As a player who has defeated Masters and was offered a Harvard "B" team spot, I have reached that skill and performed all of the tactics displayed in this video. Since you wish to okay like that and I am here, I will share two basic ideas to help you skyrocket in skill within 100 Blitz games. Firstly, try to play a whole game from at least the mid-game with only Double Attacks where one flows into the next. Secondly, gain and stack initiative but don't use it for a long as possible only using it when the Chess board tells you not when you can't keep track on plans. Good luck! My highest Harvard Chess Club ranking during a single tournament was a 2200 one where I went undefeated versus registered Experts beat a 2375IM. It was a 21 person tournament. Those two ideas is all you need until IM skill.
@@davidcopson5800he played all strong players at his time and destroyed them like ragdolls so yeah . Also he had played 1st American chess congress where he crushed everyone
@@uncookedbert3216 by our standards no he didn't, there was very little theory back then compared to what a child would learn now in children chess club
Indeed...and imagine if he would have had stronger competition, a coach , played more often than 3 or 4 games on a Sunday!...people who deny his brilliancy by comparing him with the current computer kids are just not getting it.
Morphy's playing style was so flashy. He had an almost uncanny talent for the game despite having access to very little chess theory. The fact that his games are still analyzed and continue to fascinate more than 150 years later speaks for itself. He was indeed the epitome of a chess genius.
I would suggest Tals 5 greatest moves, but i dont think its possible to narrow it down to 5. anyways, awesome series Simon! looking forward to more from you and your editors
@@hamidurrahman8736 dude, they are making suggestions. Please, read the context. Thanks for being civil about it though, most people would have been hostile
Morphy's third game was played by him blindfolded at the age of 12 at his birthday party, that is totally true, look it up if you don't believe me. Such an outstanding player.
You mean the fourth game? The third game was played against Louis Paulsen in the finals of the American Chess Congress...I think Morphy was around 20. I know the fourth game was played when Morphy was 12. I don't think he was blindfolded though, and seeing how it was played on October 28th while Morphy's birthday was in July, I doubt it was played at his birthday party.
@Thomas dxb Something doesn't add up. It's very irrelevant to say that Magnus is stronger than Morphy with the resource difference (like your comment said why Magnus is stronger). That's my point with my first reply. English is not my first language.
@Thomas dxb give morphy the access magnus has to PC learning, and teams of 2800+ super GMs and Morphy would crush Magnus. Evaluating from a pure talent level, Morphy is the greatest player to ever touch the game.
@@donkbonktj5773 difference era bro, magnus play in computer era that easy to improve his skill by learn from computer but if magnus play in morphy's era morphy would crush magnus but if they played in this era magnus would win easily
This is a great series, please add more of the classics: Capablanca, Alekhine, Tal, and the modern champions Anand, Kramnik, Topalov. Also Shirov and Short.
Do more Morphy like this! You had me LMAO with that bit of pasting the board to your hand showing off the masterful position of Morphy’s Bishops as your own and parading around town! Great stuff. This was a year ago so I am sure you have more on my 2nd favorite American of all time.
Modern High Elo: "Oh, I've seen this move, Im gonna use this move that I have learned to counter this move" Paul Morphy: "oh shit, what do I do?(proceeds to solve the problem in a matter of seconds)". This was the real STRATEGICAL chess, no chess theories, just straight up impromptu chess playing and predicting the enemy's next move.
By the last one (specifically 8:54) if u move knight to E5 it would stop the check, stop the pawn from advancing and at same time would threaten the white bishop
You are right Paul Morphy is a joy to behold not tahl not Fischer came up with such stunners unarguably the two greatest of the modern era and I follow them
As surprising as a Morphy move, I was surprised when Simon was joking about how they resigned in the old days that he does a pretty poor British accent. Is that possible? Can a Brit do an unconvincing British accent? Great video BTW.
