Greatest Blindfold Chess Game Ever Played || Paul Morphy vs George Salmon

[@charimuvilla8693]

Lowenthal is twitch chat recommending the best moves

[@LeventK]

KZbin chat: 🥺

[@Jo-bf2hf]

@@LeventK lol

[@likhithd9714]

Hahahahahaha underrated comment

[@schwebor]

It was in this position twitch chat resigned

[@justmoody2072]

The troll one

[@Rickertjong]

ah Salmon, the ancestor of stockfish

[@stockfish5034]

Lol

[@ogorangeduck]

unfortunately, stockfish is usually made with cod (even more epic if it did)

[@gauravmg]

Epic!

[@Casey9999vr]

LMAO 😂😂😂

[@benjamindavidson4033]

That was a humor brilliancy.

[@himanshukhanduja9230]

This Leventhal guy is that one guy that confidently writes the wrong answers in an exam

[@DieFlabbergast]

*Löwenthal

[@honourabledoctoredwinmoria3126]

What's sad is that he was probably the second or third best player in Europe at the time.

[@johnaustin704]

Lowenthal gives wrong opinions on Morphy's games. Morphy wins all the exhibitions, matches, and tournaments he plays in anyway. :) Me in school: Confidently writes wrong answers on test. Teach sighs and makes ugly red marks on my exam papers. LOL!

[@MyButtsBeenWiped]

Well, at least Lowenthal wasn't the Cowardly Liar that Howard Staunton was !

[@Sivajivaylajilebi]

🤣😂🤣

[@Alexanthecost]

So Antonio is probably still waiting for someone to say this: yes, that USB pen is indeed beautiful and it does spark a bit of envy

[@AdrianCotirta]

@@jacobm1190 If you will find one!

[@nitinvadher4599]

Lowenthal is basically me trying to get in any chess conversation

[@140TrillionSuns]

you are not the only one

[@07aniketdeysarkar26]

But he was a strong master after all...

[@tankoteemusic9755]

Amazing to see people playing this strong in 1800s without the insight from computers. The forever young Paul Morphy and the legendary George Salmon.

[@knownasezio4421]

I am somewhat more impressed by george salmon, the dude is mostly an academic and nothing was mentioned abt him playing chess , meaning he probably didnt have a norm, morphy had devoted his full life to chess

[@weevil601]

@@knownasezio4421 Morphy graduated from law school before he was legally old enough to practice law. He played chess to kill time while waiting. He toured Europe, defeating all the great European masters, then returned to New Orleans at the age of 22 to begin a law practice. He never again played a serious game of chess.

[@knownasezio4421]

@@weevil601 basically the friendly neighborhood genius kid , k

[@bwitters1733]

George Salmon is the goat

[@dr.bluesfield3629]

@@knownasezio4421 the last sentence you wrote earlier could hardly be further from the truth, Morphy was exactly the opposite of "devoting his whole life to chess", on the contrary, he considered it to be just some dubious past time occupation, not a profession at all, and although he could have earned a fortune as chess pro, he refused playing for money and even gave away any prize moneys he had received. He never studied chess and only played the occasional friendly game with family and friends on weekends. During his law studies at University he hardly played at all. The only times when he did play more regularly was at the first American chess congress and during his first tour to Europe while trying to arrange the Staunton match. On his return to the US he did some more public exhibitions but soon after gave up public chess altogether, only to play some rare friendly games at home with his old friend Maurian who was no match for him. He did not even want to talk about chess anymore, even when Steinitz asked to pay him a visit in New Orleans! So actually the opposite of what you say is true, of all the chess masters in history he must be the one who did not devote his life to chess at all. Which makes his playing strength and accomplishments all the more amazing.

[@vigneshpadoor2303]

Incredible skills. Remembering 8 game positions and thinking 5-6 move deep in every game. Can't even think of it

[@Mach1Airspace]

“Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all" - Robert James Fischer. Not just the greatest genius, but after destroying the whole world at age 22 then retiring, the greatest legend as well.

