Morphy Misses Mate in 5 After A Queen Sac - Can YOU Spot it?

[@nabisco0523]

Please agad, show as many Morphy games as possible. I know pretty much every chess channel ever has covered all his games, but your commentary is so superior to everyone else.

[@chessidiot1754]

you want morphy games mate..? here is a quick one... kzbin.info/www/bejne/emnbZnqOhM6ggac

[@mozisi]

Bitchy ChessTube That was one hilarious game analysis. Kudos mate!

[@chessidiot1754]

Thanks Guys....

[@AucklandHD]

)))))

[@AbrarKarim]

Hope you're enjoying the Morphy Saga.

[@antonio-3162]

I used to play chess at an intermediate level when I was young (12-14 years old). Then, for some reasons, I nearly abandoned it for a decade until I found your channel by chance. You made me discover the beauty of chess again. Thank you!

[@persha3544]

4:03 the rook captured an invisible piece xD

[@Gh-xz3vc]

Persha かみーさま I Noticed That Too , Had To Rewind To Make Sure I'm Not Hallucinating

[@xyon9090]

*Persha かみーさま,* Was about to comment this. Antonio makes mistakes like that from time to time haha.

[@lucasbattistella5400]

Typical human, isn't he?

[@jeltflicks6514]

Me too.

[@wetigaz]

no that’s the sound it makes when a move is made with check

[@mohammadaminsarabi6207]

Morphy: help your pieces to help you Tal: sacrifice your pieces!

[@michaelmendillo4614]

After reading the Title,,, I already knew that if Mr .Morphy missed it, there is no way I am going to see it !!!! Lol !!!! 😁🖒✌

[@burt591]

Probably that Ra2 was a mouse slip by Louis Paulsen

[@josephcoleman57]

lol

[@dem0ns588]

burt591 and you did a keyboard slip with Ra2

[@dolphinsneu]

He probably intended Qc2

[@elaadt]

Fast forward 2 years after release of this video and we get the Morphy saga. The good stuff!

[@itzMoJo67]

one of the main reason this is by far the best chess chanel out there, is agamators knowledge of chess and it's history. he knows quotes and facts about the most obscure players. you should be commentating at the world chess championships. to the very least doing the interviews and such.. be way better than Maurice Ashley lol

[@joecaves6235]

2:14 looks like Agad in the picture, middle right above the board.

[@srinivasashankar8513]

Morphy was so ahead of his time

[@Alex55385]

while i agree that the rook a1 to a2 move by paulsen is not great to me i think his reasoning would be so that morphy is then more or less forced to exchange (or sacrifice!) queens because now the the c2 square is covered by the rook. i think it makes sense for paulsen to want to have the queens off the board and simplify the game against morphy

[@ericbender7404]

MORE MORPHY PLEASE!!!!

[@chessidiot1754]

you want a morphy game mate..? here's a quick one kzbin.info/www/bejne/emnbZnqOhM6ggac

[@kal386]

That picture of morphy creeps me out

[@jamesfleming1155]

kalvin katwal he looks like an Oompa Loompa lmao.

[@rachebrother5349]

kalvin katwal he looks like a Snob

[@onelongwordable]

kalvin katwal yeah looks like he's computing how to murder you and get away with it

[@jackal8607]

It’s the retarded hair flailing out to the sides mixed with the grumpy/evil/mad looking face.

[@aboodykarjy8068]

more of morphy please 💜💜💜

[@chessidiot1754]

you want morphy games mate...? here's a quick one kzbin.info/www/bejne/emnbZnqOhM6ggac

[@ApurvaSukant]

Good to change your format a bit to show related content during the game. I really enjoyed the photo of the tournament in between. Proper use of these elements elevates your videos from mere commentary to a wholesome chess program. Please do include more of these!!

[@unfrostedfortnite8133]

lol in that picture you showed of morphy he looks so tiny bc he was! he stood 5ft 4 and in his 20s was often mistaken for a 15 year old.

