He Checkmated with castling. That's all you need to know.

In this video, I'll be showcasing some of the most insane chess games played by Paul Morphy. These games are legendary in the world of chess history.

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➡️ PGN OF THE GAMES:

GAME 1:

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Paul Morphy"]
[Black "Charles Le Carpentier"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 Bb4+ 5. c3 dxc3 6. O-O cxb2 7. Bxb2 Bf8 8.
e5 d6 9. Re1 dxe5 10. Nxe5 Qxd1 11. Bxf7+ Ke7 12. Ng6+ Kxf7 13. Nxh8# 1-0

GAME 2 ( :

[Event "Paris"]
[Site "Paris FRA"]
[Date "1858.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Paul Morphy"]
[Black "Duke Karl / Count Isouard"]
[Result "1-0"]
[EventDate "?"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "33"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Bg4 {This is a weak move already. — Fischer} 4. dxe5
Bxf3 5. Qxf3 dxe5 6. Bc4 Nf6 7. Qb3 Qe7 8. Nc3 c6 9. Bg5 {Black is in what's
like a zugzwang position here. He can't develop the [queen's] knight because the
pawn is hanging, the bishop is blocked because of the queen. — Fischer} 9... b5
10. Nxb5 cxb5 11. Bxb5+ Nbd7 12. O-O-O Rd8 13. Rxd7 Rxd7 14. Rd1 Qe6 15. Bxd7+
Nxd7 {And now for the memorable checkmating combination:} 16. Qb8+ $3 {[%c_effect
b8;square;b8;type;Brilliant;persistent;true]} 16... Nxb8 17. Rd8# 1-0
GAME 3:

[Event "New Orleans 1850?"]
[Site "New Orleans 1850?"]
[Date "1850.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Paul Morphy"]
[Black "Alonzo Morphy"]
[Result "1-0"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/1NBQKBNR w Kkq - 0 1"]
[Eventdate "?"]
[ECO "000"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[Plycount "35"]
[Setup "1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. Nxf7 Kxf7 7. Qf3+ Ke6
8. Nc3 Nd4 9. Bxd5+ Kd6 10. Qf7 Be6 11. Bxe6 Nxe6 12. Ne4+ Kd5 13. c4+ Kxe4 14.
Qxe6 Qd4 15. Qg4+ Kd3 16. Qe2+ Kc2 17. d3+ Kxc1 18. O-O# 1-0

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➡️ music used in the video:

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Music: The Chase by Soundridemusic

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Music: Tensions Run High by Soundridemusic

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Music: Dark Crimes by Soundridemusic

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Music: Crime is Everywhere by Soundridemusic

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Music: Tension Mode by Soundridemusic

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Music: Fear of The Dark by Soundridemusic

Song: Evan King - Guardians

[deavenrector]

If someone castled checked mated me, That'll be my last game

[amakrid]

Morphy may be the GOAT in my opinion. No engines, no books, no games to be recalled by an extraterrestial memory. Just brilliant, innovative unadulterated chess and nothing else...

[NotAgainEnzo]

He was basically bobby fisher before bobby fisher

[thetimebinder]

"Then he sacrifices...THE QUEEN!" - Gotham Chess

[GlobalWarmingSkeptic]

One of the biggest what-ifs in history is if Morphy had computers and advanced theory to work from with his pure natural understanding of the game. He probably would have been the greatest player in history given how little time he had to seriously work with the game and the low level of competition to truly refine his skills.

[DanielSong]

Reaching the 8th rank with the King is pretty legendary too

[playingchillchess]

I think Morphy was born with Stockfish inside his brain. Very nice video tho!

[roguecivilian]

Its sad that we will never know what Morphy’s final form looked like.

[TonyTigerTonyTiger]

1:19 Retreating the bishop to f8 doesn't protect the b7 pawn. You are on the wrong side of the board.

[Ximonius]

He was magnus who was just born too early

[briansammond]

At the end of each game, could you wait a couple seconds before moving on for folks to linger on the final move? Other than that, the pacing is good.

[MichaelSmith-lbpt]

It's amazing that Morphy had only a limited number of chess books to study from (if he did at all) but yet develop chess theory himself. He was just 12 in this game, and would sacifice pieces to checkmate. Most players do not want to sacifice a piece, but his extraordinary calculating and creative play makes his games very excting to study. He was the best of all time.

[TushanGhosh-vq]

Imagine if he had faced Tal instead, it would have been called the "THE GAME OF THE CENTURY"

[jamestrujillo]

Paul morphy was the mozart of chess. There will never be another paul morphy ever. One of the beautiful minds to play the game

[musica-z]

4:45 My true reaction: "bree-illiant... bre-illiant... Bellissimo!" [chef's kiss]

[Yogi-Megan]

Great video and great selection of Games. I'm a Newbie to Chess at 52 And only just learnt castling correctly.... sort of anyways. Memory rather poor these days.
Haven't watched many Chess games and only of the past GM's. Haven't watched any of the modern players at all.
Paul was a natural Chess genius. Watching several of his famous Chess games, it seems that Booby Fischer was heavily influenced by Paul's strategy and method of play, namely attacking.
From my rather limited knowledge and observations, I personally believe that Paul, Sultan Khan and Bobby Fischer are amongst the top five GOAT Chess players.

[RiesenChimato]

What a great video, you deserve way more attention!

[ras]

I’m form New Orleans Morphy is my idol as chess player before Mangus you had Morphy even Bobby Fisher said the greatest chess player ever was Morphy. The way he beat people he played rapid chess in classical chess. He didn’t care what you tried to do he just disregarded it for his gain

[mrtwister]

A Paul Morphy game will never let you down. Always fireworks on the board.

[humbleguy]

Morphy had a big inheritance essentially and didn’t need to work. He tried to start a law practice but didn’t stick with it.