Imagine The Unimaginable || Morphy vs Barnes (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 Thomas Wilson Barnes
Casual Game (1858), London ENG
Uncommon King's Pawn Opening (B00)
1. e4 f6 2. d4 e6 3. Bd3 Ne7 4. Be3 d5 5. Nc3 de4 6. Ne4 Nd5 7. Nh3 Be7 8. Qh5 g6 9. Qh6 Bf8 10. Qh4 Bg7 11. O-O O-O 12. c4 Ne3 13. fe3 f5 14. Neg5 h6 15. Nf3 e5 16. Qd8 Rd8 17. Bc2 ed4 18. ed4 Bd4 19. Nd4 Rd4 20. Rfe1 Kf7 21. c5 Be6 22. Rad1 Nc6 23. Rd4 Nd4 24. Ba4 g5 25. Rd1 Rd8 26. a3 f4 27. Nf2 Ne2 28. Kf1 Rd1 29. Bd1 Nd4 30. Ke1 Kf6 31. Kd2 Nb3 32. Bb3 Bb3 33. Ng4 Kg6 34. g3 h5 35. Nf2 Kf5 36. Kc3 Bd5 37. Kd4 c6 38. b4 Bg2 39. gf4 Kf4 40. a4 Bf1 41. Ne4 h4 42. Nd2 Be2 43. Ne4 g4 44. Nf2 Kf3 45. Ne4 Bf1 46. Ke5 Bd3 47. Ng5 Kg2 48. Kd6 Kh2 49. Kc7 Kg3 50. Kb7 h3
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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This truly is 'the good stuff'

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I know

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Chess at 60 frames per second! I can't imagine anything more thrilling.

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Karl Kaiser life in the fast lane

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Sadly just 480p in Covid hit regions

[@ruthik9921]

😂

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

How about 96 fps? At that rate you'll see contrails when the pieces move.

[@BLooDCoMPleX]

I told about it to all my friends at the library and they were amazed.

[@hornetgamer8980]

Ben Finegold: Never play F6. Thomas Wilson Barnes: Ben who?

[@jaywolfenstien]

No, no, no, no. You got wrong. See, Barnes KNEW Ben would lecture chess students over a century later, so he kindly demonstrated what not to do. Anything else would just be silly.

[@Dazzwidd]

Well yes, it was impossible for Barnes to know unless he was also a prophet as Finegold was born many years following the departure of Mr. Barnes 😅

[@george474747]

That guy attracts viewers who attach their ego to their chess rating, then wrongly project their insecurities on to these heroes. Morphy and Barnes aimed to play and win in style, not to win. Taking risks to do that didn't scare them, because they didn't have a childish attitude to defeat in a boardgame.

[@itwasinthispositionerinoag7414]

0:00 Hello everyone 0:02 The Good Stuff 0:16 Remake it at 60fps 0:38 0:51 9:58 11:35 Never play f6 0:40 Sorry about that 1:17 Never been reached again 3:40 Very sneaky idea 4:55 7:30 No stranger to chess 5:12 Captures captures 5:29 6:50 10:20 agadmator rap 7:20 That's not g6 9:13 Make him work for his meal 9:22 Zugzwang 9:50 Give you a couple of seconds 10:03 Enjoy the show 10:40 It was in this position 10:45 Nothing more to be done 10:54 Yes it is a very passed passed fast passed c pawn 11:27 agadmator of the past 12:21 Lounged forward at him 12:33 Friends at the bar and the library 12:51 Morphy saga 12:57 Have an excellent rest of your day TWICE

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Suspicious bishop?

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1:59 bishop??/

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Agadmator:Imagine The Unimaginable Me: Black starts e5

[@shabdsthapak4332]

and also both kings are checkmated

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@@shabdsthapak4332 watch the video where magnus carlsen is accused of cheating!

