds of years ago, before anyone else (to our knowledge) took note of it is nothing short of visionary.

batgirl

The moves of the Ruy Lopez were known and recorded nearly three quarters of a century the Spanish priest published anything.  The exchange doesn't win a pawn anyway, but it does affect black's pawn structure by doubling pawns on the c file.

garfield92037
 

 

garfield92037

Did not mean.

garfield92037

Vince, call me by real name.

 

1Nh31-0

JogoReal! All openings are named after a grandmaster or a country. So Ruy Lopez had to be a grandmaster.

urk
If Morphy was tied up, blindfolded, and had whiskey poured down his throat then perhaps old Ruy Lopez could score a couple of games from a match.
1Nh31-0

True!!!!

blueemu
VincentRoberts wrote:

All openings are named after a grandmaster or a country. So Ruy Lopez had to be a grandmaster.

I can't wait to see GM Orangutan play GM Fried Liver in the Candidates!

1Nh31-0
#18
VincentRoberts wrote:

All openings are named after a grandmaster or a country. So Ruy Lopez had to be a grandmaster.

I can't wait to see GM Orangutan play GM Fried Liver in the Candidates!

 

Well there are some exceptions but you were using the openings actually named by a grand master. You can search up Ruy Lopez and find him.

1Nh31-0

And he is not a country!

1Nh31-0

To search him search up Ruy López de Segura

Cubronzo_old

VincentRoberts wrote:

#18
VincentRoberts wrote:

All openings are named after a grandmaster or a country. So Ruy Lopez had to be a grandmaster.

I can't wait to see GM Orangutan play GM Fried Liver in the Candidates!

 

Well there are some exceptions but you were using the openings actually named by a grand master. You can search up Ruy Lopez and find him.

Yesterday I heard that Hippopotamus Sodium beat Caruana in the Tournaments by a three point margin