Simon Williams and whoever edits these videos are doing such a great job with these videos :D If i would be able to be a GM i really wish that i would be like GM Williams
Great videos, I like the "5 most brilliant" series. I wanted to ask if you could make a video of forced draw where something like "take my bishop" (if you take, draw) or "take my piece" (if you take, draw). I once saw this game where a bishop kept chasing the other bishop begging to be taken to draw. I never found the game again for 15 years now.
2:01 is the game over there though? Sac the queen for the remaining Rook and you have a Queen and Bishop vs 2 rooks and 2 bishops. That's fairly equal in my mind. The amount of pawn difference though, but 2 rooks should be able to make quick work of it even the playing field.
In the second game, after using the bishop to take F3, White king backs up again. (jojo) I can't get my head around why he didn't use the bishop to take the rook on D1. Folowing up with the more elegant check by using his rook from E8 to E1, forcing white to go in between and sacrifice the queen, ending up in checkmate...
It hurts so much when you see people belittling and making fun of this absolute genius of chess player!! They say Morphy would lose terribly to any modern GM. Well then , explain to me why, the mighty Bobby Fischer himself said, that nobody sees the whole board like Morphy does (Meaning his intuition).
For game #5, Knight e5 instead of taking Queen is scary for white. Although white would win, it's a very long line of specific moves you'd have to follow to not give up your lead to black and it involves a white queen sacrifice from white, which I'm sure people wouldn't think of doing. Except Morphy 🤣
I think in the second game there was a refutation without losing the queen pawn from f2 to f3 covering the queen and an escape square for the king but I'm not sure about the continuation after that
3:27 - black queen takes rook on f1. White queen takes black queen. Rook on e6 to e1. If white queen takes rook, other black rook takes with checkmate. If white queen doesn't take, black bishop to c1, then to a3.
Hello, I would probably check mate the black king with Qe6 , I didn´t see the Qc6-checkmate, but it is also nice.I mean the game that started with Re8. Here are brilliant moves, brilliant play, and Fischer himself said once ,,Probably Morphy was the greatest genius of them all,,. Cheers from Bulgaria,Simon and bring us more!
Hey i wanna ask something in 4:23 why he didnt played Rg2 there was a unstopable 3-move mate if Qe2 we will take by queen by rook if he plays any move like Qd3 we simply take pawn on f2 check Kg1 forced Rg2 and we simply mate on Rg1 if he moves Qxb6 Rxh2!! and there is nothing to stop Rh1#
"Morphy was probably the greatest of 'em all."-Bobby Fischer. Morphy, the only player I like except Fischer. I won't say other players are not good but he was just simply unbelievable.
Minute 1:31: after 1...Qa4+ White should play 2.Kc1 with equal chances after ...Bxb4 3.cxb4 Rxb4 4.Qg5. But Bird played 2.Kb2?? Bxb4 3.cxb4 Rxb4+, allowing Black to give this decisive check.
I'm not sure but I heard some where that when they ran his games through an engine one of his games got four exclamation marks for his brilliancy moves the highest till date
Botvinnik himself declared that since Paul Morphy nothing new has been improved in the open game. Let that sink in. This without any computer databases or team of super GMs to aide him. Just a regular kid in mid-19th century Louisiana playing a 'parlor game' to pass time before he could legally practice law.
My problem is that I do not understand algebraic notation, so please make a video on algebraic notation (nick de firmian) in particular from the book please
Morphy's move are really something different to the new chess players, definitely my favorite player of all time considering the age the lived in. Jesus Christ THAT was interesting chess, nowadays its more tactical and "boring"
Nice to see a chess presenter who has a real gift for entertainment - not all of them do! Also he kindly bought me a drink once, so I can't say anything bad about him!
In the Bird vs. Morphy game, Bird isn't dead yet. After QxR, QxQ check, Bird has 3 pieces for his Queen though he is five pawns down. Bird was a tougher player to beat than most. I am not convinced that this is a decisive advantage against Bird.
Learn more about Paul Morphy's life and chess games here: www.chess.com/players/paul-morphy
This is my fevorate play series..
