Smother of Invention: Paul Morphy vs Schrufer

Smother of Invention: Paul Morphy vs Schrufer
Two Knights Defense: Paul Morphy vs Schrufer [C56]
Paris Paris, 31.03.1859
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.0--0 Nxe4 6.Re1 d5 7.Bxd5 Qxd5 8.Nc3 Qh5 9.Nxe4 Be6 [9...Be7 10.Bg5 Be6 11.Bxe7 Nxe7 12.Nxd4±] 10.Neg5 Bb4 [¹10...0--0--0] 11.Rxe6+ fxe6 12.Nxe6 Qf7 13.Nfg5 Qe7 14.Qe2 Bd6 15.Nxg7+ Kd7 16.Qg4+ Kd8 17.Nf7+ Qxf7 18.Bg5+ Be7 19.Ne6+ Kc8 20.Nc5+ Kb8 21.Nd7+ Kc8 22.Nb6+ Kb8 23.Qc8+ Rxc8 24.Nd7# 1--0
~-~~-~~~-~~-~
Please watch: "The Best Game Played On Lichess | Lichess Game of the Month: December 2023"
• The Best Game Played O...
~-~~-~~~-~~-~

[@deersdance]

And Paul Morphy finishes the game by delivering checkmate with a single minor piece. Absolutely amazing. All of his games were pure art. He was completely ahead of his time. Thanks for your commentary.

[@CaridorcTergilti]

For those who just arrived to planet Earth Paris is ... Not only great chess analyzing skills but also good humor, good videos Mato :)

[@nunu5245]

Is he even human,it's not like he studied how a lot of players do now. This was pure calculation and chess instinct. He really had a feel for the game. I like this style of chess much better. Simply Amazing

[@raydawgrules]

+Jordan Clark ..that was bananas!!!!! There is a book titled Paul Morphy's best 300 games. You can replay all those games on a board. It is under the old coordinates, but you can learn the coordinates pretty quick. He was just awesome!!!

[@gregorythomas4366]

Amazing..effortless

[@giriiyer3968]

My sincere request to you would be to just go thru three of his games (of course my opinion alone) one against baucher where he lost/or allowed it to be taken (take your pick) one blindfold simul against Freeman and one against Anderssen (reverse baucher game) where he took his queen. If you do watch them please do tell me what you think about these three games.thks

[@youngpatrick29]

if tal and morphy played it'd be a new world war

[@vinayakhotkar4593]

they'd both sac everything

[@pneumatic00]

There's no studying chess without studying the games of Paul Morphy. 100 years before Mikhail Tal.

[@WAPBodie]

Tal was probably Morphy´s next life :-)

[@kevinbyrne4538]

This game makes me suspect that Mikhail Tal entered a time machine and visited the 19th century under the name "Paul Morphy".

[@jamesarthur4660]

Kevin Byrne is morphy always sacrifice like tal

[@cardogkitchen4106]

Smothered check? Man that was brutal...

[@jdmikeg4]

cardog kitchen ya. CRUSHED by his own ROOKS.

[@raydawgrules]

+cardog kitchen ... I agree, that was unbelievable!

[@Stolphos]

cardog kitchen smothered mates are the evilest mates

[@daniellawag6986]

Black should have resigned when he saw that Morphy is sitting at the other chair ;)

[@muhajirbetaservis5724]

Exactly LOL

[@jalaluthin2865]

Definitely true

[@marksmith464]

Just when you think that chess is so calculated to the Nth move and utterly stagnant you come back to this and find true genius. The world is a much brighter place with Paul Morphys in it.

[@raydawgrules]

There are Chess grand masters, and then there is Paul Morphy! Big difference. Nothing, or no one compares to this man's brilliant execution of moves. WOW!

[@michaelmendillo4614]

Every Morphy game is a work of art !!!! God I love his playing,, never ever knowing what his next move may be ! Just Awesome !!!! 😁🍺♔♕

[@billakoushik4018]

Mato..sir thanks a lot for sharing all these spectacular games with us. Thank you mato.. We love you sir

[@pvsrinivas100]

Smothered check by sacrificing queen , savage !!!!!!!

