The Morphy smothered mate game is from a book by P. W. Sergeant published in 1916. Morphy's opponent was not P. W. Sergeant either because it was played before Sergeant was born.
Dude. I watch a lotta chess videos these days to improve my game but you're by far the biggest help I've found. Other masters review games from decades ago and that's useful but the context you provide along with interesting games, scenarios, rules, advice and puzzles is superior. I recently subscribed, whatever that means, so your videos come up a lot anyway. I've re-watched some, especially with the interesting new traps, and always look forward to the next video. Thank you!
"Moslem chess" probably refers to Shatranj, which was the version of chess played in the Muslim world around the 10th century. It evolved from the Indian Chaturanga and then into the European form we play today. In Shatranj, the rook (rukh) was the most powerful piece. Instead of a queen, there was a fairly weak piece called a counselor (ferz) that could move only one space diagonally. Instead of a bishop, there was an elephant (alfil) that moved exactly two spaces diagonally.
Anderson was a master at understanding the dynamics and initiative of a position. Like a lot of very strong players he intuitively understands the power of each individual piece and how to co ordinate them best to create unrelenting attacks!!! I think studying him as a player could only help you better improve your game.
I recognized the game in the intro just immediately, cuz this position was in my chess club a year ago and I remember how my coach gave me this position, set the clock for 30 minutes and didn't say a single word and just left for lunch. I was calculating for the whole time, half of an hour and didn't solve it. My move was Nc5 and it was wrong, but he said it was ok, not worse than Qg4. With his prompts(2 or 3) I got it and my mind just exploded. Literally no one in the club didn't solve it. My rating on lichess is 1900, average rating of my club I think is 1700. And the irony is that we underestimated Steinitz so much because he was 1st champion and the accuracy of that era was not so cool if you compare it with 20th century. But after that brainbreak we got our words back - Steinitz is the gangster in chess, no doubt. You can't deny
@@mislavivkovic9996 when you choose the game to watch, analyze, learn and memorize, games by Fischer, Kasparov and Carlsen looks more solid because of upgraded and advanced theory. Steinitz didn't play Catalan or anything like that and most of his opponents played unsound moves. I know it's not right, but it was our opinion and the reason why we didn't learn from Steinitz. Now it's different tho
@@VladimirPutin-wt5yh ok but Stainitz had just few books no Stokefish and computers of 10000 usd and still we have Stainitz variation of French of Rui Lopez and many others opening invented by him
1:39 These are pages from A S M Dickins and H Ebert's 100 Classics of the Chessboard, pub. Pergamon Press. This book has some big mistakes. For example it wrongly claims that game 13 is D Janowski - F G [sic] Marshall, Biarritz, 1912, and the text on the facing page gives some biographical info about Janowski. But the game is actually S Levitzky - F J Marshall, 18th DSB-Kongress, Breslau, 1912, the so-called "Gold Coins Game". Edward Winter's Chess Note 585 describes this book as "a book with a large number of factual errors", and pointed out the above specific mistakes.
16:22 The Moslem chess is likely referring to Chaturanga, an early precursor of chess. In this game, kings, rooks, knights, and pawns move in the same way as chess, except that pawns cannot move 2 steps in their first move, and there's no castling. The piece represented by the sideway queen is called Mantri/Senāpati, which is usually called ferz in modern chess variants. It's the precursor of the queen which moves one step diagonally. The piece represented by the inverted bishop is called Gaja, and there're three kinds of moves recorded, possibly in different chess variants, the first move is two-step diagonally, the second move is two steps orthogonally (vertically or horizontally) and the final move is one step diagonally or one step forward.
I believe in "Moslim chess" an upside bishop was an elephant who could move exactly 2 squares diagonally, and a sideways queen was weak variation who could move only one square before being allegedly powered up by influence of Queen Isabella of Castile.
Btw congrats on nearly getting 125 k subs I bet when you had just 25k you never thought you would get 100 k more. Good to see you going from strength to strength you deserve it you have worked hard
Love your content explain one thing to doesn't make sense to me I'm 2110 on lichess but 1300 fide rated it confused. Going to move over the broad tournaments to increase my rating.
Lichess and FIDE elo systems are separated, there are more bad players on lichess so even high elo is pretty low in FIDE (because I don't think a noob would even attempt FIDE tournaments). But 1300 is actually pretty low...
