3 Days for One Game || Paulsen vs Morphy (1857) || 1st American Chess Congress

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This is the story of the birth of modern chess - when the possibilities of chess as an art, a science and a sport all converged.
The point of convergence was a young boy from Louisiana named Paul Morphy. At a time when America was seen as a backwoods nation with little cultural history and even less intellectual impetus, at a time when chess was considered the exclusive property of a few European countries, at a time when the game was played successfully by a handful of men wizened by years, Paul Morphy, in the brief span of 19 months and with seemingly little effort, defeated conclusively every player he met.
While today few non chess players even know his name, he was one of the most famous celebrities of his time and within the hallowed halls of the chess playing community he is considered by some as the greatest chess player of all time.
But this diminutive, unassuming boy rose to fame almost out of nowhere and once he secured his place in history, he retired back into that hazy unknown, shunning the public eye, never again to play serious chess. Not only was he one of great practitioners of the game, but also one of it's greatest enigmas. He's been given the sobriquet, The Pride and Sorrow of Chess.
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Louis Paulsen vs Paul Morphy
1st American Chess Congress (1857), New York, NY USA, rd 4, Oct-29
Spanish Game: Berlin Defense. Rosenthal Variation (C67)
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ne4 5. d4 a6 6. Bd3 d5 7. Ne5 Nd4 8. Re1 Be6 9. c3 Nc6 10. Nc6 bc6 11. Qa4 Qd7 12. Be4 de4 13. Qe4 Bd6 14. Nd2 O-O 15. Nf3 Bd5 16. Qd3 Rae8 17. Bg5 Qg4 18. h3 Qh5 19. Bd2 Re6 20. Ng5 Rg6 21. Ne4 Rg2 22. Kg2 f5 23. f3 Qg6 24. Ng5 h6 25. c4 Bf7 26. h4 Rd8 27. Qc2 hg5 28. hg5 Be6 29. Rh1 Be7 30. f4 c5 31. Rae1 Kf7 32. Rh3 Bc8 33. Kg1 Bb7 34. Bc1 Rd4 35. b3 Bd6 36. Qe2 Re4 37. Qf2 Qe6 38. Rhe3 Qd7 39. Qh4 Kg6 40. Qh3 Be7 41. Re4 Be4 42. Qe3 Qd8 43. Qh3 Qd4 44. Be3 Qc3 45. Qf1 Qa5 46. Qf2 Qb6 47. Re2 Qc6 48. Bc1 Qd7 49. Rd2 Qe6 50. Qe3 Qc6 51. Bb2 Kf7 52. Qh3 Qg6 53. Rh2 Qd6
Materials used in research:
Paul Morphy: Pride and Sorrow of Chess by David Lawson
The Genious Of Paul Morphy by Chris Ward
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[@paulmorphy6314]

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0:00 Hello everyone 2:34 Enjoy the show 3:22 3:56 4:06 4:45 5:19 Captures captures 5:40 16:06 (...captures!) 5:13 Nice rook lift 7:30 Give you a couple of seconds 9:33 Nasty discoveries 15:06 It was in this position

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No talk of coronavirus in whole video?

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[@evoL1293]

Grischuks biggest regret in life is that he wasn`t born in the 19th century before chess clocks.

[@MislavIvkovic-sx8vd]

He he

[@tharkanzox1493]

Ppl that say morphy is overrated: idiots of the internet. Ppl that say he is not overrated: fischer, kasparov, tal, botvinnik.

[@bridgebum826]

And Ben Finegold.

[@shamsursagor293]

I think it's hard to find actual rating of Paul Morphy..

[@robertkarlsson1960]

@@bridgebum826 Isnt he included in the idiots on the internet category?

[@lfoster7739]

Elkanah Corcos you first. Imagine the sack on that dude

[@MrChrisdube]

From what I understand, Morphy gave even the best players knight and move odds on most occasions.

[@lilpinecone999]

Morphy doesn’t go for Morphy’s defense lol

[@jamesknapp64]

I said that last game as well

[@atssasangzz8535]

Don't be impatient. Our great agamador will come to this point

[@Beerfish777]

That was the very first thing I thought. My mouth hung open.

[@keshab5424]

@ 1:28 😂 "somewhat rare move nowadays!"

[@kahwigulum]

A couple years later, Paul Morphy grew out his hair. And it was as of 1859 that we had a completely new mane.

