WEBVTT 00:01.050 --> 00:02.850 Hi there and thanks. 00:03.210 --> 00:11.250 We're going to see the famous opera again, this was played by Paul Morphy in an opera house in Paris 00:11.490 --> 00:13.780 during Bellini's opera, Norma. 00:14.250 --> 00:16.920 So it's between the American Chessman for Paul Morphy. 00:17.490 --> 00:19.730 And these are highly abbreviated names. 00:19.740 --> 00:30.390 I'm going to tell you the German Nobel Duco and also count is what, a French aristocrat. 00:30.840 --> 00:35.040 So here Paul Morphy is playing EFORE we see five. 00:35.460 --> 00:36.990 So they're both in consultation. 00:37.380 --> 00:41.630 Paul Morphy wants to win as quickly as possible to just watch the opera. 00:42.060 --> 00:43.350 We've seen the Afri. 00:43.650 --> 00:45.960 OK, so not the king's gambit on this occasion. 00:45.960 --> 00:46.550 Desex. 00:46.980 --> 00:48.570 So this is the Philidor defense. 00:49.200 --> 00:50.860 It sometimes can be a bit passive. 00:50.880 --> 00:54.680 This is a very good move against the form we see Bishop G4. 00:55.560 --> 00:58.470 This is not a particularly good idea to spend this night. 00:58.890 --> 01:01.830 We see details and already planning has to concede. 01:01.830 --> 01:05.630 The late Squire Bishop, we see Bishop Zafrin. 01:06.210 --> 01:12.870 So if doesn't concede the line square bishop, then whites of the detainees can take the queen off and 01:12.870 --> 01:16.800 then 1965 winds up on and most sensible at that. 01:17.940 --> 01:24.540 So with the square bishop removed, this line is quite bishop without a counterpoint is far more dangerous. 01:25.260 --> 01:32.420 All the line squares in Black's camp are basically highlighted already with this amazing asset we see. 01:32.700 --> 01:35.600 Thanks Bishop C for pointing out F7 rather brutally. 01:37.470 --> 01:38.600 So what does Black do? 01:38.600 --> 01:45.780 Black plays in light of sex, but now queen bee free renews f7 attack and also Bisa. 01:46.920 --> 01:49.890 We see Queen Asudden and Paul Morphy. 01:49.890 --> 01:53.820 Yeah, he could take this poem but he wants to watch the opera. 01:53.820 --> 01:58.140 He doesn't want a long, drawn out game of the Queen before chac taking the queens off. 01:58.290 --> 02:06.060 He wants the queens kept in the position and there's is also something terrible often that kept the 02:06.060 --> 02:12.540 queens on and tell the parents to try and get the wings off so that that was echoed throughout the history 02:12.540 --> 02:15.390 of attacking players, try and get their queens off. 02:15.510 --> 02:18.180 But anyway, poor Morphy sidesteps for a moment. 02:18.600 --> 02:23.340 Might see free if they try clean beforehand in a special place. 02:23.400 --> 02:27.630 F7 we see sex bishop J5. 02:29.470 --> 02:35.050 And Paul Morphy hasn't committed routinely to Kosslyn Kingside, he's now got two options he can actually 02:35.050 --> 02:43.840 counsel Queen Side or Kingside we see five to try and get that bishop away because otherwise, Plax 02:43.840 --> 02:49.810 in a kind of zugzwang almost because 97 that would block B seven, you know, one could take on B seven. 02:50.800 --> 02:53.200 So this is a very tricky position indeed. 02:53.830 --> 02:58.060 And if G.S. there is the option of taking and then taking here. 02:58.990 --> 03:02.080 So we see this, it's kind of an irritating position. 03:02.080 --> 03:03.280 So they might be five. 03:04.480 --> 03:09.240 But Polymorph, he recognizes, you know, there's a downside, a major downside of Black's position, 03:09.260 --> 03:10.470 the Kingston Center. 03:11.050 --> 03:11.710 So guess what? 03:11.710 --> 03:12.850 He plays in this position. 03:12.850 --> 03:14.650 If I give you five seconds to pause for the. 03:19.130 --> 03:21.440 OK, night, Saxbe five. 03:23.050 --> 03:27.850 OK, thanks, Bishop, tax refund check might be the seventh. 03:27.880 --> 03:33.300 This is an absolute pin and sometimes we just want to celebrate those absolute pins. 03:33.850 --> 03:36.720 We want to intensify the pressure and pull more. 03:36.730 --> 03:42.490 If he does that and cancels at the same time, he calls his queen side the rookies automatically by 03:42.490 --> 03:47.110 default, adding pressure to the seven we see wrote the end. 03:47.590 --> 03:52.810 Now here, Paul Morphy plays an absolutely stunning combination. 03:53.650 --> 03:55.390 Black has a downside. 03:55.390 --> 04:01.870 That Black has a lack of development is that the issue is, well, there's multiple issues. 04:02.560 --> 04:03.700 The king still in the center. 04:03.700 --> 04:06.700 So this is, you know, quite brutal pin and an absolute pin. 04:07.480 --> 04:08.440 This shouldn't be the case. 04:08.440 --> 04:11.110 Usually White's pieces are all mobilized. 04:11.110 --> 04:12.010 They're all out of the box. 04:12.010 --> 04:14.200 They're working together quite well. 04:15.040 --> 04:22.810 And in fact, the pin can be celebrated even in a greater manner here by getting rid of some defensive 04:22.810 --> 04:23.590 capability. 04:24.340 --> 04:27.140 Blackies, in a way, playing two pieces down here. 04:27.140 --> 04:29.620 These these pieces just not actively involved. 04:30.100 --> 04:33.070 And the membership has no counterpart. 