[@morfi3395]

The truth and nothing but the truth....and imagine he considered chess just as entertainment, he did not study chess, and played it only on Sundays when young and during his College years...not at all. No strong competition or tournaments..the poor guy was just never really tested and must have been bored.......Extrapollated to this reality...I thiink he would still crush anyone if allowed put some more serious effort in the game and study of theory. Simply the best of all times.

[@a.m.armstrong8354]

Morphy declined money when abroad..there the similarities end!

[@NightDweller]

@@a.m.armstrong8354 😹😹😹💀 what a roast

[@rogerfedererc5315]

@@a.m.armstrong8354 damn

[@rokanza2293]

@@a.m.armstrong8354 because he was born into a rich family unlike Fischer

[@harshsingh8619]

The move was so great but Morphy was the only person who didn't see that live as he was blindfolded

[@justin_5631]

No I didn't see it live either.

[@harshsingh8619]

@@justin_5631 😂😂😂

[@spaceghost7807]

Agad: "Salmon plays Bishop to B4 his first mistake." Lowenthal: "Salmon plays the best move."

[@TartanJack]

Astounding. Can't imagine the mental capacity to navigate to the end game and that king march blindfolded while against others. The greats had and have another way of seeing.

[@Rspknlikeab0ssxd]

Wow this was just straight beautiful, not only is Morphy plaing this blindfolded while simultaneously playing 8 total players, he also has seconds at each board to react to his opponents move and play himself, whereas his opponents probably get a good minute. AND, this was one of the greatest games I've ever seen! Honestly Morphy is so inspiring and this really made my day!

[@serjio8781]

6:44 finally listened to Lowenthal's advice

[@-_Nuke_-]

I wish there was a movie about Morphy... Now that chess is so much more popular than before such a movie would be great!

[@casdomdomcas5214]

How about Mikhail Tal? Imagine all the humor and badass scenes it will have. The cigarette will be an icon again in chess.

[@killerdoc1077]

@@casdomdomcas5214 also unholy scenes

[@josephbloggss7286]

Check this out. . . www.imdb.com/title/tt5120646/ . . It is very badly made with a poor script, plot, focus, actors and director etc.

[@12jswilson]

There's an allegorical anime about Paul Morphy. It's called One Punch Man. The premise is that he's so great that he gets bored of it really quickly

[@jojok1518]

Yeah, that would be great! One on Capablanca also, there would be the scene where He watches his father playing chess, and then deduces the rules of the game without being told...and the film would end with him taking the title from Lasker

[@gethimrock]

Dude I love Paul Morphy. The dude is so cool and it’s really cool to get a picture of what the world was like back then

[@physicscogitor6192]

I simply love to follow Morphy Games. He had an 'aggressive elegance' in his moves that is unmatched. His ideas and combinations are pure beauty of chess.

[@pseudonimMusic]

My god this game is amazing. Incomprehensibly impressive.

[@jamesknapp64]

A true brillancy made better by a blindfold exhibition

[@diostrueno8575]

The legendary chess player mr Paul charles Murphy .. thank you so much wherever u are. The king !

[@gordanbjelobradic7671]

The one dislike is from loewental who got roasted to hell

[@muhammadyunus8564]

Without agad, I'll never know about the hilarious story or drama behind every classic chess game that ever exist! Thx a lot hahaha mr. Lowenthal stuff really get me laughing so hard :'D

[@adjustzest]

I found an interesting player: Valery Salov. Proponents of the conspiracy say he was removed because he had something to say against Kasparov. Valeri won, from head to toe, the Tilburg tournament and the Najdorf Memorial. In the 2nd tournament, a closed tournament in round-trip system, he defeated Karpov with both colors! Maybe it's worth remembering.

[@Kangaroo-Bob]

6:13 It was at this moment that a piece moved up the stairs and we have a completely new game

[@amritnalam9994]

😂😂damnnn

[@mrtech2259]

Haha took me a while to get the joke 😅

[@07aniketdeysarkar26]

That's not a piece, that's the queen !!

[@johnaustin704]

@@07aniketdeysarkar26 Queen of the channel lift!!!

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

It's a wild girlfriend sighting.