Wonderful games Nelson & thanks for them ! Also ,thank you for switching off Stockfish so we can enjoy human to human " combat " without a machine " spoiling " the beauty of them !
If anderseen attempted the immortal or evergreen games against stockfish or any of the top chess engines, he would be crushed. I had a game where I sacrificed both rooks to force mate with the queen and bishop... and several years ago, sacrificed both exchanges to force mate with a knight and queen.
At 8:20 you ask whether Anderssen calculated it all out. Stockfish shows he had not: If Kieseritzky had played 18...Qb2 instead of 18...Bg1:, he would have a comfortable lead. Because the black bishop would then indirectly cover e7, 19. e5 can be answered with 19...Ne7, giving black the f8 square for his king. White can win back a piece, but when his attack fizzles out, he will still be a rook behind, while the black queen gobbles up white's queenside pawns.
You answered the wrong question, Nelson was asking if Anderssen had seen that position from way earlier in the game and decided it was winning, not if he had calculated every single vatiation possible.
Pleasant picks, though "sadly" I knew four games (almost) by heart, so the puzzle-challenge wasn't there. On a side note, IMHO the 'Evergreen Game' is superior (in terms of quality) to the 'Immortal' one - in other words, I could save the position in the latter-mentioned game (up to a certain point in the game, of course), but would really hesitate attempting to do the same in the prior one. The Morphy game is (as so many other from this lad) just a blast and a brilliant case study of how to properly develop, how to properly attack and how to do it all in grandeur kind-of-style - it's definitely one of my favourite games of chess, right on par with e.g. the more widely known 'Opera Game'. Alas, Morphy is definitely my all-time favourite chess player. The Byrne-Fischer game is a bit of a different story - I saw some recap of this game a few years earlier (by agadmator? ChessNetwork? GM Ben FInegold? I'm unsure..) and just kept on gasping at the grand concept Fischer was able to pull off, seemingly without extra effort - needless to say, I would (and probably could) never-ever find such a continuation, calculating it all indepth included. SO this one's truly a masterpiece from a chess genius. Oh, and I love the messed-up dates as well as the nitpicky comments on that subject - both add extra flavour to an already fun video :-) LbnL I started a similar collection of articles on chess games & events from the past (during my high-school years - a long time ago), which I managed to find only some time ago. So I can relate to that fondness of re-discovering / coming back to these.. As if childhood came back, at least for a few moments. Nice :-)
Yeah I have also seen at least 4 of those games as well, multiple times probably. Shocked Morphys Opera House game wasnt chosen here. And on Fisher's game of the Century. I think it's Stockfish 9 said it was a perfect game by Fischer, with am exception of he played mate in 5 when mate in 4 was possible. Fischer was playing supercomputer moves at 13. If you saw the position at move 18 after the Queen was "trapped" I dont think any human without prompts could find the win, excpet Fischer on that day.
1916 must have been the year the book was written. I was wondering why all the weird comments, then I realized. By the way, "fianchetto" is pronounced "fee-un-KET-toe" not "fee-un-CHET-toe" (22:49)
Oh, here I thought that it's gonna be about famous chess games in history, like the one between Cnut the Great and one of his political enemies named Ulf where Cnut basically requested a takeback, poor Ulf refused, it got nasty with some insults and the next morning Ulf was executed... :D
Haha, in first game Chess com stockfish can't even decide - suggests move for black in the crucial position (eval -1.23), then immediately it's mate in x for white. Lichess better, but only after E5 is actually played.
Well having never heard of this chess variant i do know that *_Moslem_* is how old timey British folks used to spell Muslim so my guess is this is probably a variant from the Middle East or India.
Hey Nelson this is kind of a late comment, but I can't help notice that in the first game you shown I believe the move order is wrong. I believe the bishop takes the rook first, not the queen.
I don't know chess notation that well, but when the two rooks are hanging, the bishop captured the rook first, and then the queen captured the other rook!
There's a question I've been wondering for a long time. If you have two knights that can move onto F4, how to you write that down? Wouldn't both moves be k-f4?
