Big big thanks to Bill Wei for sponsoring this lecture for us plebs with no dollars to spare. Big thanks, the man deserves to get paid and I'm glad he's getting paid. This content is of such quality that it should absolutely continue to be produced if possible. Thank you for making it possible for the rest of us.

@user-ro9md9wp3j

Жыл бұрын

Mainly etc.

@andrewptob

Жыл бұрын

Yay Bill!

@ibazulic

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree!

@Anfield_the_place_to_be

Жыл бұрын

The answer is fries

@Flight368

Жыл бұрын

Gain dollars, but don’t lose Wei

This is going to be good. Ben is a huge Morphy fan.

@andrewptob

Жыл бұрын

No need to bring up Ben’s weight

@kenw2225

Жыл бұрын

Ben looks like my dad as he lost 140 lbs after diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. He looks alot thinner in this video vs Oct or so , the last video I watched

@andrewptob

Жыл бұрын

@@kenw2225 Ben does actually look better. Nice work by your dad! 💪

I love that Finegold is carrying the torch for the aesthetic principle in chess. Chess, like any pursuit, must tickle the artistic sensibility -- not just the competitive.

Even Fischer admitted that Morphy could be the better player and that we just don't know because times were so different. If Morphy would be teleported to the times of Fischer, Karparow/Karpov respectively Carlsen and therefore would have access to the same knowledge of the time he was in, that might have supercharged him. And some words about Morphys aggressive play style: Back then it was all about showmanship, you didn't just wanted to win, you wanted to do so in the most spectacular manner. It was like every game that had spectators was like a streamer today playing "for content" rather than for safe wins. As a fellow streamer once said, Morphy was a surgeon, not a butcher. And yes, because of his superior calculation skills he was able to walk the fine line between going flashy and risking too much. Remember his match against Harrwitz where he lost the first two games? He then famously announced in response to Harrwitz bragging and teasing him that from now on Harrwitz will not win a single game. And that's what happened, even with Harrwitz dictating the schedule, denying Morphy a day off when he was sick but taking himself days off to prepare something new etc. It's like Morphy had a "play for the audience mode" and a "no-BS-mode" and could switch at any time.

@shaktidevii

9 ай бұрын

thats very humble of Bobby 🤍 King Fischer Forever Morphy bows down

@kevinmalone3210

3 ай бұрын

With today's knowledge in chess, Morphy would've been at 2700 or higher after getting him up to speed. When he was playing, I'd estimate his rating at around 2500 at least.

Didn't Bobby Fischer say in an interview that Morphy was the most talented player who ever lived? Clearly a genius

@zachhaywood1564

Жыл бұрын

Yep, Hikaru too.

@mitchelllevine5664

Жыл бұрын

He said Capablanca was the most talented, although Morphy was his favorite

@LuxuryItIs

Жыл бұрын

Most talented 1. Morphy 2. Fischer 3. Capablanca 4. Kasparov 5. Lasher

@mitchelllevine5664

Жыл бұрын

@@LuxuryItIs Not sure who Lasher is, but I’d say Capablanca, then Fischer

@LuxuryItIs

Жыл бұрын

@@mitchelllevine5664 Emanuel lasker. You can definitely make the case that capablanca was more talented

You can't go wrong with Morphy, one of the most interesting chess players of all time!

I've long been an advocate for Morphy being the best player to have ever lived, I am so happy to hear such a well-reputed educator such as yourself say so as well!!

@dodiad

Жыл бұрын

Certainly the most entertaining.

@elg7365

9 ай бұрын

There is no way to compare

@gmatsue84

4 ай бұрын

@@elg7365 Distance between one and his peers is one of the best, among many, ways to compare, and one that makes the most sense.

@elg7365

4 ай бұрын

@@gmatsue84 actually this would be the way only or you have a good amount of data. There is no comparison between that era and this. This is a different game .

@gmatsue84

4 ай бұрын

@@elg7365 The point of using gap is exactly so that you can compare different games

I want to see a movie made of Morphy's life. He deserves to be known by more people.

@mandotherapper2586

7 ай бұрын

Finding Paul Morphy

@mandotherapper2586

7 ай бұрын

Morphys Defense Declined

@insouciantFox

2 ай бұрын

Pride and Sorrow

Oh my god, thank you so much for this lesson! I just had my FIRST EVER SMOTHERED MATE, because I remembered the pattern of this video! That's the coolest thing I've ever done in chess, thank you so much, GM Finegold!