[@connermulloy7428]

nothing like a morphy game with a cup of tea in the morning

[@JohnnyReb1976]

How does somebody play 8 games simultaneously blindfolded? How do you remember all the positions? It's insane. I can't wrap my head around it.

[@dr.bluesfield3629]

the world record is nowadays over 50 games blindfold simultaneously. In Morphy's days 8 was spectacluar, and still is.

[@thisnicklldo]

It is incredible. I am a real patzer player, but in my youth I tried a few games blindfold against an un-blindfolded friend (an even worse patzer than me) and the thing I found is that every game is a story, and you know where you are up to in the story. Imagine you have started 8 movies on Netflix and and paused all of them part way through - you could probably restart any one of them and know where you are. For patzers like me, the problem isn't so much remembering the position, as seeing all the potential moves in any position, a problem for us whether blindfold or not, though much worse blindfold because it is so much easier to miss things. How Morphy can play brilliancies like this blindfold is completely beyond me, even the mating sequences were to much for me, with Agadmator giving me the clues and all the time in the world to look at the board - fantastic. Another way of putting it is, Morphy visualises probably 2000-5000 future positions in every game he plays, so remembering the actual position in 8 of them is no big deal, for him.

[@philippfrogel9355]

@@thisnicklldo i dont think its even hundreds of positions he visualises. i think a big part of the story is reducing the number of potentially good moves by intuition. good point with movies btw

[@thisnicklldo]

@@philippfrogel9355 Well, it's an interesting question. If on a turn he considers 3 possible moves, and if he looks 4-ply ahead, then that's 81 'positions' per move, if 20 moves get this sort of consideration, then that's 1600 'positions'. Now actually I think for someone of Grandmaster standard 4-ply is a considerable understatement, even though the number of moves considered must surely decrease with each ply. I agree it's not as simple as 1600 individual visualisations of all 64 squares with each piece in its place, but if you afterwards asked him to lay out the chess board position for any one of those 1600 possibilities, he could do it in an instant, I believe. To me it seems that the intuition you speak of is mostly used to select the 3 possible moves out of the 100+ legal moves in any position - I think he still has to consider many, many concrete variations. But it's a very hard process to accurately describe. As I'm sure we all know, these top guys calculate incredibly quickly, but yes, 'calculation' is something a bit different to picturing the entire chess board with all the pieces.

[@giriiyer3968]

You forget he said he was ready for twenty and also asked loewenthal falkbeer and other top level players to blindfold simul. But they all refused and most of them ran away,shit scared of Morphy. You can imagine the level of his genius,his mastery over the sixty four squares. He saw chess in a far more innocent way than the other seasoned and wizened masters. He played like a child with no common sense.

[@williamburdon6993]

Morphy was a monster, one has to wonder what he would have done to chess if he had dedicated his life to it.

[@alienrenders]

Or just a couple more years even.

[@tedalper1464]

note the photo of Salmon is from 40-45 years later near the end of his life (and when photography was more... uh, developed) -- he was only 38 when he played Morphy

[@predragnikolic1259]

no one can touch him so ahead of his time and still the most talented player of chess ever head in my humble opinion.

[@Icyyellowsandroutes8823]

The more and more I watch Morphy's games, the more and more I realize just how much of a cold-blooded assassin he really was; except he had tremendous style. So, I guess I'm kind of conflicted then and don't really know how I should describe him. Simply magnificent?

[@febriandwiputra2979]

Oh my God, I Always Laugh whenever he shows the Flashdisk 😅

[@predragnikolic1259]

What a talent, super genius, best ever to play the game

[@javiergilvidal1558]

"A Treatise on Conic Sections", one of the GREAT classics of Geometry written by George Salmon. I admire both players here. Thanks, Agad!

[@bashamstra9894]

Keep them coming Antonio, I like these old chess giant games best! Big fan of the Morphy saga even if it's progressing a bit slow ;-) LOVE the old pictures and chess anecdotes. In fact there is a bit more room for anecdotes in your vids maybe, just every now and then.