It may be late but it depends on the case. If there are two of the same piece that can move to the same square, you put the file the piece moved from in the move. An example of this is if there is a knight on the b file and the f file, which the move would be notated as Nbd2 or Nfd2. In very rare scenarios, there can be two of the same piece and on the same file which can move to the same spot. For this, you put the rank the piece was on.
The Morphy 1916 game is problematic in that Morphy was already dead for 32 years.
And Fischer 1916 game is kinda weird also, since he wasn't born for 27 years.
1916 was a big year for nonexistent players.
The Morphy smothered mate game is from a book by P. W. Sergeant published in 1916. Morphy's opponent was not P. W. Sergeant either because it was played before Sergeant was born.
Why i saw him how he smashed Carlsen
It was obviously Morphy's immortal game 😂😂😂
Dude. I watch a lotta chess videos these days to improve my game but you're by far the biggest help I've found. Other masters review games from decades ago and that's useful but the context you provide along with interesting games, scenarios, rules, advice and puzzles is superior. I recently subscribed, whatever that means, so your videos come up a lot anyway. I've re-watched some, especially with the interesting new traps, and always look forward to the next video. Thank you!
Thanks, David, appreciate the kind words!
"Moslem chess" probably refers to Shatranj, which was the version of chess played in the Muslim world around the 10th century. It evolved from the Indian Chaturanga and then into the European form we play today.
In Shatranj, the rook (rukh) was the most powerful piece. Instead of a queen, there was a fairly weak piece called a counselor (ferz) that could move only one space diagonally. Instead of a bishop, there was an elephant (alfil) that moved exactly two spaces diagonally.
From lndia, through Islamic world , to European courts.
Finally, chess queen appeared.
6:50 the point of the knight move was so the queen didn’t get trapped with Bxf4
Anderson was a master at understanding the dynamics and initiative of a position. Like a lot of very strong players he intuitively understands the power of each individual piece and how to co ordinate them best to create unrelenting attacks!!!
I think studying him as a player could only help you better improve your game.
6:50 the threat is Bxf4, in addition to the one you saw. Moving the knight back saves the queen.
31:06 Got it, yay! These hard problems are sometimes easy in that, since you know it's a puzzle, only one move looks like it does anything.
btw at 6:54 the reason the knight came back is because the queen would have gotten trapped with Bxf4
I recognized the game in the intro just immediately, cuz this position was in my chess club a year ago and I remember how my coach gave me this position, set the clock for 30 minutes and didn't say a single word and just left for lunch. I was calculating for the whole time, half of an hour and didn't solve it. My move was Nc5 and it was wrong, but he said it was ok, not worse than Qg4. With his prompts(2 or 3) I got it and my mind just exploded. Literally no one in the club didn't solve it. My rating on lichess is 1900, average rating of my club I think is 1700. And the irony is that we underestimated Steinitz so much because he was 1st champion and the accuracy of that era was not so cool if you compare it with 20th century. But after that brainbreak we got our words back - Steinitz is the gangster in chess, no doubt. You can't deny
How can anybody underestimate Stainitz????? There is almost no opening in chess withouth Stainitz variation for me he is the goat
@@mislavivkovic9996 when you choose the game to watch, analyze, learn and memorize, games by Fischer, Kasparov and Carlsen looks more solid because of upgraded and advanced theory. Steinitz didn't play Catalan or anything like that and most of his opponents played unsound moves. I know it's not right, but it was our opinion and the reason why we didn't learn from Steinitz. Now it's different tho
@@VladimirPutin-wt5yh ok but Stainitz had just few books no Stokefish and computers of 10000 usd and still we have Stainitz variation of French of Rui Lopez and many others opening invented by him
@@mislavivkovic9996 dude you needed to say that like a year ago to us, really. Yeah. I agree. But back then. I would argue. That's all
1:39 These are pages from A S M Dickins and H Ebert's 100 Classics of the Chessboard, pub. Pergamon Press.
This book has some big mistakes. For example it wrongly claims that game 13 is D Janowski - F G [sic] Marshall, Biarritz, 1912, and the text on the facing page gives some biographical info about Janowski. But the game is actually S Levitzky - F J Marshall, 18th DSB-Kongress, Breslau, 1912, the so-called "Gold Coins Game".
Edward Winter's Chess Note 585 describes this book as "a book with a large number of factual errors", and pointed out the above specific mistakes.