[@onyonable]

Unfrosted - what is the final height of morphy when he reached 25? Fully grown

[@ostensiblyquerulous]

Considering average heights of the time, that would be like 5'7" ish today. Not big of course, but not as incredibly tiny as it might seem to modern standards.

[@lindenhile3372]

ostensiblyquerulous Paulsen must've been really tall then because he really towers over Morphy

[@Tallturk]

It was so nice to see two different versions of this from Agadmator

[@thegorn]

Morphy had the best haircut

[@oscaro.172]

Does Re6 also work at 6:20?

[@Johaylon]

I actually saw another check mate, I think this also works. 1)...Bg1+ 2)Kg1 Bf3+ 3)Kf1 Rg2 White has a couple of moves here but none of them work 4)d4 Rxh2 5)Rd3 Rh1# or 4)Qe2 Rxe2 5)d3 Rxh2 6)c4 Rh1# or 4)Qc8 Rxf2+ 5)Kg1 Rg2+ 6)Kf1 Rg1# Well, it was 6 moves tops. But it was worth a shot!

[@francescoserra6026]

Johaylon you forgot 4 Qd3, which forces the f3 bishop away. Anyway, this is a winning position, so anything would just win you the game, if you don't blatantly blunder

[@noone-qu5ec]

Actually that mating pattern could have been done on 5:24 onwards and Qd3 does'nt forces the f3 bishop to move cause there's Rxf2+ and after Kg1 Rg2+ Kf1 Rg1#

[@xHanz0x]

Hello Agadmator. About the move Ra2, i think he did it in order to play first Ba3 without leaving the pawn in d2 unprotected, then may be double up the rooks on the a file by playing Rfa1 to attack the a7 pawn and tying the bishop at b6 to its defense, then retreating the bishop to c1 again.

[@nathanoubre395]

Been killing it with the videos as of late 🔥

[@multiclockwise]

At 3:46 why not Qxf1?

[@NoNAME-qi9tq]

Morphy Is my favorite chess player to study. I am so glad you did this video!

[@rgsliwa8298]

Morphy played the constriction of kings movements. Brilliancy.

[@kellamyoshikage286]

Isn't 5:31 the same position after black's move as Morphy's possible 1st move in mate in 5?

[@Robi2009]

I like these old games for those classical 1. e4 e5 openings. Nowadays 90 % of tournaments is 1. d4 Nf6 or Sicilian after e4...

[@fox2569]

$300 in 1857 is about 40k today. And he turned it down...damn what a boss. Great game as always.

[@csaba116]

at 5:28 same checkmate would be after Bishop g4, am i right?

[@AwkwardTurtle311]

3:28 paulson plays rook a2 preparing to go queen c2 if/when morphy pushes c5 attacking the queen :)

[@Kings_Quest]

At 3:45, instead of QxF3, why not Queen captures F1, if king captures then rook E1 is mate, and if Queen captures then again Rook E1, Queen captures is pretty much forced, and then second rook to E1 is mate. Can anybody check if there's a defense?

[@victoroliva5347]

Beautiful, that's why I love chess.! Thanks Agad.

[@andrewnewton7103]

Brilliant analysis, thanks

[@projectryan88]

at first I thought paulsen played Ra2 to defend the d2 pawn so that he can eventually move the c1 bishop. But the more I thought about it, I thought no that is not it. He actually played Ra2 to stop Qc2. He seen the threat of doubling rooks and sacrificing the queen on f1 that morphy was threatening, and like you said prepared to play Qa6 next move only after the rooks were doubled to parry the threat. But he clearly missed Qxf3 :P

[@salamanderguy3270]

at 7:00 you said there is only one way to stop this, but what about white moving his queen to d 3, so if the bishop moves there for the check mate the queen captures him and it appears the position would still be fine for both then

[@dolphinsneu]

This is a much better defense, but after f5, black still should win

[@aram9167]

This game's finish is the first puzzle in Informant's Encyclopedia of Chess Tactics ;)

[@giriiyer3968]

I believe why Paulsen played rook to A2 is bcoz after Queen to d3. All his pieces were barricaded in the first rank so he brought his queen out at A4 then rook to A2 to cover pawn on c2 and then play bishop from c1 to A3 and complete his development

[@stresss4188]

You said yourself that in order for morphy to deny the queen trade he would have to move his queen to c2, the rook a2 prevents that move.