Keep serving such a valuable things...
Love you chess.com
As a player who has defeated Masters and was offered a Harvard "B" team spot, I have reached that skill and performed all of the tactics displayed in this video. Since you wish to okay like that and I am here, I will share two basic ideas to help you skyrocket in skill within 100 Blitz games. Firstly, try to play a whole game from at least the mid-game with only Double Attacks where one flows into the next. Secondly, gain and stack initiative but don't use it for a long as possible only using it when the Chess board tells you not when you can't keep track on plans. Good luck! My highest Harvard Chess Club ranking during a single tournament was a 2200 one where I went undefeated versus registered Experts beat a 2375IM. It was a 21 person tournament. Those two ideas is all you need until IM skill.
First example...please explain why the queen simply cant take the rook?
These moves are like the best moves I have ever seen
Great!but I hope they have the same era with magnus
"Chess can be artistic pursuit, but when Morphy was playing, it was something glorious to behold."
How are you top comment?
@@LeventK damned If I know
@@Amirreza_Karimi not damned anymore 👍🏻
Bruh
@@LeventK haha, no shit?!?
Paul Morphy was so ahead of his competition that he had no competition
What if he wanted to enter a competition?
@@davidcopson5800he played all strong players at his time and destroyed them like ragdolls so yeah . Also he had played 1st American chess congress where he crushed everyone
I really enjoy these series
@@davidschneide5422 yea that would be great
me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Paul Morphy and Michail Tal ever got together I would pay my life’s savings to watch their game
So how much did you save in your life?
@@jurjenvanderhoek316 don't be an ass
Mikhail Tal would win that match!
He was crazier genius !
@@dusanninic9572 Nope, Morphy. Tal was an idiot.
@@jansnauwaert1785
Can you prove that ???
Imagine if Morphy actually studied the game and didn't give it up at 23! Greatest over the board chess mind ever.
Morphy did study.
@@uncookedbert3216 by our standards no he didn't, there was very little theory back then compared to what a child would learn now in children chess club
@@paulmorphy6187 Watching Morphy get all of his pieces into a game/attack is truly artistic. So far ahead of his time that it's kind of shocking.
Indeed...and imagine if he would have had stronger competition, a coach , played more often than 3 or 4 games on a Sunday!...people who deny his brilliancy by comparing him with the current computer kids are just not getting it.
@@uncookedbert3216 not really....played on Sundays and his first book was touched when he was 19.
You know you're good when you're Fischer's favorite player.
Morphy's playing style was so flashy. He had an almost uncanny talent for the game despite having access to very little chess theory. The fact that his games are still analyzed and continue to fascinate more than 150 years later speaks for itself. He was indeed the epitome of a chess genius.
I would suggest Tals 5 greatest moves, but i dont think its possible to narrow it down to 5. anyways, awesome series Simon! looking forward to more from you and your editors
michael baker Me to
Oh wow. Geniuses Debating. Not to mention they finished it in a civilized way. What a rarity
Tal should be 10 atleast, he was a father of brilliancies
Hi guys, the video is all about Paul Morphy's 5 greatest chess moves. Talk about that. Please don't make irrelevant comments.
@@hamidurrahman8736 dude, they are making suggestions. Please, read the context. Thanks for being civil about it though, most people would have been hostile
What a genius.A player from the 19th century attracting 300k views; much more than many of today’s top players.
Morphy's third game was played by him blindfolded at the age of 12 at his birthday party, that is totally true, look it up if you don't believe me. Such an outstanding player.
You mean the fourth game? The third game was played against Louis Paulsen in the finals of the American Chess Congress...I think Morphy was around 20. I know the fourth game was played when Morphy was 12. I don't think he was blindfolded though, and seeing how it was played on October 28th while Morphy's birthday was in July, I doubt it was played at his birthday party.
ya butt Hans Niemann would have crushed him
@@Godlessgaming79 Ah yes Hans Niemals. Wonder if the cheating scandal is in his favour, or Magnus's
Paul Morphy, the greatest chess master of all time!!!’
