This Happens To All of Us || Morphy vs Löwenthal (1858)

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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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Paul Morphy vs Johann Jacob Loewenthal
"Tonight, Let it be Lowenthal" (game of the day May-21-2009)
Morphy - Loewenthal (1858), London ENG, rd 8, Jul-30
Philidor Defense: Boden Variation (C41)
1. e4 c5 2. d4 cd4 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. Nd4 e5 5. Nc6 bc6 6. Bc4 Nf6 7. O-O d5 8. ed5 cd5 9. Bb5 Bd7 10. Bd7 Qd7 11. Re1 Bd6 12. Nc3 e4 13. Bg5 Ng4 14. Qd5 Bh2 15. Kh1 Qd5 16. Nd5 O-O 17. f3 ef3 18. gf3 Ne5 19. Re3 f6 20. Kh2 Rad8 21. Re5 fg5 22. Kg3 h6 23. c4 Rf7 24. Rae1 Kf8 25. c5 g6 26. c6 Rc8 27. c7 Rcc7 28. Re8 Kg7 29. Nc7
Materials used in research:
Paul Morphy: Pride and Sorrow of Chess by David Lawson
The Genius Of Paul Morphy by Chris Ward
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[@agadmator]

KZbin trolling me again with 360p. Give it a minute or two and hit that F5 :)

[@LeventK]

Sorry about that.

[@pratyush_3]

Ok

[@pratyush_3]

I can watch in 1080 agad, don't worry

[@salmanhabibazizi]

Press f5 while I give you a couple of minutes

[@Rahul_Chintu]

Still in 360p

[@juandiaz3651]

Totally agree with the final comment, showing the not so great Morphy games from the saga also really makes us understand that no one is perfect and everyone loses sometimes. Nice video and loving the saga, thank you Antonio!

[@riadsaid5234]

Ryan Flanagan you are hypocrites ignorant you never read the bible if you do read the bible you never say what you said I’m ready to challenge you I’m Jesus great grandson and I believe Jesus great prophet but God more greater and Jesus whiteout God nothing as everyone else Only one God I advice you to read the bible

[@adamleckius2253]

Was going to say this, well put sir! Besides the satisfying aspect of seeing legends be human, it'd be quite boring to only see victories - this game for example had great tension.

[@brownviking8609]

Riad Said What lmao

[@pulusukaushikreddy6998]

@@riadsaid5234 All hail Christ! Lord of Jews!

[@Aztemophyis]

I agree!

[@giannis.ioannidis.1995]

**My friends at the bar/library**: Morphy was a total beast! He obliterated everyone! **Me, the smartass**: Yeah but do you remember that game vs Löwenthal in 1858 when he made the wrong pawn push?

[@gg-qz2tb]

A good way to make a long wkward moment

[@bishalparajuli1166]

And in this position, frens resigned at BATL

[@blacktimhoward4322]

Waste of a comment

[@LeventK]

That moment your oppenent offers a draw and after you decline you just lose the game...

[@romariosalas2649]

been there, done that

[@reneeshparappurathu1874]

I had one where the opponent offered a draw i declined and then offered a draw when he was winning and he accepted the draw.

[@jasonkoch3182]

Were you watching my last game last night?

[@JohnSmith-ti3oy]

A tale as old as time...

[@abualibh9447]

😂 you want to cry after.

It was a mouse slip by Morphy, it happens to the best of us.

[@pokemonjynx1019]

mouse wasn't invented back then...

@@pokemonjynx1019 of course they were, alongside rats, pigeons, and other rodents.

[@Puschit1]

Agads confidence in the idea that we all frequent libraries regularily is cute.

[@seasideman]

I actually work in a library!

[@MrDaddys]

Its more of a disclaimer, "your friends at the library [wink,wink] and the bar"

[@thegorn]

The idea that I ever leave the house is cute

[@BinaryRex18]

Lmao what about his idea that we all frequent bars

[@josheike3543]

I recommend playing chess at cafes. I've met some cool people that way. Some cafes even have a chess board available for customers.