[@paraiso1972]

How can this even have 8 dislikes? Most be the 8 other chess tutors online ;-) Great video Mato!

[@MatoJelic]

Must be

[@1953globetrotter]

they are probably not good players and do not understand chess...Mato is the best tutor I have seen online...

[@MatoJelic]

Thank you. May God bless you with many grandchildren

[@1953globetrotter]

thank you...so far I have 4 grandchildren...may you be blessed with many many grandchildren as well...

[@blahplayhard4092]

Schrufer had 8 descendants alive as of May 22, 2012.

[@TexasSizzle]

I know about smotherd mates but they are so rare that I have trouble spotting them! Great game, Morphy was and will always be the Bobby Jones of Chess to me! Thanks Mato!!

[@MatoJelic]

Thank you for your comment

[@benpork8533]

Compare to this, my games are crap.

[@WAPBodie]

You are not only one, mate :-)

[@howdaay]

Thank you for being concise and keeping it down to 5 mins. Too many 20-45 min vids of someone droning on about how poorly they felt the opponent played or end up demonstrating 3-5 variations that were potentially "better" moves to make.

[@korbinianmuch1503]

"Hi, this is Mato and in this video I will show you..." :-)

[@YashvirD]

i love watching Morphy's games! Such brilliance

[@BarbaroAcosta]

this was a beautiful game indeed. thanks for bringing us such masterpiece from morphy. morphy and capablanca are my favorite players.

[@tommonk7651]

I love seeing Morphy's games. His ability to calculate was amazing. Wouldn't a great tournament be Morphy, Tal, Keres, Alekhine, Nezhmetinov, Fischer, Kasparov...?

[@xxAutoFlowxx]

Throw in Marshall since you're naming attacking players..He was all or nothing

[@tommonk7651]

Good suggestion. I'm not as familiar with Frank Marshall as I am the others. Many in the romantic era were attackers or gambiteers.

[@BongelaMnguni]

Marshall blundered like a 1300 player , not sure he would win (or even draw) a game against the above mentioned monsters

[@mikeb8674]

For an eighth, how about Eugene Znosko-Borovsky?

[@vitakyo982]

& Sultan Khan ...

[@dragster100]

Average minds try to keep up with the number of minor pieces with their opponent; Genius mind doesn't give a f*ck about how many minor pieces or even queen you have, he checkmates you with one piece anyway. Amazing, simply brilliant!

[@lethimcook1440]

this game is too good! ive been replaying it 5 times

[@yggdrasil9039]

at 4:45 I thought it was going to be a discovered check Ne5+ taking the Queen next move, but no, Morphy had other things on his mind...

[@virgo8259]

I had it in mind to captured blacks queen, but Morphy was not human to mate with the queen...😅

[@virgo8259]

I had it in mind to capture the blacks queen, but Morphy was not interested to be with the queen all night long, lol!

[@MatoJelic]

Thank you

[@MatoJelic]

Thank you

[@southernsales7777777]

Morphy is iconic

[@bakersaba6968]

wow .. this is maybe the best move I ever watched in this channel

[@mopbrothers]

Say what you will about Fischer and Kasparov. Morphy's games were more beautiful and fun. He's my favorite chess player of all time. No computers, no books, no bullshit. Just him and his brains to work with. No Morphy game ever bores me.

[@Vomaxx1]

Absolutely relentless! Mr. Schrufer must have felt helpless before this assault. A brilliant game!

[@Guesch00]

Paul Morphy is my absolute favorite player, the first American genius preformed analysis ahead of his century. RIP in St. Louis Cemetery #1

[@williamessex3518]

If you like Morphy (and who doesn't), you should check out gems by Zukertort. Zukertort was brilliant. If you get (or already have) " The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess," by Irving Chernev, you'll get 6 games by Zukertort, 23 by Morphy, etc. and all games under 20 moves. A must have book for people who enjoy the poetry of chess. It is sheer brilliance!

[@MarcoMate87]

Hi Mato. At 4:32 instead of Kc8 Black could play Ke8. In that case what is the plan of White? It seems that there is no more forced mate...

[@kkrr00nnicc420]

He is definitely top 3 of all of time. Bobby Fischer studied most of his games.