[@fahimp3]

I'm a JP fan too. He is a very smart guy. I don't know why people hate him so much for his unchallenged wisdom!

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@@fahimp3 JP? You mean Jordan Peterson, right?

[@fahimp3]

@@Chestnut-xm2pv It was a joke. Take it how you will...

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@@fahimp3 I wasn't trying to attack you or anything. I just genuinely don't know what you mean

[@WarcraftHD]

FINALLY WE ARE BACK AT THE GOOD STUFF

[@jacksoe3530]

Peter Mortensen Stop

[@richardsleep2045]

It must have driven Morphy nuts. I gather that The London 1883 chess tournament was the first use of chess clocks, but I can't find how this happened. How on earth did they do without clocks!

[@rohithreddy75]

Finally morphy's saga is back.Cool✌🏻

[@tomfogle8173]

"And it is as of move 7 that this position was never reached again." - for those who were curious when this happened.

[@juvenalredivius1077]

They have game databases that people use to study chess. That's why

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[@FruitOfTheSpirit]

We’re all very grateful for the Morphy saga continuing in the midst of the Candidate’s tournament being canceled. This will make quarantining less of a downer. Thank you Antonio!

[@philibuster2137]

1:15 I always wonder when will be the first time that we see Morphy's Defence

[@roistin3944]

The 3-Day Gambit

[@arshupadhyaya]

Lol whatever happens agad can always go back to the “good stuff”

[@sriramananthakrishna9618]

19:00 made me chuckle, Grischuk time 😂😂

[@johnhickman930]

Morphy is unbelievably gifted....I am simply amazed at the beauty of his play. Astonishing to see the way he controls the board and pieces.....thanks Agadmator for these Amazing Chess videos my friend! #MorphySaga

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Sure thing. Glad you enjoy them

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Doggy has a very nice square on the couch.

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yo thanks @agadmator for keeping it going still having your videos to watch is a huge relief with the lockdown

[@johnedward71]

I love the old games before the engines. They had to win with creativity, and improvisation.

[@giriiyer3968]

I think Paulsen came with only one intention not to lose and wear Morphy down by slowing things down otherwise there was no other way to win against Morphy

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[@japooskas]

That was like a boxing match.. attack, block, defend, repeat lol Thanks for the video, had fun watching this

[@giriiyer3968]

Very beautifully expressed I got the same feeling when I watched but didn't have the right in fact they stayed in their own corners throwing punches in the air not willing to take the initiative waiting for the other to come this game is quite unlike Morphy who generally attacked may be he was awed by the enormity of the situation

[@justsomebul]

More morphy !😁 👍👍 Glad to see u back

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[@Mati-zc2ym]

It is too big of a spoiler when u give someone Morphy head before it even starts

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[@JoeDidIt]

so morphy only plays bad when his opponent annoys the shit outta him seems fair

[@IgnatzKolisch]

What will happen on this channel if FIDE announces also postponing the conclusion of the 1857 US Chess Congress?

[@giriiyer3968]

Switching the move order was basically a compulsive/impulsive reaction by morphy as he plays his moves immediately but I'm sure morphy realised his mistake just as quickly of that I'm sure it happens in chess all the time like the proverbial Monday morning quarterback

[@kovyiscool]

Your hair looks like Morphys. Minus the earmuffs.

[@ns7379]

Maybe more similar to Paulsen.

[@matepolcz]

Good observation.

[@Tearsofsoil]

Almost Intentional or Is it?

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[@Swagtorian]

Not even close

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Keep up with videos brooo. Nema sta da se radi sad u karantinu samo cepaj 👍😉

[@giriiyer3968]

This was an extremely cynical and defensive game unlike the 1850s this is how modern games are played but still wonderful game

[@Mati-zc2ym]

The candidates will be even more fun as all the players prepare something fresh for second part

[@peterday3253]

#suggestion How about a Medo saga? A collection of Agadmator videos with the best Medo action in the background.

[@mistermonologue2442]

Yes a thousand times and more, ready for some more Morphy saga, forget the candidates

[@brianhoward8336]

Beautiful game! Paulsen's best vs Morphy in the saga so far. Morphy likely gets the win with fxe4 (@ 7:36) if the game doesn't start so late at 7:30pm..

[@atssasangzz8535]

Thank you for the continuation of Morphy saga. I almost forgot that we are on Morphy saga 😂😂

[@jx14aby]

Slow play can be an effective tactic.

[@icollectstories5702]

h8ers made blitz.

