Paul Morphy falls Victim to 1...f6! - Who is Mr. Barnes?

[@saamspam6127]

Barnes plays f6 on the first move and beats Morphy. Ben Finegold's worst nightmare

[@Wurschtbi3b]

6 fth horrible!

[@ThhVkk]

6 fth Mr Barnes played f6 and Morphy cried

[@jamesfleming1155]

6 fth best comment ever

[@nakulbam5067]

6 fth lol

[@dxkaiyuan4177]

Cry like a grandmaster

[@Ericbryanmr]

Loved that insight into Morphy's strength: "he had the best score against Morphy; he won 8 games against Morphy and lost 19 games." LMAO

[@agadmator]

+Derpyderp Strong fellow :)

[@nomibe2911]

Considering how great Morphy was that is a great record.

[@blinkingintensifies8212]

I died for like 5 minutes

[@prasad_g]

@@blinkingintensifies8212 Welcome back

[@jomillen5131]

@Andrew Crosby Ur probably an alt acc of the first guy lol

[@RayVitoles]

he was the person with the best score against Morphy,8-19 ->Close enough

[@u.v.s.5583]

I have a better score against Morphy. We are tied at zero games each!

[@HenryMcCraken4]

@@u.v.s.5583 LOL

[@user-uj2cq6rd8n]

RayVitoles when you look at it.. it's actually pretty impressive😂 Most of Morphy's opponents only got like 2 - 4 wins against him. And here we have Mr. Barnes achieving 8😁

[@oreo9358]

@@u.v.s.5583 You have brighten my day! Thanks

[@MattiMCFC]

Like a 30% full match win rate, that’s great if you’re playing Paul Morphy lol

[@Callipygous1975]

Barnes was among Morphy's first opponents when he arrived in London in late June 1858. According to Frederick Edge who functioned as a kind of a traveling secretary for Morphy, Barnes and Morphy were on an even score after the first 10 or 12 games. Morphy then won the last 8 or 10 in a row. They played 26 games and there were no draws!

[@Justs99171]

This is an important point people don't understand about Morphy. You can't point to any hole in his game. People look at the over all score instead of the reality that Morphy figured out all his opponents and after that, he could win every decisive game against all of them. Anything he didn't understand about chess, he would figure out within a few games.

[@Callipygous1975]

Yes, it is often pointed out that Morphy had poor starts against Harrwitz and Anderssen before going on a winning streak. Mr. Edge reported that Morphy, after his second loss, told him that Harrwitz would not win another game. Against Barnes, there is speculation that Morphy who physically was not a very robust person was suffering somewhat from his first ocean voyage. Then, after a week or so, he began rolling through his opponents in greater numbers.

[@richardsleep2045]

Thanks for the history guys

[@clow0123]

@agadmator could you comment here

[@rolandwongwai2102]

Im gonna piss a lot from drinking too much water

[@joeyp3452]

I've never seen Morphy lose. Good to see he was human too

[@HenryMcCraken4]

I really think morphy was a super gm in certain types of positions, yet he was more IM-Low GM in other types of positions. He was unbeatable in open games, but in these semi closed ones...god could bleed

[@silentoccasion4359]

@Gunasundary Singaravelu what the hell

[@leskobrandon8454]

@John Tran lol I remember that game. Strange opening. Must have thrown Morphy off his edge.

[@AsadAli-jc5tg]

@John Tran Wow! German mastery 🖤 Morphy: Hey! I'm the great Chessmaster from America, I defeated Henry Bird, I defeated this guy, I defeated that guy. Adolf Anderssen: I'm the German master Adolf of the Immortal Game. Hold my beer, I'll show you who the real master is. ~Morphy resigned

[@herbertfeuerstein7244]

well, it was a misprint in the names. morphy lost agsinst mr. burns because he was mr. burns lawyer.

[@mikechambers9129]

More Barnes Trivia (courtesy Wikipedia): “A variation of the Ruy Lopez opening called the Barnes Defence was named after him: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 (this is also sometimes known as the Smyslov Defence). A much more dubious variation named for him is Barnes Defence, 1.e4 f6 which he played against Anderssen and Morphy, beating the latter. Barnes Opening, 1.f3, also bears his name. Opening with the f-pawn served his preference to sidestep existing opening knowledge.”