What timing! I was actually binging your previous paul morphy lectures earlier today! And ive been looking into the kings gambit as well, this is great. Btw Ben, my family has noticed me watching your lectures and have nicknamed you "panda".

@RahdoBound

Жыл бұрын

Wow what a perfect nickname

@TylerHumphrey05

Жыл бұрын

Is that similar to googling?

Gonna be awesome. I'll never get tired of Morphy games.

GOoooooooooo Billlllll Wayyyy

Murphy always chose the coolest mate. It was always with great substance and style

I gotta say I am loving these lectures on the old masters! I am trying to use the King's Gambit as my main opening currently.

NEW PAUL MORPHY LECTURE BY BEN?!? What a day to be alive I’m hype

Your explanation of how u play chess is exactly how i play any game. Solid play with small advantages that equals a win

Thank you to sponsor Bill 🥇💰. Thank you GM Finegold another awesome video

I miss your live lectures with the students. Please go back to teaching at clubs. the way your style of comedy bounced off the kids was pure gold

Great content as usual. Thanks to Bill Wei for sponsoring it. Looking forward to the next episodes.

Not reupload? Go Ben!!

can't wait for the rest of the series

Thank you Ben and Bill so much

Another fantastic lecture by Ben. Go Ben!

Four-part Morphy lecture, good idea Bill Wei

@ 28:40 you show a smothered mate. I have been very fortunate in my 50 years of playing chess to have actually delivered a smothered mate twice, both in tournament play. So satisfying for this 1800 rated player.

Great lecture series, thanks!

Definitely want more parts to this. Love it.

Great video. You have earned my subscription from this video. Paul Morphy and the Kings Gambit always wins my heart! Thanks for the amazing games!

My Top 5 of "The Greatest Chess Players of All Time": 1. Paul Morphy (because he had a PhD at a time the best players were just in elementary school of chess) 2. Magnus Carslen (because he is the best at a time where all super grandmasters useing AI and super computers solving chess) 3. Garri Kasparov (because he has remained a chess champion for over a decade, at a time when chess was already very advanced) 4. Bobby Fischer (because he beat the nation of chass at that time, UDSSR and of course he was a genius) 5. Emanuel Lasker (because he was the first 18th century chess player that played modern strategic type of chess with a deep understanding of the principles of chess. Also he was the longest period of time chess champion of the world)

Thanks Bill!

Awesome! Looking forward to this lecture series :)

Thank you Bill and Ben.

I love Ben lecturing on Morphy!!

Beautiful games! Thanks Ben!

Modern chess players have computers, books, coaches, and the Internet to develop their skills. Morphy had none of these things. In fact, I read that Morphy's parents didn't let him play chess on any day but Sunday, because chess was a gambler's game. This is why I admire Morphy so much - he was self-taught under difficult circumstances. Can Ben name any other chess masters who were completely self-taught?

@zmo1ndone502

Жыл бұрын

I bet money he could. Dude remembersfamous and non famous games move for move. Gm'shave crazy memory skils

I love this stuff. Thank you for doing this for us.

Thank you sponsor, thank you Ben, go Ben, great stuff like always!

There are many good chess teachers and commentators out there but can you watch them for more than 30 minutes without getting tired? GM Finegold has such high IQ, he can make chess funny, not just slapstick funny, high IQ funny, entertaining and still conveying the ideas and conclusions about the game with razor sharp precision. I can watch him for days. To use GM Finegold's example about imaginary worlds, in a world where everyone has a 95 IQ, he comes in at a solid 300. If I had to choose just one streamer, commentator and a teacher - it would be GM Finegold.

Great Video Ben! :) Thank you for your Input on the Kings Gambit. I am playing the kings gambit from time to time as well.

Thanks Doc finegold

I never understood and appreciated this until Cecil Purdy mentioned this in Action Chess: Development is all about the rooks. Anybody can develop the minor pieces. But to make the right pawn exchanges and bring out the rooks and queen to destroy the opponent's structure, expose the king, then checkmate with remaining pieces... Nobody really did that until Morphy came along. 1. Develop quickly 2. Pawn exchanges that favor open lines for your rooks and not the opponent's. 3. Sacrifice to open lines to the king. 4. Calculate to checkmate. Morphy didn't care about the typical pawn structures that modern GMs study and use daily. He just wanted the pawns out of the way so his pieces were more active. Of course this requires accurate calculation which is why beginners like closed games that slow the pace down and reduce calculation load.

A new video, and it's on Paul Morphy? Oh boy...!!! THANK YOU BILL WEI!