16:22
The Moslem chess is likely referring to Chaturanga, an early precursor of chess. In this game, kings, rooks, knights, and pawns move in the same way as chess, except that pawns cannot move 2 steps in their first move, and there's no castling.
The piece represented by the sideway queen is called Mantri/Senāpati, which is usually called ferz in modern chess variants. It's the precursor of the queen which moves one step diagonally.
The piece represented by the inverted bishop is called Gaja, and there're three kinds of moves recorded, possibly in different chess variants, the first move is two-step diagonally, the second move is two steps orthogonally (vertically or horizontally) and the final move is one step diagonally or one step forward.
This man Anderson was out here setting traps like a true hunter. I’m amazed.
I believe in "Moslim chess" an upside bishop was an elephant who could move exactly 2 squares diagonally, and a sideways queen was weak variation who could move only one square before being allegedly powered up by influence of Queen Isabella of Castile.
Two copies is so your student can read along with you during chess lessons
Nice video nelson but in the game of the century you put Fischer as white and Bryne as black and not the other way around
8:34 knight to g7 check and the bishop to e7 check mate
Fienchetto is pronounced with the k sound, not the ch sound. In Italian, to get the ch sound, you either have an i or an e after the c, like in Cello.
Great selection of games to show us. Would like to see more like these. Really amazing. Thanks for all your content.
Btw congrats on nearly getting 125 k subs I bet when you had just 25k you never thought you would get 100 k more. Good to see you going from strength to strength you deserve it you have worked hard
The famous game Steinitz - von Bardeleben was played in Hastings in 1895.
6:52 it saves the queen tehre was potentially a queen trap if you didnt move the knight
FYI, the Fischer Game of The Century was in 1956.
6:37 white was threatening to trap the queen.😮
I thought the sideways queen was an Amazonian, a pice that moves like a rook, bishop, and a knight, But what's that inverted bishop?
Love your content explain one thing to doesn't make sense to me I'm 2110 on lichess but 1300 fide rated it confused. Going to move over the broad tournaments to increase my rating.
Lichess and FIDE elo systems are separated, there are more bad players on lichess so even high elo is pretty low in FIDE (because I don't think a noob would even attempt FIDE tournaments). But 1300 is actually pretty low...
Always good to revisit the greatest games of history.
Bobby Fischer was born in 1943...
Wonderful games Nelson & thanks for them ! Also ,thank you for switching off Stockfish so we can enjoy human to human " combat " without a machine " spoiling " the beauty of them !
19:59 the problem isn't Nxc7 Nxa8 but Nxc7 Kf8 Bh6 which leads to mate after Qg7 Qxg7#
If anderseen attempted the immortal or evergreen games against stockfish or any of the top chess engines, he would be crushed. I had a game where I sacrificed both rooks to force mate with the queen and bishop... and several years ago, sacrificed both exchanges to force mate with a knight and queen.
the last one was really interesting.
That game Fischer played with 12 years against Donald
The bishrop also attacks the knight
20:36 Nf8 is much cooler, Morphy should've gone for it.
Game of the century was played in 1956, mind.
At 8:20 you ask whether Anderssen calculated it all out. Stockfish shows he had not: If Kieseritzky had played 18...Qb2 instead of 18...Bg1:, he would have a comfortable lead. Because the black bishop would then indirectly cover e7, 19. e5 can be answered with 19...Ne7, giving black the f8 square for his king. White can win back a piece, but when his attack fizzles out, he will still be a rook behind, while the black queen gobbles up white's queenside pawns.
You answered the wrong question, Nelson was asking if Anderssen had seen that position from way earlier in the game and decided it was winning, not if he had calculated every single vatiation possible.
30:39 what about check by knight taking pawn and then chevk by queen
Pleasant picks, though "sadly" I knew four games (almost) by heart, so the puzzle-challenge wasn't there. On a side note, IMHO the 'Evergreen Game' is superior (in terms of quality) to the 'Immortal' one - in other words, I could save the position in the latter-mentioned game (up to a certain point in the game, of course), but would really hesitate attempting to do the same in the prior one.
The Morphy game is (as so many other from this lad) just a blast and a brilliant case study of how to properly develop, how to properly attack and how to do it all in grandeur kind-of-style - it's definitely one of my favourite games of chess, right on par with e.g. the more widely known 'Opera Game'. Alas, Morphy is definitely my all-time favourite chess player.