@Thomas dxb no shit magnus would crush morphy..
@Thomas dxb Something doesn't add up. It's very irrelevant to say that Magnus is stronger than Morphy with the resource difference (like your comment said why Magnus is stronger). That's my point with my first reply. English is not my first language.
@Thomas dxb give morphy the access magnus has to PC learning, and teams of 2800+ super GMs and Morphy would crush Magnus. Evaluating from a pure talent level, Morphy is the greatest player to ever touch the game.
@@donkbonktj5773 difference era bro, magnus play in computer era that easy to improve his skill by learn from computer but if magnus play in morphy's era morphy would crush magnus but if they played in this era magnus would win easily
no way Hans Niemann would have crushed him
This is a great series, please add more of the classics: Capablanca, Alekhine, Tal, and the modern champions Anand, Kramnik, Topalov. Also Shirov and Short.
And Bobby Fischers Best Moves/Games as well.
Do more Morphy like this! You had me LMAO with that bit of pasting the board to your hand showing off the masterful position of Morphy’s Bishops as your own and parading around town! Great stuff.
This was a year ago so I am sure you have more on my 2nd favorite American of all time.
Thanks Simon. Love those videos!
Modern High Elo: "Oh, I've seen this move, Im gonna use this move that I have learned to counter this move"
Paul Morphy: "oh shit, what do I do?(proceeds to solve the problem in a matter of seconds)".
This was the real STRATEGICAL chess, no chess theories, just straight up impromptu chess playing and predicting the enemy's next move.
I never get tired of watching Paul Morphy games, moves or anything else that includes the man , what a guy ! 😁✌
1:45 Black has sacrificed so much that he's still down a bishop if the Queen takes the rook. Isn't a perpetual the most Black has here?
I was thinking the same thing. a few of the positions here looks like the response suggested or played weren't the best moves
he is a ginger, you understand that he is full of shit sometimes
Erik, after Qxb4 and Qxb4, white king is really naked, might be winning
@@smtparwatisahu2596 and how is black going to bring in the bishop to win the game? It looks like a perpetual at most because of the vulnerable king.
@@erikthehalfabee6234 it's also about the pawns...2 white to 7 black is a huge advantage
By the last one (specifically 8:54) if u move knight to E5 it would stop the check, stop the pawn from advancing and at same time would threaten the white bishop
Great video. Morphy was the genius to top all chess geniuses.
Your comments are funny and intelligent at the same time.
Your channel is pretty addictive. Now, I really enjoy watching chess.
You are right Paul Morphy is a joy to behold not tahl not Fischer came up with such stunners unarguably the two greatest of the modern era and I follow them
As surprising as a Morphy move, I was surprised when Simon was joking about how they resigned in the old days that he does a pretty poor British accent. Is that possible? Can a Brit do an unconvincing British accent? Great video BTW.
The most brilliant and most entertaining comments about magic chess moments I've ever heared. Brovo Simon!
Idk how many times I've watched this particular top 5.. but I just love chess, love Morphy, love your top 5s...
Subscribed just for your commentary. Paul M. was ahead of his time. What a great chess player!
6:42 queen e6 was more beautiful than c7
If disagree. I like how it looks like none of the pieces are connected/supported. It's almost like , "wait...how is this checkmate?"
The pride: Morphy’s chess brilliance
The sorrow: that hair
Hey hipsters kill for a style like that!!
Flatulence as a strategy?
It's diabolical
Simon Williams and whoever edits these videos are doing such a great job with these videos :D
If i would be able to be a GM i really wish that i would be like GM Williams
5:37 I was thinking it will be something absurd like Re8 and then it was lmao
Roppis is Qe6 also mate on the last move?