Excellent Morphy to me is immensely fascinating so I'm hyped for this series thx Mr finegold 😊❤

The last game shown here is nice, I love those forcing moves sacing an exchange to set up a brutal pin

I agree with you completely sir. bravo, bravo!!!

GM Ben Finegold is absolutely right about Morphy. Truth matters. So does humour.

It's so great and I'm grateful to you and your sponsor that you publish these fantastic lecture videos! 🙏 That's a big service to the chess world: lecturing about these great players of the past. I love Morphy's games, and am happy to own Maroczy's Morphy biography 🍀♟

Thanks Ben I learned a lot

"morphy was so good that it doesnt even make any sense" idk why but i cant stop laughin, luv your vids!

great lecture 👍! and thanks to the sponsor! the more he pays, the more we learn! :)

Love the lecture and the topic. GO BEN!!! GM Ben Finegold is an excellent teacher of chess. 99999

At 20 mins 0 secs is a position I get often playing the Kings Gambit. Good to see its a good position to have.

Very good presentation. That Kings Gambit is a wild ride 🥳🤪🤣🔥👊🏾

Morphy lectures are the best.

Amazing mr Ben Finegold.

Thank you! 👍

33:05 "And this is called the Falkbeer Countergambit, named after a famous chess player, Mr. Countergambit." God I love this guy.

Thank you...❤❤❤

Thanks!

I love seeing Morphy games

awesome!!!

Putting aside any question of what Morphy's effective FIDE rating would have been, and putting aside his games against amateurs, consider just his games against the world's best, right around or near 1858. The question I have is, how did he become so dominant immediately, without years of practice against strong players? Even Fischer and Carlsen spent quite a few years climbing the ranks against strong opposition before they reached the very top.

@MrDoggyz0r

Жыл бұрын

time machine

@karmaic8282

Жыл бұрын

Morphy was insanely gifted when it comes to memory, giving him a huge advantage thanks to the available writings of the time. He memorised virtually every single piece of Chess Literature partially due to his ability to speak four languages. He could also recite the entire Louisiana legal code from memory. He used his amazing memory to memorize the entirety of existing chess knowledge (far easier at that time), then built on top of that with his natural abilities. He probably also did what young Fischer did and played against himself using openings from these books. "Fluent in French, English, Spanish and German, he read Philidor's L'analyse, the Parisian magazine La Regence, Staunton's Chess Player's Chronicle, and possibly also Anderssen's Schachzeitung (at least, he knew all of Anderssen's published games) . He studied Bilguer's 400-page Handbuch - which consisted partly of opening analyses in tabular form, and also Staunton's Chess Player's Handbook. 'These books,' considers Fischer, 'are better than modern ones; there has been no significant improvement since then in King Pawn openings, and Morphy's natural talents would be more than sufficient for him to vanquish the best twentieth century players.'" -Kasparov

@MrSupernova111

Жыл бұрын

@@karmaic8282 . Thank you for the extracts!

@karmaic8282

Жыл бұрын

@@MrSupernova111 No problem, if you're interested in this check out Kasparov's full series. A gold mine for Chess history facts and games. I'm only half way through the first volume and it's given me a whole new respect for players like Morphy and Steinitz.

@MrSupernova111

Жыл бұрын

@@karmaic8282 Cool! I actually have them in my Amazon wish list and plan to get them soon. Thanks!

Uncle Ben reminding us all to respect the morph.

I love it when I get to play Philidor's legacy in a game, especially against players who've never seen it before, you look like a wizard.

Nice. It's been a while since you made a lecture on Morphy.

If i were to take a test after this lecture I'd ace it no doubt the way it was explained is out of this world ❤🤞💯

“And, they didn’t have a lot of good internet service in the 1850s…” 😂 Love your videos! Love me some Paul Morphy.

Love the Ben Morphy lectures won’t lie. Wish I could afford another 4 part series after this one. Ben’s Man crush is fascinating to watch. Haha j/k it is great content tho.

Love this Ben, great job. Paul Morphy an Enigma. Morphy was so good he lost his mind,yes? Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess

Thumbs up immediately!!! Exclam❗

Morphy was in the same category as Capablanca. He was just naturally gifted, a child prodigy in chess.

Comparing later chess geniuses to Morphy is a bit like comparing later scientific geniuses to Aristotle. Was he eventually surpassed? Yes. Was he ever equalled? No.

@loganmyall660

Жыл бұрын

For my money, if you put Fischer, Kasparov, karpov, Morphy etc and give them whatever tools of whatever era, they'd be competitive with each other. Greatness is greatness y'know?