[@sozibrahman8504]

Oh I see. I actually searching for a good game with Duras gambit named after Oldrich Duras. Do you know any?....... And I also hope agadmator will cover a game of Oldrich Duras. His "duras hell battery" game vs Rudolf Spielmann is certainly worth covering.

[@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

[@geomodelrailroader]

but he is no match against Mr. Barnes he lost to him in Game 2 when Barnes fools mated him.

[@pedroroque829]

Mr. Barnes didn't release his true potential as well. He did other things other than chess.

[@silentoccasion4359]

@@geomodelrailroader Morphy still figured Barnes out then proceeded to win 8 matches in a row against him.

[@glummy909]

It's endearing the respect you have for these players when you call them as Mr. ♥

[@lunakid12]

I think it's mostly for some stylistic joy. He definitely respects them regardless, anyway. But he calls even unknown, noname players "Mr." (as e.g. "Mr. Hoody Guy", which is clearly for the fun of it).

[@musicman6572]

I love the quotes u put above the board. Keep up the great content✌️👍

[@agadmator]

+Music man Thanks Music Man :) Will do :)

[@sinafatemi4005]

I like it how you say Mr Barnes each time. It's like the Matrix ''Mr Anderson''

[@leadnitrate2194]

@PrinzVonLangdelberg just to nitpick here, he was Anderssen, not Anderson. But point well taken.

[@scarletevans4474]

4:50 - "bringing the king into the game as, you know, king is a very important piece in the endgame" Just like in bongcloud ;-)

[@YTPytkaTiMai4ina]

Im back from 2020 to tell 2017 Agadmator ! You have a lovely channel ! Good Job making chess popular in the minds of the young ones !

[@vikramsrinivasan8176]

6:46 "and in this position Paul Morphy resigned" you don't hear this often!

[@davidwestwood6850]

Very interesting game on historical, strategic and tactical grounds. I appreciate your analysis and commentary.

[@michaeltellurian825]

Keep in mind that this game was played well before modern chess theory and yet Morphy and Barnes intuitively played modern chess, at least for the most part. Remember, it wasn't until Steinitz codified modern theory and Lasker's further development of modern ideas that made this video's analysis possible. Great job and great video!

[@AsadAli-jc5tg]

What do ya mean????? You just blew my head off! 🤯 Please explain.

[@alizster3186]

I saw the trap coming, i let him have it.

[@kevezodos8836]

made my day lol

[@LazarosGaming]

I was waiting days to see you commentary this game ! thank you, keep up the great, amazing, awseome work

[@MrSabachtani]

So... wait.... The BEST player against Morphy STILL won "only" eight games and lost 19?

[@harshpatwardhan7624]

Good one. I hav seen many games played by Morphy. This is second game where he has been defeated without any odds. Thanks Agadmator.

[@MrCupidd]

Morphy was about a century ahead of his opposition in open games but he was not so crushing in semi open or closed games. He was still better of course. No one wins them all!

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

Haha, I love seeing Morphy *crushed* Morphy was a very over rated player. More Morphy losses please!

[@nakulbam5067]

SteamLocoScrapper shut up you don't know anything about Morphy just shut up

[@EATOPY]

@@PreservationEnthusiast what????????????? hahahaha morphy was the best !!!!!!!

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

@@EATOPY Morphy was shite. He would be crushed by Carlsen.

[@wasd____]

@@PreservationEnthusiast Gee, crushed by a grandmaster with 160+ years of more developed theory to work with. What a fair comparison.