[@greylitz7547]

Every GM should watch this brilliant game

[@paladinbob1236]

wow...a amazing active game with a good opponent[sometimes a criticism of some of morphys opponents] ..made all the more amazing that it was so active and blindfolded...thanks for showing this :)

[@livelovemusic1915]

These new thumbnails hit hard. Love it!

[@hippophile]

One of the mostremarkable games I have ever seen, played blindfold. When I was at school I played three games blindfold simultaneously once (luckily one game only lasted about 10 moves), so I do understand how it can be done and how you can picture or work out where the pieces are. But the king walk here and some of the deep tactics, just mind-blowing to "see" all that while playing several other games! Astonishing!

[@mohammadaminsarabi6207]

All goat's games are immortal... no book..no theory..no studies..no internet resources... just pure genius

[@ethandolin6536]

just woke up, got on youtube, new post from agadmator, morning made

[@jasper5016]

Morphy was God of Chess. There wont be better player than Morphy.

[@ralphgrinio7725]

3:21 lowkey roasting

[@123leviathan123]

Holy crap this is actually the best game I've ever seen, especially given the circumstances.

[@ihavechortles7003]

It's always a special treat seeing the queen flash drive. I hope to see more of it in the future.

[@hitheshs1990]

Last time when I was this early, Antonio was rapping..

[@nobodyspecial2835]

Awwww! Booom! I get it.

[@JJ-kl7eq]

Chess History footnote: Miniature played involving George Salmon is known as a Salmonella. Often found in the Poisoned Pawn variation.

[@a.m.armstrong8354]

Prawn.

[@pawnstorminreno]

Morphy is rockin' that Cinderella mullet!

[@Jreaddy]

Morphy is truly a genius, everyone remember this is BEFORE ENGINES, this was all the human mind now chess is a game of who can remember the computer line better

[@digineet8421]

People who say this don’t understand chess

[@shreeyamittal1771]

Really, REALLY impressive one Murphy. Would be awesome to see more games of strong players trying to hold their own against him, but thinking those awesome moves in a simultaneous, blindfold match is just awesome.

[@somewhere6]

The most interesting/wild lines after Morphy plays d6 are actually if Black replies NxP(5) threatening NxQch and other things. I wish Agad had illustrated those.

[@arturslunga3415]

I am watching this video blindfolded for the most authentic experience.

[@ezy_accounts]

unbelievable... if you did not tell as blindfold, people would be thinking it as a regular game. Agad, by showing these games, you make the chess world much brighter.

[@Jo_Es_Chess_Channel]

I love how the best openings according to the computers are played even back then

[@johnaustin704]

6:14 Queen of the Channel lift! 7:15 King of the Channel demonstrating how awesome his 32GB chess king is! Thanks for the great Morphy video and thanks also for agreeing to having a Tal game for 1M subscribers!!

[@ChesterApricot]

Paul Morphy is a genius wow what a game

[@sebastianrex6697]

Declined Evan's with a yelena lurking in the stairs is just what I needed to see today...

[@TheGAMEAddict223]

I love Morphy he is incredible . He played phenomenal chess without computers favorite chess player. By far

[@sovereignruler]

Marvelous game by one of the all-time greats!

[@Neonator08]

Awesome game. Great commentary and as someone put down below, its amazing to see how good the players were without chess engines, esp Salmon as he was a casual player. On a side note, kids that think their hairstyles are rebellious or making statements clearly never saw pictures from the 19th century ;)

[@jamesdelb6885]

Morphy sees things blindfolded that most other mortals couldn't find while "seeing."

[@predragnikolic1259]

and yes I know I am spamming the chat, but who can be collective and calm when you know he played blindfold against 7 players and you see this game, it is beyond my comprehension that that level of chess understanding was existed in one human 200 years ago, GOAT!

[@william7yifans]

i cannot comprehend how it is possible to play so well while playing 8 blind folded games at the same time. I mean he's crushing people who are playing very well, is that even human

[@chandlerbing2820]

I loved it when he said "going in for the kill"

[@ebuzertahakanat]

i was laughing maniacly watching this absolute brilliancy.

[@adwaitatulsyan]

You may have gambited me, but I outgambited your gambit!