[@itwasinthispositionerinoag7414]

0:00 Hello everyone 0:02 15:42 The Good Stuff 0:21 Complicated yet simple/Simple yet complicated 0:30 Without further ado 0:35 6:29 Sorry about that 1:22 Never been reached again 1:39 8:36 8:55 9:50 10:23 12:49 13:06 Captures captures 4:38 (...cappers and captures!) 2:05 A lot of pressure 2:22 Double attack 2:40 Unless they're like Thomas Wilson Barnes 3:11 Star move 3:50 Really funny checkmate 4:36 Capture-fest 5:06 Okay to play f6 7:22 Completely lost 7:30 12:09 Give you a couple of seconds 7:45 12:18 Enjoy the show 10:40 Triangulation party 12:47 agadmator rap 13:13 It was in this position 13:37 Completely winning 13:58 14:57 15:31 So yeah 14:19 Complete snooze-fest 14:33 Friends at the bar and the library 15:06 Special message 15:21 Checkmate for life 15:43 Morphy saga

[@eatyourcreal9365]

Ty for infokzbin.info/www/bejne/jKTGYphpmpx6qbs

[@OfficialFoliLucker]

Wait how do you actually find all of these?

[@paradigmbear3876]

That 12:47 agadmator rap is 🔥.

[@cinegraphics]

"Simple yet complicated" :)

[@garyha2650]

"Sorry about that" remains one of life's greatest mysteries

[@Zyklic]

not really, he just fixes the computers volume

[@Mignon15]

He fixes the volume because the volume he uses for chess when playing is louder than for videos.

[@nextgenfootball69420]

whenever morphy loses, agad should take away the morphy head from morphy cause he wouldn't deserve it

[@devanshusharma4391]

That's just brutal 😂😂

[@ChargingCookie]

KZbin after refreshing to FullHD: Sorry about that.

[@gregarityNow]

This is beautiful 🙏

[@sotospan8409]

The rook joins the party, lol. That’s funny

[@shapeoffour2319]

Yeah. You can picture the rook entering the room and dancing around

[@Justchillin145]

@chessbrah

[@ryantheentrepreneur3388]

@@Justchillin145 @chessbrah

[@Richard--Fox]

First time?

[@akshayshrivastava9542]

I told this to my friends at the bar and library. *It was a very high quality conversation* . Thank you agadmator.

[@hideentity1518]

I wish Morphy have 2000 games to show. Just love him.

[@jasper5016]

He has more than 2000+ but we are not able to find those games.

[@halfaheartbongobongo]

As someone who's been trying to get more into chess these days - I find the basic principles about the pawn and king endgames to be fascinating. I'm one of those players where when I reach the king and pawn endgame I just kind of push stuff and hope for the best lol. Gotta keep studying it seems. Thanks!

[@lakshay-musicalscientist2144]

"Sorry about that" ~Agadmator 2020

[@guiladshmaya1]

Agadmator in every year...

[@reneeshparappurathu1874]

“Sorry about that” ~Agadmator 1987-Future

[@mysteryigen]

This was really helpful to me as I am learning end game

[@nitinvadher4599]

hearing "Welcome back to the good stuff" after a long day is very refreshing tbh

[@spandanroy8380]

From all the games I have seen, I believe that Morphy was actually quite imprecise in Endgames, simply because he didn't really get a lot of OTB practice. He generally played instantly and in endgames, that's sometimes quite costly.

[@gmpillo604]

Morphy didn’t have much experience playing endgames just because his opponents rarely survived that long

[@steakanator7236]

The endgame in general wasn't too heavily studied back then, since if you weren't sacrificing everything and smacking the other guy's king, were you really even playing chess? Still, Morphy's natural understanding of the game allowed him to play the endgame fairly well, this game notwithstanding. Game 3 of his 1857 Chess Congress match with James Thompson comes to mind: www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1336498

[@BinaryRex18]

He played the endgame well but of all aspects of chess, the endgame is the one which most resembles a computer. The only old player who can really match up to modern computer assisted players is probably Capablanca.

[@efey4797]

Ah yes, *as of move seven this position hasn't been reached again* ...

[@LeventK]

See you in Chess960

[@MrCjallaby]

As of move seven we have a completely old position.

