Friday, July 25, 2008
Daily Tactic July 25, 2008
Morphy - Thompson, New York, 1859.
Morphy/Morphy-Thompson-1859.pgn
How good a chessplayer was Paul Morphy? Let’s look at a match he played against James Thompson, a man thought to be one of the top dozen American players. Giving him the outrageous odds of a Knight, Morphy beat him 5-2! After looking over Morphy’s games, Fischer said that, given time to study modern theory and ideas, Morphy would beat any modern player (except Fischer, of course!).
Morphy/Morphy-Thompson-1859.pgn
Labels: chessflash, daily tactic, deflection, double attack, Morphy, pinning
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