[@Guesch00]

I've already commented on this video but after watching it again, it deserves another comment... amazing!

[@v.gopalakrishnan350]

Morphy never hesitated to sacrifice pieces to gain control of open lines to win the game! Genius!

[@trainloverrishi3190]

morphy was an extraordinary genius. thats relentless

[@ronkluck7648]

This variant of a smothered mate is actually well known, would be interesting to know if this was the first time in history this mate was played. Is "smother of invention" a little hint? are there any background information to this game?

[@megahypo8762]

speechless.

[@AnArjArt]

Great.....learn more from this....Thnks

[@cpaniaguam]

The two B's combo: Beauty and Brilliancy.

[@rahulkanchangaikwad]

yes speechless. not in million guesses i could have got it. genius.

[@shadedness]

Mato, thank you, I admire your lectures on chess. And thanks too for telling us that Paris is the capital of France! (Just kidding.)

[@gambu4810]

This is the best chess win I've ever seen both in my life and on KZbin!

[@ignacionieto8080]

Absolutely beautiful....Morphy quit at 22?!

[@RobertLoeder]

Stunning Checkmate, like so many of Morphy's games! Mato is my fav, by far. Others meander when they digress into analyzing alternatives. Mato keeps it efficient and moving forward. Additionally, I love that his accent reminds me of Count Chocula! LOL!!!

[@likeyou3317]

Auch that check mate was painfull but.. also sort of satisfying to watch..

[@WAPBodie]

My oppinion, Morphy didn´t reveal all his possibilities, because his opponents was not strong enough. Morphy was in different level. It ich very bad for Chess history, Morphy didn´t born 100 years later and can´t play with players in top level.

[@TheRohit2343]

i have smothered mate several times its my favorite mating pattern does that mean i am very lucky?? :-)

[@Balldous]

Great video!

[@rainbowburger]

classic smothered mate :) I want to travel back in time and re live the romanticism in chess Great vid Mato

[@dragster100]

When Morphy started sacrificing more and more minor pieces to you, you know things aren't going too well for yourself.

[@boodabill]

All hail Paul Morphy, the King of the continuous forced check.

[@raseenadventure92]

Brutal and cunning check mate.

[@pkwow545]

nice! nice! nice! what a game!! nice game very nice from morphy and from our outstanding narrator mato :::)))))

[@jitendrarankhambe2236]

Very excellent game against two knight defence. He is always winning against two knight defence. Playing very accurate!

[@riadassi7235]

and where is france? :) :)

[@possumverde]

Somewhere in not America...

[@mikekeenan8450]

This is all wrong. Paris is in Ontario.

[@joebrett3614]

No, it's in Texas.

[@LeftLib]

The smothered mate could have been played earlier I think, why didn't he?

[@LeftLib]

+number2ricky You are right. It has to be the castle that takes the Queen, not the King.

[@MatoJelic]

On some days (yesterday) they have a break. Match continues today.

[@junaid12345678901234]

parees, cool video mato, I love your accent :)

[@mysticookiebear]

Coming in like a savage at the end, WOAH!

[@MatoJelic]

I have but I am not using it much. I even forgot my pasward.

[@Ronbo710]

Playing tactics against Morphy is like putting out a fire with gasoline .

[@Nallanyesmar]

Wow! What a fantastic game! Bobby Fischer move over. Well, this game is a keeper. It actually brought tears to my eyes!

[@raydawgrules]

lol, funny. This was incredible!

[@raydawgrules]

+Nallanyesmar ...LOL

[@kitmontes7743]

Mato is the best on showing how to play chess... thanks for your amazing analysis... kudos...

[@gcallananpainting]

This game makes me love chess again.

[@abdullahalrafi7007]

To me",Morphy is the best .............."

[@OneEyedJack1970]

I've watched a few Morphy games now, and it seems he was a master at boxing people in.

[@MrAdamkimbo]

I think this is one of my favourite games. I love smothered mates for some reason.

[@soltys_pl]

Excellent game. Thanks for sharing. ㄱㄱ

[@bradringhausen8671]

Is there a book of just Morphy's games? I visited his grave in New Orleans. The tour guide didn't have much to say about Morphy.