[@PursuitofKnowledge178]

If I'm not mistaken a fair bit of the games Morphy played with Barnes were shortly after his arrival from America and it was said Morphy was still recovering from sea sickness. But I could be wrong

[@peropetrovic7460]

Try a drinking game :every time he says mr. Barnes, have a drink! 😀

[@agadmator]

+pero petrović It's so people would remember it + I really enjoy saying Mr. Barnes 😂

[@peropetrovic7460]

Gerrit Kooistra luckily its Friday. Wr have a saying in Croatia: Petak, dan za metak!. It means literally, Friday, a day for bullet! (and not the chess one) 😁

[@colemanadamson5943]

I like very much the respect agadmator shows in addressing the player each time as "Mr. Barnes".....very classy.

[@andrew_owens7680]

It's an aspect of this channel that makes it different and more enjoyable. Keep up the good work agadmator.

[@Dark_Voice]

Reminded me of Agent Smith. "Mr. Anderson"

[@galefray]

You show the most amazing games. Excellent vid as always

[@richarddeese1991]

Thanks! This is the only game I've ever seen where the esteemed Mr. Morphy actually loses! I think it's important to show where even the best players lose games through mistakes. That can be a powerful learning experience! :) Rikki Tikki.

[@futnikworldwide2565]

I love your dogs sounds, *tap tap tap tap* :D

[@agadmator]

+Futnik Worldwide :D

[@michaelmendillo4614]

Back too watch again ,,,, What a great game ! I would love to see the other games Mr. Barnes played against the Great Paul Morphy if you can find them !!! You rock Mr. Barnes ! And you too Agamator !!! TY 😁 🖒

[@jeffferschke2846]

Excellent, this "game" never ceases to amaze and entertain. Good presentation!

[@dezraq1984]

Every game you post is a lesson to me, thank you.

[@magnus8014]

man last 1 month I put agadmator channel seach it did not show anything but now wow gr8 job Antonio

[@dpraveen1729]

By watching your videos that I came to know that there so many legends in chess leaving sir mikhal tal , sir Garry Kasparov ,sir Bobby Fischer really your doing great job I wish you go ahead like this whenever I open u tube the first thing I do is there any new videos uploaded slowly it became my daily routine .. keep on making such videos sir

[@longball756]

That was a really interesting game.. I would have never understood why morphy played KnightH3.. but your explanation makes sense

[@sahas01]

0:04- me to agadmator : who is this guy😂

[@avramrotar6716]

Who is here from the new video?

[@brendanward2991]

Me. Hard to believe that less than three years ago the top donation to Agadmator's channel was $40.

[@elaadt]

I don't know how I missed the new video of this game, but as soon as youtube suggested this game and I saw it was aired 3 years ago, I immediately had to watch. What a great game! The Barnes head motif hasn't been invented when the video was made and the T shirt wasn't in the plans yet, but the respect Antonio has for Mr. Barnes was already there.

[@licoricesaffron]

me too. our host is becoming more talkative more colorful and more expressive. what a difference in a few years. well done, as always.

[@Rabai66]

Can we get more paul morphy videos, preferably some of the most intense games versing best of that era. Thanks :)

[@besmart1360]

A very amazing game and video. Nice end words. One of best phrase in chess. A very good video from agadmator in another time :)

[@steampunkastronaut7081]

"There are those moves with which White really tries to shoot himself in the foot, like 1. f3 or 1. g4. Out of loyalty to those unfortunates who have occasionally indulged in these strange moves in their youth, I shall not even give you the names of these 'openings'." -Some quote I found in Wikipedia, regarding (Mr.) Barnes Opening.

[@user-fr3xl]

"Morphy resigns" this hurts😭

[@ddawson100]

Who else is here after watching the newer (July 2020) analysis?

[@Taha-ik1pg]

N00b question - at 2:20 - (dark) bishop sacrifice of bishop g5 seems tempting, - is it worth doing? - wondering if the declined line is viable for white (seems 'maybe' - you can keep the initiative if it's declined but I dunno).

[@cameronscottmorgan]

watching this again in 2020!

[@gigas81]

Morphy at 1:53 "I $(%&@ up! This dude is for real" Barnes: "Oh yeah Morphy! You're taking this L today son!"

[@alancoe1002]

Because of this game, Barnes is my favorite Morphy opponent, and I love Morphy's games.