@@lerrygindgren2076 yes
Morphs game are the literal definition of pure talent , his ingenuity lives in forever
A very good and entertaining video from sir Simon Williams.. teo thumbs up for this video
Top 5 Tal, Karpov, Lasker or Capablanca please
Great videos, I like the "5 most brilliant" series. I wanted to ask if you could make a video of forced draw where something like "take my bishop" (if you take, draw) or "take my piece" (if you take, draw). I once saw this game where a bishop kept chasing the other bishop begging to be taken to draw. I never found the game again for 15 years now.
That first example was unreal. That was awesome
Great, fantastic and immortal Paul Morphy!!! Respect forever!!!
I thought mikhail tal was only magician. But paul morphy is also a silent killing magician.
Man! You voice and style of delivering is so stress relieving. Take love.
Bob Fischer applied Paul Mophie Style of play...a lot of stunning sacrifices.
Omg at 7:00 that position looks eerily similar to alpha zeros positon against stockfish in a match i saw on agadmators channel
2:01 is the game over there though? Sac the queen for the remaining Rook and you have a Queen and Bishop vs 2 rooks and 2 bishops. That's fairly equal in my mind. The amount of pawn difference though, but 2 rooks should be able to make quick work of it even the playing field.
It’s -6 for black so yes the game is basically over
Morphy is the GOAT, nothing more to say.🔥🔥
The Original Mozart Of Chess.
@@donkbonktj5773 Then who is its Beethoven?
@@probium2832 what
Enjoyed it. I subscribed. Thanks
The videos are more shockingly surprising than the video titles... Good job!
Morphy deserves top 100 moves.
02:01 - I wonder if white can make an effort to hold on by playing queen takes rook?
he can but big disadvantage like -6
Plus 3 pass pawns
4:20 why not bishop takes f2,next move bishop g2 was unstoppable mate!
i watched more of this top 5 moves in chess...some of them i able to guess, but this top 5 are out of now where... simply magical
That two bishop checkmate. That’s a dream, Morphy definitely knew how to attack and sacrifice
6:40 👑 e6 is also #
In the second game, after using the bishop to take F3, White king backs up again. (jojo) I can't get my head around why he didn't use the bishop to take the rook on D1. Folowing up with the more elegant check by using his rook from E8 to E1, forcing white to go in between and sacrifice the queen, ending up in checkmate...
Move #5 might be the most brutal thing I've ever seen on the board. o_O
Finally the video i was waiting for and still waiting for legends like capablanca
Without Paul Morphy modern chess would be impossible. I forget who said that, but he was right.
Simon in every intro: “one of my favourite players of all time”
Hysterical commentary and ole' timey video.
What a brilliant 1st move!!! I clap for a while. He is such a genius about 150 years ago.
It hurts so much when you see people belittling and making fun of this absolute genius of chess player!!
They say Morphy would lose terribly to any modern GM.
Well then , explain to me why, the mighty Bobby Fischer himself said, that nobody sees the whole board like Morphy does (Meaning his intuition).
People nowadays say whatever sheet first coming out of their mouth
@@malachisavior5955 Sad, but true..
6:20 he is such a magician that the knight turns into a queen
Did you actually have trouble understanding that?
For game #5, Knight e5 instead of taking Queen is scary for white. Although white would win, it's a very long line of specific moves you'd have to follow to not give up your lead to black and it involves a white queen sacrifice from white, which I'm sure people wouldn't think of doing. Except Morphy 🤣
Thank you very much Captain Simon Williams for this video and please continue
in 3:36, if the black queen eats the rook in f1, either queen or king takes the rook, it'll also end in a checkmate, i also think it is much faster.
It won't end in a checkmate
What?? No Opera House game? That's the game that made me fall in love with chess and see it as more than simply making legal moves.
I think in the second game there was a refutation without losing the queen pawn from f2 to f3 covering the queen and an escape square for the king but I'm not sure about the continuation after that
3:27 - black queen takes rook on f1. White queen takes black queen. Rook on e6 to e1.
If white queen takes rook, other black rook takes with checkmate.
If white queen doesn't take, black bishop to c1, then to a3.
How can bishop go c1?