[@cygnustsp]

Loved your analysis of the possible ending

[@solutionreplays6622]

Morphys bishops defended by the double pawns was beautiful I’ve never seen that before

[@aini9027]

If you are into snooker. Its like when the opponent is taking long time to play and you are just waiting and waiting and due to that you play the wrong shot

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[@itwasinthispositionerinoag7414]

Back to the good stuff

[@ali_p_q7920]

Interesting. Paulsen would definitely lose on time if that was thing back then.

[@giriiyer3968]

Within the first four moves

[@mrnnhnz]

As I understand it, and correct me if I'm wrong, players playing a fast game these days might get a certain amount of time to play the whole match (say ten minutes,) plus an 'increment,' of a certain number of seconds after each turn. Clearly the increment is cumulative. How about having a certain amount of time for the whole match, plus some sort of increment that is not cumulative (sort of like 'time control,' again, if I'm understanding that correctly,) but every turn, not just after, say, turn 40. That way Morphy and Paulsen could have a match of, say, an hour, but with a non-cumulative increment of, say, half an hour each turn. That way if they had a particularly tricky position to consider, they could maybe take over an hour on that turn - but they'd know, in their own minds, that on most turns they wouldn't want to take over about 30-35 minutes. What do you guys think?

[@jangreen5618]

Fide have estimated Morphys grade would have been 2638. Fischer in 1972 was 2785. Spassky was 2665 in 1972.

[@TheAtomsman]

As I watch your chess coverage everyday on my iPad, it would be great to able to watch it full screen.

[@otinanai9806]

18:55 "50 mins for one move like Grischuk time"..couldn 't stop laughing

[@sportsrevisited9699]

7:28 it figures i guess the right move and it turns out to be the wrong one.

[@xzjulius]

Welcome back to the good stuff! -Agad 2020 Nothing about this year is good but okay lmao 😂

[@zorak780]

Hello Agadmator, i was following you for a long time now.. and i really want you to put captions since im deaf.. so if you dont mind can you put them on your future videos?

[@philippfrogel9355]

do you mean real written subtitles?

[@hassanakmar7205]

You have the options of turning on the auto generated subtitles

[@dakotayupyupyup8377]

See Moar I know you’re trying to help and I’m also not trying to be an ass, but I find it hard to believe the person doesn’t already know auto captions are available, they’re probably just dead frustrated with the captions being so inaccurate. I use captions sometimes myself and I can forgive the errors because I can hear what is being said, so it’s easy for me to keep up, but I imagine that would be hell for a deaf person to wonder why the captions might say “we’ll come back to an otter exiting game”

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@@dakotayupyupyup8377 i didnt know there is subtitle auto generated until it is mentioned by other people.. but i guess the auto generated still not functioning properly. It will take a lot more effort for agadmator to upload the video, he had to search the database, thinking about the logic itself, it will be much more easier if someone else other than agadmator do the subtitles.. if you want agadmator to put the subtitles himself, i would imagine we will have less video than he would do now.

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@@hassanakmar7205 I think yt has the feature that anyone can write subtitles, and the one who uploaded a video can accept them. So other people could write them

[@ЛюбомирГайдарски]

Been holping for the cancellation of the candidates tournament for weeks now, so we can continue our Morphy's saga

[@giriiyer3968]

Yes I'm a great fan of Morphy modern games are not all that exciting I'm sorry that's mho Morphy always seems to do something different like a magician pulls a rabbit out of the hat

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[@cygnustsp]

Lol

[@nosystem1098]

I have to wonder, how did the likes of Steinitz/Morphy/Andersen develop their skills to such a high degree when there were no computers or databases or even more than a handful of books on the subject? Were there really that many players at hand capable of giving these guys challenge enough that they could learn anything from playing them?

[@StahliCell]

Suggestion: put in the description also the link to morphy's saga playlist, i've seen you've organized them really nicely :)

[@unicockboy1666]

"You could also force matters with C4" 😳😳

[@tenshib5951]

Paul Morphy's modern rating: take the best player of the time and add 10 elo points. There you have Morphy's rating!

[@nickbritten8132]

2:00 - there’s something beautiful about that position.

[@narayandejesusreyes5843]

Medo jumps to freedom at 2:34

[@Hummabubba]

I'm surprised I saw pawn captures on e4. I got most everything wrong after that, but hey, I saw it, Morphy didn't, let me have this small victory.