[@dineshchandrasekeran7370]

At 3:50 why didnt the black queen take on Rook f1 followed by its doubled up Rook attack on the king?

[@davidburkhardt9390]

Wouldnt queen to d3 stop checkmate, guarding h3 , in your forced mate scenario?

[@madsingh3336]

Bishop captures d3 is checkmate

[@MrEmon-co9jr]

I have no idea why people are unlikeing this games ???? on his channel.

[@Charccy]

3:08 .. (Ra2) actually we can just presume why he played it 'cause this rook didn't come to game any more, but I think Paulsen didn't expect a queen sacrifice, so he still wanted to free his d-pawn and was sure that Bd1 and Bc2 now protected by Ra2, will do the job. His plan failed for a certain reason - as GM Kruno Hulak said : "I'm always playing the best moves .. if my opponent does allow it".

[@stormxploit3675]

My idea to checkmate was : Re1+ R×e1 Bxf2 and how do you def the checkmate in g1, or g2

[@aniketbramhankar5980]

wow Bf5 was a brilliancy..did u find it @agadmator or u saw it on engine cause I didn't find it at all!

[@sohansubrat4669]

Hello agadmator, bro plz upload more and more games of Paul morphy, Mikhail tal, rashid nezhmetdinov.

[@shubhamrahinj6864]

Show us more paul.morphy games...he is greatest chess player of all time ...morphy beat the opponent always in the style...

[@BolBeats217]

#suggestions Please can you find and show the game that hikaru nakamura lost in south africa ?!

[@log234]

#suggestion I'd like to see your analysis of Anand - Carlsen 2013, game 9. It had some incredible situations.

[@bazcuda]

HI, Can you tell me what would be the flaw(s) in playing something like: ...Bg2+, Kg1 Re1+, Rxe1 Bh3+, Kh1 Bxf2 attacking the white Rook and planning Bg2# Thanks (and subbed!)

[@proxor4742]

I probably missed an announcement, but I wonder; Do you actually stream League of Legends on Twitch or do you stream Chess?

[@chrisgarcia2171]

@ Agadmator iv watching your videos for quite some time now and it has become part of my daily routine. In my opinion Your commentary on interesting games is unmatched on youtube. I just have one question. how do you pronounce your name?

[@agadmator]

+Chris Garcia Try doing it like a Russian, I guess :)

[@stephenpratte114]

it's part of my daily routine now too, and when you hear him pronounce it, it's not the way you would think, he says it in one of his videos I forget which one , but when he said it I had to rewind bcuz I was like"who is he talking about?" then I realized he was saying agadmator.....lol

[@kimgysen10]

Isn't the rook move maybe to protect the pawn on d2 to prepare the bishop to move? Although I wouldn't know where to lol.

[@kavyanshagrawal5279]

Probably at 5:26 Morphy could have won faster by playing rook g2 instead of Bg2+ with the idea of capturing on h2 and then rook h1 mate and their is no defence against this idea or if after rook g2 if white plays rook e1 then simply Rc2+ after king moves Rook takes d1+ queen blocks rook D takes queen checkmate

[@DaDerpyCarrot]

its cool how I just got an ad for Garry Kasparov's Masterclass before the vid started lol

[@krzysztofgrochowski710]