[@gregarityNow]

How about white starts e5 👀

[@shabdsthapak4332]

@@geckogeico2212 i said checkmated not check

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[@samuelbarahona8547]

I always like it when you remake famous games. The channel has grown a lot, and your analysis is a lot deeper than before, so not only can I appreciate these classic games more profoundly, but also a lot of new people will get a chance to see these old masterpieces. Thanks!

[@alar2266]

same, my ideal video length for agad is 15-20 mins (shorter if a blitz game, longer if a very important game like candidates, finals, men and women's world championships) so I like when he updates some of these great games he did earlier so they are longer than the 6-8min format.

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Agreed!

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Agree wholeheartedly. Agad's presentation skills are so much improved and I look forward to the "Hello everyone.." every time I click on a video. Thanks so much for putting this channel together.

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[@michaelmassaro4375]

@@louguy61he’s the Best my go to guy for a great analysis of Great Games 13:05

[@el_rey_gris9321]

Agadmator: "Barnes goes for none other than F6" Me (An absolute noob): "Hmmm, yes. F6

[@ianwhitchurch864]

As an "absolute noob", flick forward to the endgame and see how Barnes converted his advantage to a win. Remember, Morphy was pretty {expletive deleted} good at endgames. So watch, play it through, ask yourself 'what was the idea here' at each move, and learn.

[@Flickeralex]

Chess GMs: Noo! you can't just play f6 on the first move! Chad Barnes: haha f6 go gg wp mate

[@surveersingh2552]

f6 on the first move It seems as if he's doing this just so that agad would show it

[@myselfremade]

Or to annoy Ben Finegold

[@Sifter2K]

"F6? That's negative talent right there"

[@SenorQuichotte]

No Barnes did it get his opponent out of the book early.

[@woodys9841]

Barnes: *Thinking* "If i play f6 in move one, surely ill get featured in videos of the future on an international platform on which people spend their time watching games that are older than their grandparents"

[@silentoccasion4359]

@@woodys9841 lmfao

[@SnowSamuray]

Barnes suddenly claiming that place is my head reserved to the ABSOLUTE MADMAN

[@mar5567]

People: "You cannot win by starting with f6" Barnes: "Hold my beer ! "

[@drone231]

Hold my english cigar

[@romelsanimation7392]

Since I was eleven I start watching agadmator and now I am 15 and it is my birthday thank you agadmator for making chess video...and keep doing it..

[@mba4677]

Nice gg well aged bro

[@icantthinkofaname5950]

Thanks Agad. We love the good stuff.

[@sahilbaori9052]

@Matuscara I too

[@smrtfasizmu6161]

Even the endgame where Barnes won being a pawn up against a player like Morphy is impressive

[@basberger5921]

Barnes didn't just win he humiliated Morphy by playing F6 on the first move.

[@Cecilia-ky3uw]

F6 is named after him

[@stantheman143]

Bongcloud of it's time

[@wildexperiense]

40 seconds in and ben finegold is already out

[@SanityAardvark]

Good.

[@ChessMC]

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[@periodic98]

Lol

[@askthepizzaguy]

7 minutes into this and Barnes is in a superior position up a pawn in an endgame against Paul friggen Morphy. OUTSTANDING.

[@JuggernautSPQR]

2:00 that's a strange looking bishop ... :D

[@AM_-wg1hj]

Ben Finegold : Never Play f6 Barnes : lol

[@george474747]

Finegold would call Isaac Newton a weak physicist because he failed to incorporate the ideas of James Clerk Maxwell. I feel slightly sullied by even referencing such historical ignorance.

[@manigopal92]

This Barnes guy must be a funny and weird character in real life. You can tell a lot about a person looking at the way they play chess.