[@MatoJelic]

The tour guide was Schrufer's grandson

[@cebryry]

Nobody in this generation can play so close or same to his creativity. A truly deep understanding and calculation. He is almost like a computer engine

[@yoursleepparalysisdemon1828]

the point was that he was the opposite of a computer.

[@nickchambers11]

Beautiful game, wish I could get my pieces to work together like this

[@abelardo2017]

+Latr0 Someday you will.

[@MEME-qe4ze]

+Latr0 me too.

[@jimmy.christian]

The name of the game should be named *The Fall of Secret Service*

[@FYGOKENTROSS]

I just found Morphy in an article about old chess champs... I instantly clicked KZbin, confident about a vid. from Mato. And, here I am! (Mato = Guarantee)

[@loryg1980]

he was simply a great genius!!

[@SambreOfMemories]

Truly a magnificient game... and furthermore one of the most beautiful by far for me. Morphy's contrivances and ingenuity makes me speechless. Thank you so much Mato for sharing them, such as Mikhaïl Tal's which I would have probably not known without you.

[@BoyWonderbk]

i saw the mate in 2, but didnt see the previous moves. that was nice

[@guardrover]

Call this the greatest game ever played!

[@andriusstasiukynas1921]

God bless Morphy's soul! And thanks Mato Jelic for good commenting :)

[@Grayback1973]

Mato,at 4:28 he blocks with bishop.If he blocks with knight that changes everything about the attack,no?

[@jorgepinonesjauch8023]

Morphy Para mí, sin duda alguna fue el mejor jugador de Ajedrez, se aferraba a su iniciativa y cálculo, sin importar material alguno, un mente Brillante, en estos tiempos hubiera arrasado con todos, el propio bobby Fischer lo dijo, y lo definió como el jugador más preciso

[@MatoJelic]

Can you please explain more?

[@slazenger31]

1. Morphy 2. Fischer 3. Alekhine 4. Tal 5. Kasparov 6. Spassky 7. Botvinnik 8. Lasker 9. Steinitz 10. Capablance

[@shielahaberecht3417]

Mato... You know I love you, and watch your "online chess lectures" faithfully, and obsessively even. So please take this comment like it's from an adoring fan.. which it is:) You are miking way too close to your mouth and the attenuation is off, pretty drastically. All the lip smacking, saliva sucking, breathing, mouth noises are severely loud and distracting. Drives me Fooking nutso haha. I have to turn it down super low so I get your words without the associated dribble clappers. No offense... Otherwise, I'm happy imagining little Matos running around gaily while we study chest... Er chess. Sorry. Love ya! 😉🤣😉

[@brianvittachi6869]

Sheer brilliance.

[@jeffrey3498]

No wasted moves by Morphy.

[@DavidM-tg1oy]

Schrufer never castled on Q side, but his King ended up on b8, where he was eventually mated The next best thing?

[@marcelbechard7440]

Mato! Thanks for making these games so interesting by understanding the core..

[@MatoJelic]

Hvala Jarane

[@davidorozco1474]

This is the best game Morphy´s game, thanks Mato

[@PepeLePew125]

Played some of games on Chestmasters against Bobby Fischer computer mode...Swear Morphy and Fischer played the same way..

[@edward92111]

This is the beautifull game :)

[@lightningfirst689]

I found the move, but only because I knew it had to be a smothered mate. :(

[@brianvittachi6869]

Wadda game is the perfect description.

[@sukruthhk]

Nice Game .... Thanks for the video :)

[@hqwebsolutions]

Nd7#! Paul Morphy is genius!

[@MatoJelic]

Well done!

[@leandrosouza5515]

Fantástico de outro mundo era um et

[@kevinshih6714]

The Tal & Morphy complex can be best explained with the anime Hikaru no Go. An anime about Go, another very fun board game.

[@warhamster07]

thanks I'm curious about the game of go it is like the chess of east Asians.

[@warhamster07]

thanks I'm curious about the game of go it is like the chess of east Asians.

[@kevinshih6714]

from what i know, there are several chess like board games here in east Asia, but go seems to be the most popular. Brackets denote most prominent countries. these include Shogi (japan), go (china, korea, japan), chinese chess (china) etc.