@lol101lol101lol10199

Жыл бұрын

@@loganmyall660 I could easily see Fischer being Morphy if born 100 years earlier, just as I could see Da Vinci being Aristotle if born 2000 years earlier. But that's a hypothetical. The people who *actually* had the tools of those earlier eras to compete on equal footing with them were at times also brilliant, and might have passed for greatness if not so obviously overshadowed by those two.

@lol101lol101lol10199

Жыл бұрын

​@@canonjean-mignon4985 I said "later scientific geniuses", not later philosophers. When it comes to what he called "natural philosophy", and which others later re-branded as "science" with the addition of more rules, he was early enough to be world-leading in every field and remain a top authority for some of them a thousand years after his death. Philosophy proper would indeed have been an inferior analogy, as it featured two near-equal contemporary-ish rivals. More like Karpov and Kasparov only not so late as them.

@_vzhux5164

11 ай бұрын

​​@@canonjean-mignon4985 they didn't believe that the earth was flat, people in ancient Greece thought that the earth was round and Aristotle created one of the first proof that the earth was round, so it's a myth. however, you're right that Aristotle believed some odd stuff.

@_vzhux5164

11 ай бұрын

@@canonjean-mignon4985 you said that they believed that the earth was flat, which is false. so, yes, it is important, since it is what you initially talked about.

That was fantastic. Well done GM Finegold. Never knew there was a recorded game of Morphy vs Morphy (dad). That was memorizing to watch, though most Morphy games are. Thoroughly enjoyed the vid. Edit - I just realized 1848 ??? Morphy was only 11 yo at the time? Incredible.

Fischer though Morphy was the greatest, thats enough for me. No one knew the game better than Fischer.

27:51 I have only been able to do that pattern a few times, but it is one of my favorite checkmates.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. Morphy was a time traveler.

Found mate in 2! Moving on up!! Road to 800!!!

Great!😃

Thank god for those annotaded Morphy games, who compiled them for posterity. Do the original notations are still archived somewhere ? They could be worth something.

Movin' on up to the King side! I spit my coffee. To a deluxe position on the h-file! I'm movin' on up!

2:32 -- That's a great point -- the disparity between Morphy and the best contemporaries. Good criteria, Ben, I think.

Let's go!!!!

"The Falkbeer countergambit named after famous chess player Mr. Countergambit" 🤣🤣🤣

The King's Gambit has been analyzed to the end, meaning the full tree from the gambit-accepted position is known with exact evaluation, win/lose draw. This was a very long computer search. The results are surprising, and I don't think a lecture on the gambit can be complete without a discussion of the known perfect play for the line.

I made a little Alonzo Mourning joke in my mind just before Bensaid his. Finally, I am on the same page as a GM 😆

Great lecture love Morphy, Go Ben!

14:55 wow at that combo!

Hopefully you will cover a few of his positional games. A lot of his fans don't know that his positional play was quite skilled when required.

@MrSupernova111

Жыл бұрын

Good to see you still kicking! Cheers!

@MrSupernova111

Жыл бұрын

Ben covered one of Morphy's positional games in a previous lecture.

This Morphy guys seems pretty good

Paul 'Alpha 2 Zero' Morphy. They say you will never amount to anything if you spend all your time playing with yourself. Clearly these two are the exception.

just got morphy 25 games to memorize on chessable and this is the third one.... and i so happend to be on the third one. Guess I will play along with the video.

Morphy was the first chess boogeyman. Morphy often play strong players with a piece down. A true monster.😂

Barnes wasn't that bad at defending... Probably why he was the best opponent of Morphy (even though Morphy has a plus score against him as well) The Barnes defense game is nice to see, how Barnes slowly strangled Morphy, move by move, avoiding direct lines.

@Puschit1

Жыл бұрын

Nonetheless Barnes was an overly aggressive player which is why the games of Morphy vs Barnes were such a delight to watch. It was like the both wanted to remind each other every move who the attacker was.

aint easy to measure genius !! genius does not contradict the measuring, a genius makes up a new ruler by definition

I love your chair Ben. Makes you look like a green winged demon chess bat 👍 plus Paul Morphy is the greatest 😮❤

Nice work, go Ben, etc…… Mostly etc.

Mr. Counter-Gambit!!

Morphy + king’s gambit->hell yeah

Go Ben! But stay there

Nf5+; Kg5 Qh5# It has BEN a pleasure to watch this video, like watching FINE GOLD sparkling in the sun!