What's your Morphy Number? - Chess Forums - Page 3

captainbob

Oct 12, 2010

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#41

goldendog wrote:

captainbob wrote:

Whats a Morphy number?

I'm so busy I barely have time to read what I type, much less others.

No, seriously, I dont know.

Elroch

Oct 12, 2010

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#42

Trulte wrote:

My Morphy number is at highest a 6.

Living in Denmark, most older players than me have played Bent Larsen at some point, and he is a 4.

But the most certain way is that I have played (and beaten!) Magnus Carlsen in a tournament game, who has at least played Nigel Short from the 4-list.

I wonder if that might be a winning 6-score? Has Magnus ever beaten Short? And have Short beaten someone on the 3 list? And aaaaall the way back to Morphy? That could be fun to know!

As far as I know, Carlsen has beaten Short on just one occcasion. They have rarely played. [23. ... g5 and 24. ... a6 make no sense to me in this game]

kenneth67

Oct 12, 2010

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#43

captainbob wrote:

goldendog wrote:

captainbob wrote:

Whats a Morphy number?

I'm so busy I barely have time to read what I type, much less others.

No, seriously, I dont know.

it's the number of players in a chain leading back to Morphy himself. Surely the continuity of this thread's comments makes that clear(?).

captainbob

Oct 12, 2010

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#44

It is now. Thanks for the reply.

trysts

Oct 12, 2010

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#45

Trulte wrote:

My Morphy number is at highest a 6.

Living in Denmark, most older players than me have played Bent Larsen at some point, and he is a 4.

But the most certain way is that I have played (and beaten!) Magnus Carlsen in a tournament game, who has at least played Nigel Short from the 4-list.

I wonder if that might be a winning 6-score? Has Magnus ever beaten Short? And have Short beaten someone on the 3 list? And aaaaall the way back to Morphy? That could be fun to know!

Wow! You beat Carlsen! Would you ever post the game in the forums?

kenneth67

Oct 12, 2010

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#46

captainbob wrote:

It is now. Thanks for the reply.

No problem captain.

Wow, Trulte, tell us more! How did he take the loss? (to a 'girl' as well)!!

Trulte

Oct 12, 2010

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#47

Cool, Carlsen has beaten Short, so I just need to find out if Short has beaten anyone with a lower number than he has ;)

I will start a new thread just not to "pollute" this thread with my story ;)

aansel

Oct 12, 2010

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#48

I guess 4 as I have played Bisguier several times.

polydiatonic

Oct 12, 2010

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#49

Crazychessplaya wrote:

My Morphy number is 6. I played Iweta Rajlich (Radziewicz) who played Pia Cramling who played Bent Larsen, whose Morphy number is 3.

4?

I've played GM Edmar Mednis who played Bent Larson, so I think that gives me a Morphy # of 4. Is that right?

Gil-Gandel

Oct 12, 2010

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#50

Heh. My sister worked at the hotel where the Soviet team stayed in Bath 1973, so she met Tal, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Spassky and Petrosian. And I think Botvinnik played Capa who must in his turn have had a Morphy number of 2... which would make mine 5 if you only count face-to-face meetings instead of playing.

rigamagician

Oct 12, 2010

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#51

polydiatonic wrote:

Crazychessplaya wrote:

My Morphy number is 6. I played Iweta Rajlich (Radziewicz) who played Pia Cramling who played Bent Larsen, whose Morphy number is 3.

4?

I've played GM Edmar Mednis who played Bent Larson, so I think that gives me a Morphy # of 4. Is that right?

Larsen was a 3 according to Frederick Rhine via Mortimer and O. Bernstein, so Mednis would be a 4 and you a 5.

rigamagician

Oct 12, 2010

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#52

Gil-Gandel wrote:

Heh. My sister worked at the hotel where the Soviet team stayed in Bath 1973, so she met Tal, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Spassky and Petrosian. And I think Botvinnik played Capa who must in his turn have had a Morphy number of 2... which would make mine 5 if you only count face-to-face meetings instead of playing.

According to Taylor Kingston, Capa was a 3 via Burn, Janowski, Maroczy, Schlechter, Tarrasch, Teichmann et al, who were all 2's. By 1973, Botvinnik had been retired for several years, so was he there as coach?

rigamagician

Oct 12, 2010

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#53

Fezzik wrote:

Or, I have played Dmitry Gurevich who played Viktor Korchnoi who played Geza Maroczy who played Bird who played Morphy.

Korchnoi played Maroczy after the latter had died, so I'm not sure if that counts.

Conquistador

Oct 12, 2010

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#54

I played Ben Finegold, who played Boris Gelfand, so I have a Morphy number of 7.

rrrttt

Jun 29, 2011

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#55

ivandh wrote:

I played NN who played Morphy

Me too

But logically,

I played a chess instructor who played Bisguier who played Tartakower who played Mortimer who played Morphy.

so 6 for me.

waffllemaster

Jun 29, 2011

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#56

Elroch wrote:

Trulte wrote:

My Morphy number is at highest a 6.

Living in Denmark, most older players than me have played Bent Larsen at some point, and he is a 4.

But the most certain way is that I have played (and beaten!) Magnus Carlsen in a tournament game, who has at least played Nigel Short from the 4-list.

I wonder if that might be a winning 6-score? Has Magnus ever beaten Short? And have Short beaten someone on the 3 list? And aaaaall the way back to Morphy? That could be fun to know!

As far as I know, Carlsen has beaten Short on just one occcasion. They have rarely played. [23. ... g5 and 24. ... a6 make no sense to me in this game]

Neat game, I kind of prefer black after move 15 or so... and still at move 20... but then somehow it's more = and then something goes wrong and black's losing somehow :p Maybe it was a6. You said g5 is rarely played? How deep does this book line go?

DonnieDarko1980

Jun 29, 2011

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#57

My Morphy Nr. has to be 8 ... I played a local WFM (at a simul, if these don't count, I have no Morphy Nr. :), she (7) played the daughter (6) of Arthur Yusupov in several youth tournaments when she was U18, who will certainly have played her father, and Yusupov has 5 according to Wikipedia :)

Momadu

Jun 29, 2011

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#58

Mine is a 6 for tourney games.

raul72

Jun 30, 2011

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#59

Reshevesky, Lasker, Bird, Morphy.

SimonSeirup

Jun 30, 2011

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#60

Hmm...

One of my friend once played Peter Svidler in Copenhagen Open blitz tournement. So my number is 7 or lower.

But I once played a tournement game with a guy from Norway, claiming he drawed Magnus Carlsen when he was a kid, also in a tournement game. And Magnus Carlsen must be 4 so that makes me 6 with tournement games only (2h /p/g).