04:33.370 --> 04:37.860 So black is fundamentally weak on white squares like these seven here. 04:39.490 --> 04:40.210 So guess what? 04:40.210 --> 04:48.400 Paul Morphy plays in this position, which also helps bring this rock to bear on seven way whilst reducing 04:48.400 --> 04:50.910 Black's defensive capabilities of D seven. 04:51.820 --> 05:00.760 So this is achieving this next wave achieves a great superiority of force on the D7 square, truly celebrating 05:00.760 --> 05:01.240 that bishop. 05:01.240 --> 05:03.100 Well, our counterpart on the line squares. 05:03.670 --> 05:06.940 So here, if I give you five seconds pause video, what would you play with? 05:06.940 --> 05:07.300 White. 05:09.810 --> 05:10.400 OK. 05:12.680 --> 05:19.400 Paul Morphy plays Route 27 now for Nine Takes, we're going to take the queen, so Route 67 is virtually 05:19.400 --> 05:19.910 forced. 05:22.310 --> 05:27.660 So it's the book now which comes on the great Scrooge thing, and this is where it comes into the game. 05:28.190 --> 05:30.890 Meanwhile, these these pieces just can't help. 05:32.570 --> 05:40.400 The situation desperately offers the exchange of queens, but now Paul Morphy finds a very swift, beautiful 05:40.400 --> 05:41.180 combination. 05:44.970 --> 05:49.270 He plays Bishop 67 check of the 1967. 05:49.830 --> 05:53.940 Guess what, there's an absolutely beautiful move played in this position. 05:54.360 --> 05:57.540 If I give you five seconds pause video, can you find that? 06:05.190 --> 06:12.240 OK, shackle checks, check all the killer common squares, that's the golden ingredient even in these 06:12.240 --> 06:17.760 iconic games, you know, prioritizing your forcing moves. 06:20.050 --> 06:27.220 And you come close to find out or find that Quamby achak, it creates a kind of weakness of the last 06:27.220 --> 06:33.370 move that liberates this rook is right now the view on day eight that it didn't have before. 06:33.610 --> 06:35.280 So Rhodia is actually checkmate. 06:35.290 --> 06:43.420 Now kill a common square emerged and Polwarth, it could get on and watch the opera. 06:44.760 --> 06:52.410 After swiftly crushing his opponents, so we learn a lot of things from Paul Morphy games in general, 06:54.120 --> 07:02.820 rapid developments, King's safety, the powerful thing moves the importance of exploiting spectator 07:02.820 --> 07:04.920 pieces before the opponent unravels. 07:07.320 --> 07:13.890 Also, the more subtle things which are highlighted to me through even like the more the new network 07:13.890 --> 07:19.980 games, when bishop the bishop was given up, you know, this bishop without a counterpart, if you 07:19.980 --> 07:23.160 have a bishop accountable, that could be a huge advantage. 07:24.180 --> 07:32.010 All the celebrations happening, if you look at the frats, run light squares in this game, f7 be 77 07:32.010 --> 07:33.330 later if you look. 07:34.200 --> 07:37.950 And that's not emphasized by many commentators. 07:37.950 --> 07:41.160 But for me, you know, light square better than light squares. 07:42.840 --> 07:43.260 Yeah. 07:44.040 --> 07:52.050 They're being celebrated as well as that pen that's been hugely said right now, spectator pieces and 07:52.050 --> 07:52.940 the crushing finish. 07:54.510 --> 08:01.770 So there are many games of pool Morphy which will emphasize the importance of rapid developments, central 08:01.770 --> 08:05.670 control, King's safety and all sorts of other major concepts. 08:06.720 --> 08:07.860 You can for free. 08:07.860 --> 08:08.940 You can check out chess games. 08:08.940 --> 08:11.010 Come, for example, go to the Paul Morphy page. 08:11.340 --> 08:14.610 Just Google, you know, Paul Morphy chess games. 08:15.390 --> 08:23.910 Come and just have a look at his key, you know, games and study them, because actually you might 08:23.910 --> 08:24.660 think, hold on. 08:24.660 --> 08:25.580 Keynes question, why? 08:25.590 --> 08:28.980 Why not study the modern grandmasters instead? 08:30.450 --> 08:37.920 Well, sometimes you want a simplified kind of model to work with experiment without all the complexity 08:38.460 --> 08:44.760 of layers of complexity which might be relevant and in the game to the old Masters because because of 08:44.760 --> 08:46.050 the technology at the time. 08:46.470 --> 08:52.150 And there wasn't chess computers and there was less opening theory, you haven't got the layers of complexity 08:52.150 --> 08:54.480 of very heavily analyzed opening theory. 08:54.480 --> 09:01.770 It's more more about their own minds and creativity and ingenuity, craftsmanship. 09:03.610 --> 09:04.480 Resourcefulness. 09:05.830 --> 09:11.200 Stripped bare without all this having to, you know, check things with advanced computers. 09:13.070 --> 09:21.130 So he can play like this just an improvised way and there's tons of games, he's just crushed opponents, 09:21.140 --> 09:23.190 you know, tactically they're worth checking out. 09:24.680 --> 09:28.610 They're much simpler to understand basically the more than Grandmont the games. 09:31.130 --> 09:37.730 These games, historical games, capture culture and history at a time, you know, less communication 09:37.730 --> 09:40.520 resources, less ascensions, less technology generally. 09:41.780 --> 09:45.960 OK, so we have these more simple games to understand, OK? 09:46.580 --> 09:47.210 And so much.