[@dhamo6725]

Has never reached again

[@hornetgamer8980]

Some of the greatest games of all time are ones a non-titled player can appreciate and watch over and over, and yet find relatively little in there that they're able to actually take into their own games, because the ideas were so brilliant and so situational that the odds of being able to replicate the winning principle are slim. This, whilst decent, some might describe as forgettable. But it's very instructive.

[@umutberk4249]

At 5:41 morphy didn’t take the rook because he loses a pawn at the end of the variation.Rxd8 Qxd8 Bxc5 Qd1 Kf2 Qxc2 Kf1 and Qxc5 winning back the bishop and up a pawn.

[@siim-silversepp5145]

Thank you, this bugged me hard until you explained it!

[@kenbrown438]

Thanks for posting this game , it REALLY helps me !!!!

[@gmpillo604]

According to ChessBase Morphy lost 28 games during his carrier 11 with White 17 with black Including blindfold, odds and simul games

[@Therworldtube]

How much did he win?

[@BinaryRex18]

@@Therworldtube Idk but Chessgames.com has his win percentage at 84% from all his professional games...

[@BinaryRex18]

Yeah I just checked, he won 174 and lost 24 of his professional games, giving a win percentage of 84.9

[@Therworldtube]

@@BinaryRex18 Imagine contributing 3/8 of all Morphy's games

[@BinaryRex18]

@@Therworldtube Yeah it looks like 3/8 but then they excluded all of the exhibition and casual stuff, odds games in the rest of the 462. It would be interesting to know Morphy's win % when taking into account all the simuls, blindfold, friendly and odds games he played.

[@georgekanavos703]

I am really happy to see your progress and evolution throughout the years. You are doing an excellent job and you deserve everything you have achieved. Keep up with the good stuff! :)

[@giriiyer3968]

Back to back upload. Finally a continuation to the morphy saga without break.

[@photographyandthecreativeyou]

Please keep these coming!

[@keshavsharma3245]

Really like the way you explain things , it's not just about the match but special insight on what a beginner must know , e.g. these pawn pushing in this game.

[@tragelafikosmcmojo1673]

I'm here for the high quality conversation!!!

[@loicgagnon-messier5016]

Thank you for increasing my knowlege of endgames. I appreciate you! Have a great end of the week my guy!

[@gruvious]

thank you for showing us this game!

[@retrogaming459]

Really instructive video, thanks. ;)

[@misternewoutlook5437]

I'm completely good with showing Morphy's losses and especially when there are basic king and pawn end game principles to be learned from it. There are plenty of Morphy brilliances to see. Like you say, the saga wouldn't be a saga if it was just a one way street of Morphy victories. Plus, we get some insights of 19th century style and ideas.

[@stoneskull]

excellent game. thank you for bringing this classic to life for us. i especially love these games when it comes down to 1 tempo.

[@surgeonsergio6839]

13:11 Even Medo can't believe that just happened.

[@johnaustin704]

[@asteraxx2262]

For people wondering why at 5:41 , why you can't capture the rook wich deflects the queen then you capture the bishop , this is why.. Ok i found that it does not work as after all is exchanges, queen to d1 check (king moves to f2) then queen to c2 check picks up the bishop with a pawn

[@RyanHellyer]

I found this very informative. King pawn end games are something I'm not very good at, and so I found this quite educational.

[@prashamsht]

King and pawn end games are my favourite. Please keep streaming them. Thank you!!

[@cammysmith227]

Very instructive end game!

[@mikeholland6750]

you should award yourself the morphy head for spotting that line of conversation at 14:50

[@georgeray649]

Just loved this video

[@enblanchard5492]

" eh, sorry bout' dat" ... Knight to D2

[@giotto263]

In a world gone mad I love this wonderful, soothing chess oasis. Thanks.

[@moronesaxatilis]

You sir, Are the best at what you do, never change, always improve and continue to inspire teach and entertain us chess lovers. If you only knew how happy we subscribers are when you post a new video...... Thank you 🙏🏼

[@edwinomar7420]

before watching your videos i liked chess but after watching your videos ive develop a crazy obsession for chess, i cant stop playing. everytime i watch your videos i learn stuff i didnt know and it makes me wanna play chess even more.

[@medhachoudhary7446]

That quote on top gives me hope!!!