I think 16. Ra2 is actually a very smart move (apart from the fact that it loses to Qxf3, but obviously Paulsen didn't see that one). The idea for white is to push d4 and than black is much worse. Black has doubled pawns on the c file, his dark square bishop is dead forever. Maybe black's able to hold it, but if antyone is playing for a win it's white. So in order to push d4 white wants to play Qa6, get rid of black's queen and go d4. It deosn't matter if black exchanges queens or if he plays Qf5 or Qg6, white simply pushes d4 and he's great. But the problem is that after an immediate 16. Qa6 black goes 16...Qc2 and white can't go d4, because the pawn on c3 is hanging. White also can't chase black's queen away with 17. Ra2 now, because black goes 17... Qb3 18 Qa3 Qc4 if white goes 19 d4 after 19... Rae8 black threatens Qxf1 or simply Re1 and white king is exposed and his pieces are misplaced. I think he survives after something like 20. Be3, but with black dominant queen od c4 attacking the pawn on c3 the position is rather unclear. Black has some problems and the endgame is worse for him, but there's no clear way for white to exchange pieces. Black can also go f5, h6, g5 to limit white's bishops, especially the one one e3. So after 16... Qc2 white probably has to repeat and chase black's queen around c2, b3, c4 and d3 and it's a draw. My guess would be, that with 16. Ra2 Paulsen was actually playing for a win, because if black queen is on f5 or g6 instead of c4 it's far less active and it's easier for white to exchange material, but he simply missed the tactics with Qxf3 which is not a move you would consider in such postion. Unless you are Paul Morphy of course.

[@Danszt]

i have a book that says that Paulsen played rook a2 to try exchange queens and play d4

[@ujjwaldahal1188]

Wasn't Bd3 an option.. To protect the pawn at e4?

[@markjovan123]

02:01 wow it seems it was more fun playing tournament in this era, it's more like having a quality time with friends than competing (LOL)

[@v.gopalakrishnan350]

It is surprising Paul Morphy missed that five move combination ending in mate! One more game that highlights the genius of Morphy!

[@dolphinsneu]

He also missed another forced mate earlier

[@oskarhenrik766]

Agad. Someone else made a comment on this 2 months ago, and I agree with him. You should consider changing your channel name to something like "agadmator" or "agadchess". This will probably make your channel grow even faster. Both because it's a catchier name, and also because it's just simpler. "Chess channel" seems pointless for a fairly large channel, and seems a bit "nooby". Love your shit man, I'm addicted! (:

[@violetasuklevska9074]

3:27 I'm not too sure maybe it's looking to support queen c2, push the d-pawn and get the darksquare bishop activated, but queen a6 is faster

[@violetasuklevska9074]

and then he still chose Qa6

[@TheTinnin]

I think Rook a2 was played to liberate the dark-square bishop so that it can move and not be tied down to defending pawn on d2. no?

[@007jumbo]

Please show Paul Keres all games

[@thechair124567]

can you please do a kramnik game?

[@CinnamonSandman]

Paused, tried, couldn’t solve. Great puzzle!

[@kevindubois5897]

This picture of the game is real. Morphy was about 5'4'' and Paulsen was over 6 feet tall.

[@agadmator]

+Kevin DuBois Thanks :) That's probably why Morphy lost the one game, Paulsen was too intimidating :D

[@lizmutton4527]

4:03 rook to g6 agadmator, Not rook captures on f6!

[@Bouchamla]

Instead of Be4 and Bf5 I think B*d1 is a winning move also threatening Te1 followed by Tg1#

[@notreallycent]

Hey, what software chess board are you using? And please more morphy games. Thank you

[@kbrecords4518]

Jem Gonz chess.com analysis

[@noone-qu5ec]

This is one of my favorite morphy games and sorry agadmator but Qxf3 is a very sound move... I even analyzed it with an engine and stockfish finds this move in 10 secs. and your reputation Qd3 is matched with f5!

[@ficosekk]

I know its been a year but i totally agree,f5 and white is just lost

[@dolphinsneu]

Yes. After Qc4+ Kf8 Qf4+ Bxf2 should give black a winning attack

[@Thaertios]

KingsCrusher did a good video on why paulsen played Ra2 instead of Qa6

[@FalConXG]

You look like Peter Bishop from the show "Fringe".