[@RobFlaxMusic]

Is there a word for "I had a winning attack but didn't play the correct move and then had to fight much harder on everything else?"

[@juvenalredivius1077]

The word is "mistake".

[@cygnustsp]

The cygnustsp gambit

[@Bruh-sf1db]

Throwing

[@giriiyer3968]

@@juvenalredivius1077 actually it's called i blundered

[@giriiyer3968]

Or even I was eyeing that beaty on the fifth row on the fourth seat

[@blightwastaken]

At 2:30 I thought the move was Nf3 which delivers a check and since the knight has moved, it opens an attack on the queen which is hanging

[@glenncooper3524]

Ya stockfish says Morphy was behind at the position they agreed to a draw 4.4 but it was obvious he couldn't figure out how to beat him. 3 days , how big of a headache the last day and a half must of been.

[@ShermanSitter]

We always have 1857, if not 2020. Thank you Agadmator!

[@user-yc3tf4wz2x]

For the people wondering what if Knight F3 check at around the 2 minutes mark. 2:15 Well Queen captures.

[@nukecorruption]

I always pull back bishop to d3, I guess I need to update my playstyle D:

[@tyrannosauruszeppelin2205]

Morphy: Oh no, I drawed a game when I could have won it! Anish Giri: Oh, but that happened almost a million times to me.

[@NightDweller]

That f4 pawn was so strong

[@johndavidvaldez7408]

bruh your head looks like it's floating😂

[@kausthubh7541]

@agadmator’s Chess Channel - Hey Antonio can you recommend books for an intermediate player to improve?

[@argjentbeca5776]

Hey, could you show us Garri Kasparov vs Anand in 1995 were Kasparov starts with the evans gambit

[@unoprasad]

Louis Paulsen was such a strong player

[@GianpieroVenerosoMusic]

2:20 knight D4 to F3

[@andreaagostini4097]

I was also wondering, why not just doing that

[@duchi882]

"You can't rush Art"

[@cretudavid8622]

Good stuff........ What agony....

[@n20games52]

Wow, fifteen hours! I get impatient at around 15 minutes.

[@michaelmassaro4375]

White did appear stronger being he had the Rook but very intricate position with the pieces I was looking at that Be5 move but of course Qd1+ as well Great Game Thanks Agadmator

[@panda4247]

Funny how Morphy's head looks photoshopped to the body on his profile photo. Like it's floating over the photo. But now we have Antonio wearing a pitch black sweater, and his own head looks like it's floating in the space. E.g. at 0:51, but really most of the video

[@Mati-zc2ym]

18:55 Now we know what is a Grischuk strategy

[@brianbailey3374]

The brilliant Paul Morphy,thanks agadmator

[@conorfox7297]

I imagine Morphy was being cocky not taking that knight.

[@xxwilloffirexx235]

I think Morphy could go with knight on f3 with attack on queen while checking king.Just an opinion.

[@mariovanderwal1695]

How was time control decided back then, did both players just have as much time as they wanted?

[@joeb4142]

TheCheeser Yes

[@andreasmeyer8278]

You got Morphys sneaky idea at 2:15 wrong. Instead of moving the knight to b3 Morphy would surely have moved it to f3 with check. Paulsen would have been forced to take the knight with the pawn. Then Morphy would have picked up the white queen, again with check. He could pick up the bishop afterwards. Etc.

[@user-yc3tf4wz2x]

What if queen captures knight?

[@LukasMosser]

If they had an adjournment of the game until tomorrow will you do live coverage of morphy vs paulsen?

[@justabeardedguythatisahero9848]

@2:35 could not just morphy win the queen by check from the knight ??

[@sixjhontongalamar979]

Hashrima Senju The white Queen covers both e2 and f3 squares so the Queen would just capture it.

[@krenze1164]

19:03 let's measure time in Grischuks🤣

[@dannygjk]

Morphy must have temporarily lost the equivalent of 200 Elo in some games against Paulsen because of so many tanks by Paulsen. I bet Paulsen used at least 80% of the time spent to play this match.

[@TEKASHI-de1qt]

captures, captures

[@user-fr3xl]

Morphy was chess Legend

[@Joelk76]

Yessssssssss... Much better than the condidits

[@sinbadddx]

I wonder who the next saga will be on?

[@PushyPawn]

Chess clocks were introduced when one player believed he was playing classic while the other believed correspondence.

[@giriiyer3968]

Fantastic what a great quip

[@Angpie34]

Digging the new haircut!