[@dbrouhard0804]

Wow, a shout out from agadmator - thanks babe, looking forward to the merch present you got me from his store. Aggy, love your videos, been subscribed since about 100,000 subscribers and have loved watching you grow and grow and grow, keep it up dude.

[@thegorn]

Douglas B For a moment there I though you were calling Antonio “babe”

[@dbrouhard0804]

@@thegorn That's funny, I can see your take. I grant Agad has a certain masculine charm to him and that voice...but he's spoken for as am I so perhaps in another life. ;-)

[@ravisejwal9556]

So much sarcastic title for the legend Morphy ... I always win and then showing game where he loses.

[@The1234sunny1234]

nice game! keep up the good work!

[@jerrickss4645]

Look at what Jose Capablanca says :- "You will have to lose hundreds of games to become a good player".

[@gmpillo604]

Morphy didn’t even lose 30 so... he didn’t become “Morphy Good”

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

Well... I've probably lost thousands, so I must be a superb player.

[@BinaryRex18]

@@gmpillo604 yeah but Capablanca himself considered Morphy to be peerless. He was probably speaking for the rest of us mortals lol

[@micharespondek1172]

Finally Agadmator admitted all of this is in fact just to impress the friends ATBATL.

[@prodVladka]

Agadmator drops the library and bar bomb again.

[@mingozzz1]

I love how you are handling the saga so far bro.

[@baycorllabel]

Pawn ending is really exciting, a lot of calculating moves not only with king but as you said pawn moves too are really important.

[@hasuchobogosu]

watching games like these and knowing the history instantly makes you the boss of the library

[@pipandchuk6545]

@agadmator's Chess Channel, I love the endgame, and have studied it for years. At 9:02, you mention gxf6 and of course black is lost, but what about Kxf6? This of course must be calculated, as it's VERY tricky! So, white goes KH4(g4 and WHITE would be on the verge of losing as he is in zugzwang), and then g6 by black, Kg4 by white, takes takes, and all of a sudden, black has the move e4!, because if white plays dxe4, then c4 and white is only barely in time to stop the pawn, while the black king is a very good defender of the two passed e and f pawns(but of course cannot take them). But after the black c-pawn is grabbed successfully, White is, again, winning. Just wanted to show you that gxf6 is NOT forced, and Kxf6 is defiantly, although losing, the trickier way to play as black! I think that gxf6 is just the automatic response, as it "fixes" blacks pawn structure. Anyway, thanks for reading, and I'd love a game in the future if that would be possible on Lichess. I'm @pipandchuk there too!

[@yugamgandhi7334]

Great video agad 🔥🔥

[@ahdeyy]

Holy molly, the earliest i have been for a video, good day mr antonio

[@nadifnoka1503]

I'm sure my friends at the bar and library will like such high quality conversation.

[@tele-marmotte]

This is a great saga :)

[@frankiegee6135]

4:04 beautiful checkmate I agree!

[@cindyanggraini374]

Yaa..i also enjoyed endgame lesson man..so yeah .thanx again for the video,keep it up ure the best!!

[@ahmedmeeran8607]

I'll definitely mention this game to my friends at the bar and the library ! especially the wrong pawn push

[@affanabdullah9549]

do ur thing **enjoys the show**

[@MarkYeung1]

Amazing pawn ending. If I am playing against Morphy, I will trade my pieces and go for the ending ASAP. Barnes outplayed him in the ending too.

[@ramonbannister9498]

The funny part is that there is actually a bar in a library that I know of. It's the main Boston public library. They renovated it at least a year ago. I was there once last year and noticed from afar a bunch of people in the middle of the day enjoying alcoholic drinks in the bar. They were all dressed like they were at the Royal Ball in London. It was obviously and unfortunately for upper-class or rich people, complete w/ a couple well-dressed hosts (in bow ties) manning the door. Not my type of place...Heck, bars in general aren't my type of place.

[@rkrmtest]

Phew! This shows the quality of end game!

[@TalsBadKidney]

Can you make a video showcasing some more of "the long opposition" of kings?

[@kirkmason7079]

Good lesson on pawn end game.