[@TimeLordDontBlink]

I have traumas of barnes on 4... now it rotated to wild and you post and I twitch everytime you say Barnes

[@ericshoemaker9140]

Good analysis and advice at the end.

[@joseluna1738]

You made me start studying chess and sitting infront of a voard for hours instead of just dicking around. Thank you keep up the great work

[@postmasterpez]

Fantastic positional understanding, didn´t know that existed before Steinitz.

[@anirudhsharma9101]

I love watching your videos 👌👌 good analysis

[@Narrowcros]

Very good endgame play for the time

[@psiddarth3581]

Excellent analysis

[@syyhkyrotta]

Liking your style to make videos and also content is great! Subbed :)

[@agadmator]

+syyhkyrotta Thank you :) Glad you enjoy the content :)

[@asdfgadsg281]

At 2:45, why doesn’t black justpush g5 followed by g4 to capture a piece? Can’t figure it out

[@jestice75]

Queen won't move, probably just capture G5 with one of the knights, and again with the other knight once the first knight is captured. This would leave his king pretty naked. Knight is generally worth 3 pawns, so Morphy would have only gotten 2, but they were important pawns to shield the king. I wouldn't make that trade.

[@jestice75]

Or maybe you'd have to recapture the second pawn with the queen and trade queens to keep from having the bishop from pinning & winning the knight.

[@asdfgadsg281]

@@jestice75 THanks, I missed Nxg5 for some reason

[@Ak-eu7nx]

I think Morphy messed this game he played this game so passively queen was not good and even the pawns anyway thanx for introducing the unsung heroes

[@andrew_owens7680]

Great game. It's so easy for use to real off theory after Nimzovitch and others put it into words, but to put ourselves in Barnes shoes to understand all this without books or examples is quite a feat. Even with books, I couldn't compare what I was about to accomplish to what any youngster armed with youtube and videos like this could do.

[@cd1168]

Love that aggressive king side pawns

[@kevinbyrne4538]

Morphy often gave opponents knight or rook odds, but in this game ...

[@medexamtoolscom]

Ok, at 2:43, where he moves his knight back to F3. Why isn't black's next move to move the g6 pawn forward 1 to attack the queen, then he has to move the queen away, and then moves that pawn 1 forward to attack both knights at the same time? Why not that? Granted if instead of moving the queen out of the way, white just outright takes the pawn with a knight, he'll get 2 pawns for his knight, it still looks like that would be pretty good for black.

[@Valbz0r]

g5 Nxg5 (either of them) hxg5 Nxg5 and white has two pawns for the knight and a strong attack on the king, you can check individual variations with an engine since they excel at tactical positions. Stockfish gives White a small advantage and either way it's a dangerous position, pretty uncomfortable to play for a human so Barnes chose a slightly better endgame instead

[@richardsleep2045]

Brilliant agadmator. I looked up Barnes on Wiki thought his pic looked a tad overweight. Then I read "Thomas Wilson Barnes (1825-1874) was an English chess master, one of the leading British masters of his time. He went on a diet and lost 130 pounds in 10 months, which resulted in his death." Poor sod!

[@lavaforevah]

Who is Barnes you say?He is the guy who made a variation that literally helps the opponent to checkmate in one move.

[@marcd73]

Where is the pic of Morphy and Hoodie Guy and where is A's hoodie???

[@dhanarputra555]

The question is Why is Mr. Barnes...

[@grihanm]

Hello from 2019 everyone. This channel made a huge progress indeed!

[@soydexque]

i am from 2020

[@harleykf1]

I think the problem move was c4, as d4 immediately becomes a target for the queen and bishop after that move.

[@seanhelsinski7043]

In 6:24 white should've played knight to D2 as it will check black and get the bishop so he will be up a piece. It would've been a smart move for white.

[@hikarunakamura5685]

🐐 agadmator

[@sokar9438]

Great channel m8

[@pozzowon]

Anyone else here to see the new old style of Agadmator?

