By Valeri Beim
In 1857, a soft-spoken genius from New Orleans burst upon the chess scene. Paul Morphy dazzled the chess international with breathtaking mixtures that appeared to come up from skinny air. In his short chess occupation, he used to be universally famous because the most sensible on the earth. foreign grandmaster Valeri Beim takes a detailed examine the play of the mid-19th century champion, placing his video games less than a latest, 21st-century analytical microscope. the result's a clean and instructive examine the method and strategies of the yankee legend, and their relevance to the trendy method of the royal video game. it's a very fascinating publication and should good switch the reader’s preconceived rules within the similar means. online game annotations are the most part yet there's additionally heritage info on Morphy. -- John Saunders, British Chess journal, October 2005
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1-0 Ex. Selezniev Ex. ~h6! Flohr (1 point) Targeting the weakness on h7; the threat is g6. 1. h5 1-0 Prague 1928 The white pieces are not well posted. Black exploits the opportunity for a rapid attack via the dark squares. 1.. iM! (1 point) Ex. :9:c210ses to 2 ... :9:cl loses 2 ... id2t. :9:e3 is followed by 2 ... :9:xf4! id6t-+. ib8 hh4? Black should have preferred S... g6 We6-+. ie5? Wh3! fS gxfS (8 ... Wh4 with counterplay. 7 ... fS xe5 0-1 ~ to Berlin 1928 1. ttJf4! (1 point) Black wants to attack the c3-pawn and brings his knight to e2.
Is refuted by 7 ... Wxf2 Wxh7-+. 7 ... ~d3! Now White brings his reserves into the game. The 35 Positional play 1 threat is l"i:f3 and with the f2-pawn protected, l"i:xh7 would again be an option. hf2t The best try. @xf2 a4 Diagram 4-2 Black is hoping that his passed pawn on the queens ide will give him some counterplay. But even without queens, White can attack the weakened castled position. e2! g4 and then l"i:dh3 or l"i:xh7 with mate to follow. ~xh7 ~xf6t 17 ... exf6 Here the rook will not find it difficult to deal with the black pawns.
H6? ~f8t?? would be wrong, because of 2 ... ± you could always earn 1 consolation point. ~xe7 White 'just' gets a winning ending. But the move in the game is clearly stronger. White can deliver mate in five moves. ~f8t (1 point) 3 ... ~g8t! lLld5# (another 1 point) Ex. ih6! (another 1 point) 2 ... ~d5#. 4 ... ~f8# Moscow 1967 Here too, White has a forced mate. ~d8#. 5 ... ~d7t Ex. ~xg7t! ~xa4? =. 1... ~xg7 2. ~xb8t± 52 Solutions Ex. '1xa7t?! '1xd1 g6~. '1d7t (1 point) also wins, but in a much more complicated way: 1.