[@Seallussus]

Of course you should continue showing us those games you think are interesting. You can learn from a defeat as much as a win and those videos pain the full picture for us. How he won and also how he lost. A lot of us won't, for a reason or another, real the full history of Morphy or other players and so this is one of the few places that we can get the big picture without spending too much time.

[@sammyflowproductions933]

I agree. Show them all!

[@pierpaolopoli5670]

After hundreds of videos, I was finally able to perceive the meaning of the initial soundcheck at 0:35, probably due to the echo of the sound of the pawn! :)

[@IchMagZwiebel]

Actually, I really liked this game as i really enjoy the king&pawn endgame, thanks for the videos

[@hikarunakamura5685]

When you are so early that the video is only available in 360p.

[@LeventK]

Nickname is definitely your own name.

[@cinegraphics]

Yeah, that's a real Nakamura just like I'm a real Paul Morphy.

[@harethhamad1142]

You still the best Just add more suspense to the videos, not just for the title but also for the intro. Specially when you analyze old games. Wish you all the best Antonio

[@swapnilpupulwad9445]

Loved the game

[@samueldunham6411]

I like this game, thanks! It will help my game, too.

[@dark_magician_sdy]

Love it!

[@tatetadeng9616]

Evendo many grandmaster opened KZbin channel... I always prefer this channel... The best👍👍👌👌

[@marcom.88]

I didn't see Morphy's A and B pawns in the thumbnail and thought Löwenthal was somehow up 2 pawns :)

[@abhishektodkari7760]

It's only 4 minutes and someone disliked already😂 Dude at least watch the video.

[@140TrillionSuns]

he dont need to see he know what he is doing HATERRRRRR

[@samuelterpak1]

Ben Finegold

[@takatotakasui8307]

@@samuelterpak1 lol

[@dixydo]

Philidor Defense: Boden Variation (C41) 1. e4 c5 2. d4 cd4 3. Nf3 Nc6 What?!

[@parsafakhar]

agree with your comment on morphy saga, show everything

[@move_i_got_this5659]

I think I speak for everyone, we very much enjoy all the games you show.

[@lindenhile3372]

Strange to see Morphy blow the endgame twice in the span of ~15 moves

[@dimitardimovski8240]

So at 5:43 if rook takes on d8 isn't that crushing because the queen would be forced to take and then the bishop on c5 hangs ?

[@raviel9501]

Nope, black would actually get free pawn,, after white took the bishop, its gonna be a check by black queen and then pick pawn at C2 while getting the white bishop next

[@iaminvincible4441]

Great game

[@acamoravac]

Good stuff yess!!

[@soorajpisal8255]

Agadmator being sarcastic. 1:17

[@nemadison]

Agree with the final comments as well. When you see game after game of Morphy just wrecking these people you can start to believe he's just playing scrubs... but Lowenthal, Bird, Anderssen, Stanton were the best of the era, and could easily punish mistakes.

[@high1ight520]

5:45 Why cant white capture rook on D8 with check, queen recaptures and then capture bishop on C5?

[@rishabapriyan7138]

I think , after e takes on c5 - black has Qd1x check. one of the possibilities king to F2: Qd2X with check and after king moves grab that bishop on c5

[@rishabapriyan7138]

nice tactic though😌

[@Livestreamlurker]

After Bxc5 Qd1+ Kf2 Qxc2+ Kf1 Qxc5

[@nicholasjohnston6684]

Do a video on the game carlsen played against pudri I think. There was a really nice queen sac

[@guywhoneversleeps]

please show these games! first off, they are instructive. second, is that they show that even the flashiest player needs to play solid chess to be the best!

[@johngoodall5473]

Higher quality conversations.

[@douglasquaid7550]

Thanks Ivy

[@nickrees4706]

‘We have a capture fest on the D5 square. Captures, captures. We have captures and captures”

[@01Thal]

About the Capa quote; What did he know about losing chessgames, he is probably talking about some other board or cardgame

[@andrewptob]

I enjoyed the humans doing the dance of the engines

[@mattroxursoul]

Wow did not expect to see Morphy lose an endgame like that.

[@DarshanShah10]

@agadmator the pgn in the description is the incorrect one

[@CJ-vc7ts]

Agad literally doesn’t miss maybe even the perfect KZbinr?