[@Lens98052]

When I was 12 I was playing in the Hastings chess tournament, and someone (not my game) with the black pieces got their files wrong and played a rather careless French defense. The game started 1. e4 f6 2. Nf3 e5 at which point in the post mortem I said that I thought a good move for white was Nxe5 and I was very surprised when all the strong players instantly disagreed with me. This was before the Fischer game in this line where Fischer went astray and lost.

[@anp1609]

On 1:20 when you were talking that you didn't understand why Morphy played this strange move,Imalmost guessed that he played Nh3!

[@MoonBurn13]

When White plays 1. PKB3, it’s called Barnes’ Opening. Clever player!

[@giriiyer3968]

There is another Frederick deacon who played three won one lost one and drew one and de reviere I believe one all with a draw I'm not sure about the details though you will have to check it out

[@caseyvandervelde7843]

And this is were the legend starts

[@Alan-megan]

This is the 2nd game I watched Barnes beat Morphy. There is a pattern here with Barnes method of play. There is always a nemesis for every champion. Mr Barnes was Paul's

[@giannipaladini2929]

Pawn f6 to e4 is given as Fisher's invention in a phantom friendly match against Short.

[@markhughes7927]

Great game!

[@MasterhpIke]

Can you elaborate why he would play Re7? 3:33

[@vinith8669]

I think he wanted to say Re8 checking the king and getting the bishop

[@Gaby-ud5ux]

At 1:15, the chess dog left and came back on the sofa at 7:01 when the game ended. Did he actually watch his master's analysis?

[@howardsmith9342]

He's probably seen it before...

[@rvt911]

At the Sinquefield yesterday Anand played a marvelous game against Fabiano Caruana, you might want to review it. From Bruce Martin.

[@duryodhan903]

Hello everyone! I come here from future to re-watch same game 🤣🤣🤣

[@chriszablocki2460]

Beating Morphy with f3 or f6 is enough to hang your hat on. Now, winning 8 and losing 19 isn't much, but if I'm not mistaken, nobody else ever beat Morphy 8 times. Maybe 1. f3 really is the legendary attack.

[@mirokajevskivelevski8895]

Why didn't play n e6?

[@parthasarathibhattacharyya7166]

" Who is Mr Banes?" could be the title of a good spy thriller

[@giriiyer3968]

Well Morphy played Dutch against harwitz and won Dutch I believe was a novelty please correct me if I'm wrong

[@alisaad679]

What program do you use

[@network_noob]

I think he's on chess.com.

[@agadmator]

+Amirmohammad Divani That is correct :)

[@LJLMETAL]

Very interesting

[@sampapadopoulos4964]

Winning !

[@gregoryzala136]

A dubious move

[@truthandlove0]

Medo at 7:00 "What'd I miss?"

[@michaelmendillo4614]

Bravo!!!! Mr Barnes !!! 😁🖒

[@jacc88888]

Calling him Mr Barnes rather than just ‘Barnes’ sounds very polite and British.

[@Headhunter_212]

Looks like Jim Broadbent as W.S. Gilbert in Topsy-Turvy...

[@alintdg9896]

first ! that s a interesting game!

[@xxrhinosquritxxplz6320]

You haven't watched the full video... So no

[@alintdg9896]

Sonny Maki 😂😂 chill man!

[@xxrhinosquritxxplz6320]

Alin Tdg Chill u say? How bout this u "chill" as u try your best to become first.

[@PlayerMathinson]

My balls are also chilled .Anyone in this section wanna suck'em????

[@trevor7097]

Is Mr. Barnes @Nick Offerman?

[@EliasH-video]

So this is where the great Mr. Barnes saga began

[@wot_hog]

Hats off to THOMAS WILSON BARNES. I bought a Barnes mug!

[@za3karia1999]

Waiting for him to blender, he did at 06:24 (he didnt take the with knight to d2 ! ) And he've lost !

[@pelimies1818]

One step ahead. =Win

[@turkiyett0928]

3:17 bug

[@Dan1elAndrade]

Simply put, against tactical players play positionally.

[@pastorofmuppets4552]

Daniel Andrade, and vice versa.

[@abdulhannanaslam8568]

your dog is cute!

[@chessandmathguy]

6:59🐕🐕🐕