The Byrne-Fischer game is a bit of a different story - I saw some recap of this game a few years earlier (by agadmator? ChessNetwork? GM Ben FInegold? I'm unsure..) and just kept on gasping at the grand concept Fischer was able to pull off, seemingly without extra effort - needless to say, I would (and probably could) never-ever find such a continuation, calculating it all indepth included. SO this one's truly a masterpiece from a chess genius.
Oh, and I love the messed-up dates as well as the nitpicky comments on that subject - both add extra flavour to an already fun video :-)
LbnL I started a similar collection of articles on chess games & events from the past (during my high-school years - a long time ago), which I managed to find only some time ago. So I can relate to that fondness of re-discovering / coming back to these.. As if childhood came back, at least for a few moments. Nice :-)
Yeah I have also seen at least 4 of those games as well, multiple times probably.
Shocked Morphys Opera House game wasnt chosen here.
And on Fisher's game of the Century. I think it's Stockfish 9 said it was a perfect game by Fischer, with am exception of he played mate in 5 when mate in 4 was possible. Fischer was playing supercomputer moves at 13.
If you saw the position at move 18 after the Queen was "trapped" I dont think any human without prompts could find the win, excpet Fischer on that day.
The only variants I play are risk,and chinese,elephant chess,60 yrs still Trying to master chess
15:50 Morphy was dead by 1916
When i saw Stainitz poison rook i am fallen in love in chess imidietly
6:52 he wanted to avoid losing the queen
Vaguely surprised that 1972's The Applause didn't make the list
Thoroughly enjoyable 😉
1916 must have been the year the book was written.
I was wondering why all the weird comments, then I realized.
By the way, "fianchetto" is pronounced "fee-un-KET-toe" not "fee-un-CHET-toe" (22:49)
Which game was it where I heard that the spectators showered the board with roses?
14:50 why isn't Be2+ an option?
6:55 If the Knight didnt move back, the Queen would be trapped.
The game of the century says 1916
Oh, here I thought that it's gonna be about famous chess games in history, like the one between Cnut the Great and one of his political enemies named Ulf where Cnut basically requested a takeback, poor Ulf refused, it got nasty with some insults and the next morning Ulf was executed... :D
Time to find the other five games! :-)
Haha, in first game Chess com stockfish can't even decide - suggests move for black in the crucial position (eval -1.23), then immediately it's mate in x for white. Lichess better, but only after E5 is actually played.
Your years of Morphy's and Fischer's games are phaqued up.
Well having never heard of this chess variant i do know that *_Moslem_* is how old timey British folks used to spell Muslim so my guess is this is probably a variant from the Middle East or India.
Very nice games
I would have gone d6 knight in immortal game
20:26 Bobby Fisher plays black, right? Legend is backwards.
Even more shame on you: Fisher - Byrne was not played in 1916. It was played in 1956.
hey it's a mistake, we know fisher didn't even exist in 1916
Hey Nelson this is kind of a late comment, but I can't help notice that in the first game you shown I believe the move order is wrong. I believe the bishop takes the rook first, not the queen.
I don't know chess notation that well, but when the two rooks are hanging, the bishop captured the rook first, and then the queen captured the other rook!
8:34 what if Qxh1 instead of Bxh1?
They wrote the book with Fischer's 1956 game in 1916???
wasnt Fischer white in the game of the century? (according to the playertags )
Nice video
Man I've never seen a chess book
Morphy died in the 1800s (1884 thanks Wiki)
Why he not have 1m subs? He gud
There's a question I've been wondering for a long time.
If you have two knights that can move onto F4, how to you write that down? Wouldn't both moves be k-f4?
It may be late but it depends on the case. If there are two of the same piece that can move to the same square, you put the file the piece moved from in the move. An example of this is if there is a knight on the b file and the f file, which the move would be notated as Nbd2 or Nfd2. In very rare scenarios, there can be two of the same piece and on the same file which can move to the same spot. For this, you put the rank the piece was on.
@@77elite9 thanks
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The Morphy game is Paul Morphy - Schrufer played in Paris in 1859. It was published in a book by Sergeant in 1916. Morphy died in 1884. Shame on you 🤡
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