[@akashroy-gq4vy]

His cause of death was also kind of peculiar, he lost 130 pounds in 10 months , which resulted in his death

[@thatoneguy9582]

@@akashroy-gq4vy "It's called the Egyptian cleanse"

[@Dazzwidd]

@@akashroy-gq4vy sounds like cancer

[@RAVIKUMAR-nb5un]

"In this game Barnes deserve Morphy's head"

[@Mirrodin82]

Barnes played this one beautifully. I love crazy openings, they make games more interesting

[@Cnut_the_grape]

1:17 lol I remember reaching that position with my friend a couple of hours ago

[@johnaustin704]

The lesson I drew from this game is that underestimating one's opponent often does not work out well, even for someone as strong as Morphy!

[@1.4142]

overestimating your opponent also makes you nervous and decreases your performance

[@basicallyyes1796]

I think Eric Rosen (IM) unknowingly beated Magnus Carlson in an online game but it was just an account of Magnus so idk

[@alimehraban5040]

I just wanna thank you for this channel. I was away from chess for 9 years and suddenly KZbin recommended one of your videos and now I'm into chess again.

[@intelligentbishops7631]

Morphy used to play very natural games and believe me he has inspired me so much that even I started uploading chess!!❤️❤️

[@abhijeetjoshi2524]

Morphy and Tal were legends!!❤️❤️

[@intelligentbishops7631]

@@anteater1818 I am just telling facts no self promotion if you still think it's a strategy then sorry for it!

[@X-plaind]

There is nothing wrong in self promotion .. overall .. it's only chess that's getting prommoted.

[@user-yc6km3iw7c]

Thanks for your videos. I really enjoy the sagas that you produce, so keep up the good work! It's great to see the evolution of the game and the social history surrounding chess.

[@krishnapandit8190]

The quote attributed to The Great Akiba Rubenstien. Excellently covered as always.. :)

[@hideentity1518]

"If you need win with black, go for Sicilian" to make it more difficult go for Barnes ! 🤩

[@bartekAPOKALIPSA]

It actually scores pretty well in sub 2000 lichess rapid :D

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Me: *about to sleep* Agad: *post* Me: here we go again

[@johnaustin704]

Me too, Bro!

[@reflectivepizza2133]

Also agad: sorry about that

[@ChessMC]

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[@mathiasprehofer5184]

I really love this channel and I never thought I would ever write a complaint in the comment, but please either show the notifications that trigger the sound or turn of the notifications. To me, most likely also to others, just hearing the notification sound kind of takes the feeling of feeling of dedication towards chess away and makes me feel a bit like I am watching a Kids show on Nickelodeon.

[@panda4247]

I thought in previous 3 (or so) vidros, that the sound means checkmate. Apparently not, or it was bugged today. But I agree, I do not like the sound either.

[@Arthur_TV]

@@panda4247 The sound is from the twitch app, those are agad getting notifications that people have followed his channel. Really quite annoying.

[@netiora]

@@Arthur_TV Nice channel & vids mate, fancy seeing you here.

[@isaacsamuel9520]

Is it just me who feels happy for Barnes??

[@finalhour60]

After a long time seeing a match where Paul morphy lost in a game .these many days I found only videos on KZbin where Paul morphy won . first time watching his defeat .

[@drbriansilverman2493]

Such an amazing game! Thank you so much for sharing!

[@alessandrogambardella]

welcome back to the good stuff: 1. ... f6 well yes, but actually no

[@kalpakgupta]

A few notifications go off. Says "Sorry for the sound" in next video. Such a good man.

[@canadianbehaviour8280]

Keep it up! Really loving the content!

[@samuelbarahona8547]

Is it me or does it look like Madman Mr. Barnes only eats hardtack for every meal

[@nextgenfootball69420]

he looks like ron swanson

[@ChessMC]

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[@vendingdudes]

...and canned fish

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

@@fennecbesixdouze1794 So... a really good-looking corpse then.

[@user-ky1sk7kr6t]

Playing the 'bad' openings is the best way to tell your opponent that you got the skill to make them work.

[@surveersingh2552]

No day goes by without a video I love this channel baby..