I am proud that I saw the second one with Ng3
Paul Morphy was mentioned in the chess books I read, but only now do I see how brilliant he really was.
I see why Paul Morphy was considered the best chess player
1:55 Qxb4 only move 6:17 Qxg7?!
The second example was awesome. ( and the cherry on the top of Morphys cake was a good one
Been loving this series. Great stuff
Hello, I would probably check mate the black king with Qe6 , I didn´t see the Qc6-checkmate, but it is also nice.I mean the game that started with Re8. Here are brilliant moves, brilliant play, and Fischer himself said once ,,Probably Morphy was the greatest genius of them all,,. Cheers from Bulgaria,Simon and bring us more!
8:51 that's kind of an engine move isn't it? :D
No
Whatever you else play you lose so
*NO*
@@LeventK Right, that's why next best move is resign. Some engines, especially the more primitive ones, play desperado moves in similar circumstances.
The effects simon give is soo funny😂
That first Morphy moment is definitely an all-timer
Hey i wanna ask something in 4:23 why he didnt played Rg2 there was a unstopable 3-move mate if Qe2 we will take by queen by rook if he plays any move like Qd3 we simply take pawn on f2 check Kg1 forced Rg2 and we simply mate on Rg1 if he moves Qxb6 Rxh2!! and there is nothing to stop Rh1#
"Morphy was probably the greatest of 'em all."-Bobby Fischer. Morphy, the only player I like except Fischer. I won't say other players are not good but he was just simply unbelievable.
Minute 1:31: after 1...Qa4+ White should play 2.Kc1 with equal chances after ...Bxb4 3.cxb4 Rxb4 4.Qg5. But Bird played 2.Kb2?? Bxb4 3.cxb4 Rxb4+, allowing Black to give this decisive check.
Morphy has the most beautiful works of art in chess games ever.
When people ask me to "like" them, i never do it ... Liking is something that should come naturally, isn't it?
Oh.what a delight to see Morphy in this way
“The naked white king” when Simon said that I was bursting out in laughter
Uh oh, Simon's chess hero is the same as Ben Finegold's... World upside down.
I'm not sure but I heard some where that when they ran his games through an engine one of his games got four exclamation marks for his brilliancy moves the highest till date
Morphy's tactics seem even more impressive than Kasparov's, Karpov's or Carlsen's. About to watch the Fischer video. This playlist is great!
Because they dont get the chance to show such tactics as often since their opponents notice them too
I really love your commentary... Hats off guy..
wow!!! this are truly 5 magic moves!!! thank you sir for sharing this!
Whaaaaat the 5th example blew my mind.
Botvinnik himself declared that since Paul Morphy nothing new has been improved in the open game. Let that sink in. This without any computer databases or team of super GMs to aide him. Just a regular kid in mid-19th century Louisiana playing a 'parlor game' to pass time before he could legally practice law.
My problem is that I do not understand algebraic notation, so please make a video on algebraic notation (nick de firmian) in particular from the book please
Morphy's move are really something different to the new chess players, definitely my favorite player of all time considering the age the lived in. Jesus Christ THAT was interesting chess, nowadays its more tactical and "boring"
2:02 just play queen captures rook and you have more than enough compensation for the queen - two rooks and two bishops
Black has 5 extra pawns.
@@vymicrowave well okay you got a point
Top notch collection.
You are awesome!! I like the way you deliver the contents. It only inspires me to fall in love with English 1% more than chess.
these series is brilliant!
Nice to see a chess presenter who has a real gift for entertainment - not all of them do! Also he kindly bought me a drink once, so I can't say anything bad about him!
for me, Ng3 is the most beautiful move of all time
In the Bird vs. Morphy game, Bird isn't dead yet. After QxR, QxQ check, Bird has 3 pieces for his Queen though he is five pawns down. Bird was a tougher player to beat than most. I am not convinced that this is a decisive advantage against Bird.
plz do top 5 moves of Mikhail Tal
That last one was sick