[@mithunraj6529]

Which game did Morphy lost in this tournament? I would like to see that game on your channel aswell :)

[@haricharanbalasundaram3124]

Agadmator the idea behind Ra2 was that the queen can't escape to c2 while Paulsen offers an escape of queens

[@MichaelHarrisIreland]

R to a2, he was then going to bring his queen to C2 to exchange queens but then went a different route because of the double rooks.

[@hardyjohnaphan7335]

7:00 how about Qd3

[@madsingh3336]

bishop captures d3 is mate

[@juliusuus]

Paulsen probably played Ra2 to support the d2 pawn..

[@damohanson5393]

Morphy had some funky hair styles. Looks like the biggest party in town.

[@kshgarg147]

Rook a2 so that he can develop the bishop may be?

[@footballmaster_2]

Buen explicación.

[@DeineMatnr2]

#suggestion pls analyse some Games of Rudolf charousek Great attacking player

[@egidijuskuprusevicius4225]

just 2 or 3 moves more and checkmate is given so he is not missing he is choosing the way he would checkmate

[@gringo2119]

I think on 5:27 you have rg2 and you can checkmate even faster

[@agadmator]

+Tomi Macia Yes, one move faster :)

[@seabrush]

..but after Rg2, white plays Re1 & there's no mate :)

[@raymondcarpenter7269]

when black played Qa6 QXf1 instead of Qxf3, no mention of.

[@thriceblessed05]

There is one more checkmate, in 4 moves it goes like this bg2, kg1, bf3, kf1, be2, ke1, rg1 checkmate

[@Kiriranshelo911]

Paulsen moved A2 maybe because he didn't want the Black queen in c2

[@agadmator]

+Andrea Rugal Seems reasonable :)

[@Kiriranshelo911]

may i ask you to think about a compilation for bad players like me? i would love to improve but i don't know how, also suggesting some books to read or something like that :( maybe someone like you can help me ^^" ty for the great videos btw, i started following not much time ago and they are short and many, i like them very much.

[@S0ftlock.]

Andrea Rugal try bobby Fischer's book on chess, it's good for intermediate players since it explains important aspects in a good way

[@vik027]

Or develop bishop to A3 (protect pawn on d2)

[@aaronwafflart6010]

I did not know morphs before but he is AGADAMAZING

[@DidierPilon]

I did not find the mate :(

[@singingintherain4750]

me neither

[@Rozq]

Isn't there a mate in 4 at 3:34 though? Black queen can pick up a rook, next to the king. White queen recaptures and then you just have two rooks against a queen; and the king cannot escape. Or am I missing something?

[@SuperKrizma]

Rozq well there is no mate, when you put your rook to a-file and pin the queen white simply doesn't have to capture. Queen just stays there.

[@Rozq]

you're right, thanks!

[@TheStephCurry]

The rook a1 to a2 move maybe he wanted to move the bishop yo c1 to a3 so the rook would have protected the d pawn

[@KevinTempelx]

Louis Paulsen played rook to A2 to prevent Morphy from playing his queen to C2 after Paulsen moves his queen to A6 to ask for the exchange.

[@planeshaperman]

You could have been kinder and showed us the mate in 4 position right before the mate in 5 position

[@zombieperson620]

Come on, Morphy doesn't miss forced mates. He probably had about 2 seconds left on his clock, so this was the best he could come up with.

[@sumathim5300]

I think louis paulsen doesn't want to allow QC2

[@jackma3674]

What did rook capture on G6 lol 😋😋😋

[@CV_CA]

2:15 There are 4 figures on the board

[@ekagunadi1934]

Probably the rook moves to a2 to prevent queen to c2... idk tho

[@kneeslapper3462]

4:02 the rook is not capturing.

[@adwaithkj]

Maybe Ra2 was a waiting move

[@Kanterneit]

Louis played Rook to a2 because maybe he want to protect the pawn of d file, he is preparing to bring the dark square bishop into the game.(maybe)