[@tomheuser4545]

i love the rivalry of those two, maybe you would like making a video about their shared history or something. always love the videos , thx man

[@thehooper7078]

This is an awesome channel!

[@yarielrobles9003]

Barnes summoned his inner finegold to defeat morphy

[@cullanhamilton1539]

I love learning about this man Barnes. Absolutely would be at my coffee date of historical figures. I keep trying to make the Barnes opening and defense work in my games. I really admire him.

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Thanks for this!!

[@Dazzwidd]

This Barnes fella was a pretty strong player, I'm actually impressed 👍

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I'm really glad this channel exists

[@adrianmisak07]

i know none of these chess players, yet I always have a favorite.

[@DaveNeve]

Barnes is truly a unique player. He plays stuff that no one else would consider but then holds his own and even wins. He was surely the sneakiest player around at that time. By the way, he died in a really peculiar way according to Wikipedia.

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Loving the good stuff in 60fps

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awesome videos man

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Fantastic vision! Thanks.

[@torstenaan]

I really enjoy watching all the videos on this channel, but this saga is amazing. I really hope that Ron Swansons ancestor wins some day

[@joshmusyoka7317]

I'm new to chess (1100) but, grateful that such a great teacher such ad agadmator does exist. Thank you, for being a great teacher.

[@jasongoodacre]

I should be sleeping but I've just been notified there's a new Morphy game to look at.

[@jamescrowley229]

I'm so early that the time stamp guy isn't even here yet.

[@chilakashalemraju3668]

Excellent! Nice presentation

[@michaelmassaro4375]

I hate losing endgames like that those pawns so important at the end of game Great Game Much Thank Agadmator

[@SimBol1216]

Barnes looks and acts like the Theodore Roosevelt of chess.

[@cogybear]

Anyone else hypnotised by Morphy's eyes? I keep realising I'm staring at Morphy instead of the game 8-)

[@pathutchison9866]

I’m more hypnotized by the fact that his hair looks like he’s wearing headphones, especially in the black and white picture.

[@thatoneguy9582]

FBI

[@gediminaskontrimas7992]

60 frames per second effect

[@evanoramorphy2573]

it should be called the “Defy Ben Finegold” defence xD

[@rickelmonoggin]

"How the channel looked a long time ago". I think the cushions might have been arranged a bit differently on the sofa.

[@andrewptob]

Former Us: never understood why he would say “Sorry about that”. Current Us: now we understand but he doesn’t turn the sound off. 😄

[@ihatemylife9561]

What is he doing when he does that?

[@andrewptob]

He is turning down his computer volume, but we never used to be able to hear it. Now we can hear it, but he doesn’t notice. 🤷

[@mohamme2211]

Checkmating Morphy is a herculean task!!!

[@ayushagarwal10]

Welcome back to good stuff - agatmator 2020

[@roarroon1666]

I‘m really enjoying the war between these legends

[@williammcguire130]

This is the one Morphy he's lulled into overreaching with a strange opening and then he's got a middle game where there's just too much going on.

[@ayushagarwal10]

As always..I am here to enjoy the show

[@martingrillo6956]

Haha. "Just H6 takes care of all of my troubles." (3:16) I strongly like the idea.

[@MichaelPiz]

#suggestion For every standard opening, there had to have been a game where it was played for the first time. Maybe do a series showing those games?

[@psykkomancz]

Actually some openings, like Italian, Spanish, Sicilian, are so old that to find first game played like this is impossible.

[@kajetangorski1960]

The quote is atributed to none other than the great Akiba Rubinstein.

[@joycejulep9115]

Thanks for being here for us, Agadmator!