[@SantiagoKodela]

Trinity College Dublin, such good memories 💚

[@nikolasioakimidis3003]

I love how happy he gets every time he flexes his very nice USB stick

[@kamleshshah4657]

'Welcome back to the good stuff' hits very different

[@soumyajitroy5239]

I realized that after years and years chess is becoming easy compared to old times

[@Deucely]

Rip audio, such a shame :( Mic not plugged all the way/motherboard shorting type distortion throughout :( On a more up note, great vid as always, Cheers!

[@SamuelPearlman]

Morphy's Law: He who can Evans Gambit, SHOULD Evans Gambit

[@the59kg]

Video should be titled as ''Roast of Löwenthal'' 😆

[@pauldeck4500]

He said "sorry about that" without bending over. He must have moved his piece-sound volume controls.

[@VSHEGDE1947]

Löwenthal out here making twitch chat anlysis

[@Luutzen007]

Indeed brilliant, blind-folded Morphy, incredible positional play.

[@mathedguy]

Beautiful game; thanks.

[@NoName-zm1ks]

In that thumbnail, Morphy sporting the cone head style-dude once again was way ahead of his time!

[@imleksutra933]

I feel like Lowenthal was just trolling the whole chess scene. Well played, sir.

[@RaynmanPlays]

"Lowenthal lost all of his matches to Morphy, but he still finds it important that he should comment how Morphy could have played better." My sisters are big fans of Lowenthal, it seems.

[@bakulshah4367]

Awesome Morphy match finally. Morphy reeled in Salmon pretty easily hook, line and sinker. XD But Antonio, why have you still not uploaded a Tal match to celebrate you hitting one million subs btw?

[@salmanelbadessi1922]

at least finish the video my dude

[@АндиКърмаджъ-я2ь]

11:50 legends say that the reason he played Bb4 was because he heard it from löwental

[@abdulmuzaffaraladinbahaman7896]

Lowenthal's suggestions are one of the best example why you should avoid smoking low cost weed

[@rickelmonoggin]

"You can never tell if it's a photo or a drawing where someone drew really well" LOL!

[@campbellpaul]

Thank you, Antonio 👍😎

[@kylerayner1619]

'Welcome back to the good stuff"

[@tyronemidzi2457]

The way agar rips lowenthal🤣

[@bigfakenetwork]

Agadmator's analytic insight is matched by his wit. Hilarious.

[@Marxone]

17:50 Howard Staunton invades audio channel with his objection from the afterlife

[@jayteegamble]

Seems like all 8 of these simultaneous blindfold games were incredible. I imagine that Staunton was searching hard for excuses not to play their promised match.

[@hamdamjonganijonov8825]

I fell off my chair when he prematurely flexed his flash drive lmao

[@BillHimmel]

Your "Löwenthal" is spot on! Great! Few englisch speakers get our German "Umlaut"! 😊

[@williamburdon6993]

I agree that doctor Salmons portrait is very high quality. Strangely, it is not because of the technology of the time , but later methods of photo copying, Both His and Morphys pictures were created with the same technology but Morphys picture has been rescreened with 1950s technology while doctor Salmons was copied sometime since about 1990 or after with digital technology.

[@floretion]

Yay- look forward to Morphy arriving in France.

[@EmirKilicaslan]

What a crazy match

[@ezy_accounts]

Paul can see both the board and the Flash Drive!! lol

[@WorldofWar]

I watched this video blindfolded. Lost my phone.

[@ValentineC137]

I will never be able to even begin to understand how you would be able to play multiple games of high-level chess at the same time without even being able to see anything

[@karan51ngh]

agad flexing his king USB after reading our comments at 7:18 should be featured in the next episode of agadmator's best moments.

[@tom7]

Amazing

[@DaveNeve]

I tried to play blind-folded last week but I couldn't remember if my white queen starts off to the left or right of the white king 🤔

[@giriiyer3968]

Well I have the same the confusion even when playing a normal board game. Heh heh!!

[@RotoGluOn]

Great game! I loved this end game, really funny one :D

[@vivekmohan7785]

Morphy was really a legend 👏👏