[@shubhamsrivastava6169]

agad can never run out of contents as he will keep repeating all the videos in higher frames per sec

[@gmpillo604]

Morphy CRUSHED the best players of his time, taking chess as a childhood past time... retiring at 13 after smashing Lowenthal, coming out of retirement at 20 to kill time and show the chess world who was boss, he studied and played little chess by any chess master standar and so was at the BEGINNING of his true chess potential, yet was essentially invincible... as Anderssen himself said so... yeah the greatest chess genius in history

[@polofmb2031]

WHat I literally JUST watched the old version of this video

[@georgeray649]

Excellent Agad

[@01Thal]

Thomas Wilson Barnes is definetly a new favourite player

[@Attlanttizz]

You should probably turn off twitch when you're making these videos... and apologize when doing so, of course ;-)

[@pozzowon]

Is that funny noise from twitch?

[@Attlanttizz]

@@pozzowon Yes

[@peely12345]

“Sorry about dat”

[@TheZotmeister]

@@pozzowon Indirectly. Twitch itself doesn't make sounds like that, but it's the default sound StreamLabs (a web service Twitch streamers like to use) has for getting a new follow. Antonio must have his recording software somehow playing that notification even when NOT streaming, and not showing it visually... which frankly makes no sense and is completely avoidable (heck, you'd have to WORK at it to make that happen). So that sound is triggered by people following his Twitch channel while he's recording this and being very silly.

[@rickdonnelly4284]

My audio setup must suck, because I have been trying to figure out why he is apologizing for months. I should have just asked.

[@antoniobreaux1584]

This is the good stuff 👌

[@jiffpop5143]

i just had a realization - the number at the end of the video's title isn't the elo of the players, it's the year the game was played. i've watched like 100 of your videos and i've just now come to this. it takes effort to be as smart as i am

[@riadsaid5234]

Every time morph loos or draw I feel aching in my hearts all my love to morph God bless his soul

[@RealCurrencies]

It was a weak opening by Barnes, but he played it with a nice plan, after this e5 break he was already at least equal. Morphy responded inaccurately, but I'm sure he was not well prepared. F6 can be a reasonable opening move. Black can just continue with g6, Bg7, Nh6-f7, d6 and e5, this is a reasonable set up.

[@mrprince6467]

what impressed me in this game was the defensive resilience of mr barnes , espacially those pawn moves on the king side in the opening and midlle game , he knew exactly what he was doing , probablly he expected those moves because he played f6 alot in his life , but still that was impressive , he was like petrosian in disguise

[@randomperson1418]

Agadmator: Bishop to H5 2:00 Me: Isnt that a queen?

[@edoardoprevelato6577]

Chess community: you just don't open with f6 Barnes: AND WHO DECIDED THAT!?

[@blackoutgenez]

nux?

[@neojake9389]

Escanor Sama da

[@brightnight8831]

0:58 lol it's awesome Agad always knows what they said during the game

[@clevereduardosilva2346]

Share with your friends in the library.... Truly nerdy remark

[@saugatbasnet4452]

I am not that good in chess, still I love to watch each & every video related . Came from algorith but stuck in addiction 💙

[@arijitkundu5577]

Thank u. It's a very good game.

[@filippopioltino6264]

The quote over the board is from Akiba Rubinstein

[@george474747]

@5:06 "Barnes doesn't care" - not a bad t-shirt idea.

[@freedomofspeech2700]

"And it is as of move 4 that this position never reach again" if said- 'for some good reasons' morphy wins if continue- Barnes wins

[@weinboyz]

We love the Hamilton quote

[@SenorQuichotte]

I remember when the original was new. MadMax Barnes with the insane F6 beats the Morphyhead

[@muddledlion9593]

Quality content

[@OfficialFoliLucker]

Very rare gameplay, thanks agad!

[@SonuGupta-wj6dg]

Liking your videos a lot agad. Can you cover the return game series of Tal vs botvinnik ? If not the few best games?

[@GlorifiedTruth]

Morphy: Barnes:

[@bharadwajparameswaran6237]

Ben: Never play ...f6! Barnes: f6 pawn goes brrrr

[@gianniskarousis5600]

"And it's as of move four that this position has never been reached again" Don't underestimate my 420 bullet