Paul Morphy | The Rise and Fall of a Chess Legend
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- Опубліковано 1 кві 2022
- Do you know that Paul Morphy retired from the game at only 22 years of age because no one could match him and he got bored of winning?
Or that one of his most famous miniatures happened because he wanted to finish the game as quickly as possible to enjoy the opera performance?
Here's a short walk through the life and achievements, ups and down, victories and losses, mainly victories, of the great one and only Paul Morphy.
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Needs to be a movie about this guy! An amazing (short) life. And a Nola hero.
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Watch queens Gambit....just with a little bit changed narrative 😅😂
They copied him putting an impostor in place him as her in many many ways
@@shashanksharma4696 true. But Paul’s real life needs exploring on the screen. He hit the highs and the subsequent decline was shocking ending in his tragic death in the colourful city of New Orleans.
Really, nice visualisation! =) Thanks for your work.
Imagine this monster today. With the benefit of all the theory and engines.
Devoting full time to chess, plus having unlimited coaching, to correct any weaknesses and or mistakes, which probably wouldn't have been that many. He may have even became world chess champion. He would've been very formidable, perhaps even beating men such as Kasparov, Karpov, and some of the other chess greats. Morphy was absolutely a beast as a chess player.
Very good vid!
very nice editing, like the simple style
Nice video
Paul Morphy is the greatest chess player to have ever lived. Nobody will ever come close to his talent, ability or pure domination of chess. He is the greatest of them all.
source?
@@AJD... He dominated chess from the age of 9. Nobody will ever do that again.
@@ewanjamie1171 lmao dominating at an early age doesn't make you greatest of all time. Playing the best chess does.
Look I love Morphy. He was a chess genius no one can deny that. But he definitely isn't the GOAT
What makes Morphy the greatest in my opinion is during his lifetime there was little to no chess learning resources. There may have been one book available printed in German available at that time. To become that good with no books, no computers no chess coaches etc was truly something else. If all things being equal and every chess player had the same resources, i would back Paul Morphy to be the best of all time.
@@ewanjamie1171 exactly! What you described is a hypothetical situation. So in today's day and age, he simply isn't the GOAT
The most alien genius of chess
I like the amatuer style of this video. It's simple, well paced, decently narrated and does not degenerate into details. Don't try to improve :)
I think it's very possible Paul Morphy was the greatest natural chess-genius who ever lived, even surpassing phenomenally gifted Bobby Fischer, who I would rank second in this same category.
[Note: I consider this a different question than the "best" chess player ever.]
Was he really a Confederate spy? Makes him even more interesting.
Genius but sad 😿
It was also in the time of bobby fische that the hope for an american champion was revived
Morphy can be considered the GOAT. He was a genius as far as intellectual book learning capacity and excelled in his university studies, including memorizing the entire Louisiana law code by heart! He was a smallish and frail person of person 5'4 height. He was brought up to be chivalrous, a gentleman of impeccable manners and education. His father and uncle were judges of Spanish origin (having immigrated to Spain from Ireland where the family name was Murphy); his mother was of French origin. The family was wealthy and of upper class status. Morphy spoke Spanish, French, probably knew Latin as well as other European languages. He was a child chess prodigy who quickly beat elder chess masters and soared above and beyond all players.
Why then did Morphy become unhinged?
He wasn't fully crazy or insane in a dangerous way but did talk to himself, had eccentricities and became 'odd.' Unfortunately, Morphy never learned survival skills of a practical nature. He never worked a day in his life and lived off his family wealth. With his education in law he could have followed in his father's footsteps of being a judge, or maybe even a university teacher. But again, Morphy was too lazy and indulged in his family's wealth and distanced himself quickly from the world and reality. Morphy became neurotic to the point that he thought people were trying to do him in and had stolen his family riches.
Once giving up competitive chess he basically withered away and had no goals or aim in life. Morphy was more a victim of his wealthy and spoiled upbringing than anything else.
Morphy didn't practice law due to circumstances that were beyond his control. It wasn't because of him being lazy. He was intellectual brilliant, but unfortunately due to no fault of his own, became mentally ill.
I read that Morphy's law business was shunned because Morphy was pro-Union during the Civil War.
Didn't know he died mad. Thanks for that.
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He lived, he played chess, he died…. Did I miss anything?
wasn't born 200 years ago, let alone playing at that time.
Why did he went crazy at the end?
Mentally illness has different causes, some genetic, environmental, or a combination. He wasn't able to practice his profession, as a lawyer, do to unforeseen circumstances, and may have just slowly lost it, because he didn't have a purpose in life.
Because of the popularity he had. He was afraid of people being envious enough to murder (my opinion)
I wonder if he really was insane as people say, or rightfully paranoid, because perhaps he crossed the wrong person and they threatened his life. I heard he died in the bathtub because he had a heart attack from too cold water on a hot day. Is that even a real way you can have a heart attack?
Cold shock response? Yes! If your heart is compromised, cold water can cause a heart attack. I do cold water swimming (when I’m not playing chess).
He died of a massive stroke.
He became mentally ill, which was very tragic for a man with his intellect.
Imagine you are so bored with winning, you just retire from it.
In those years chess was not giewed as a proper plan for carewr
Playing chess as a career was akin back in those times as like being a professional gambler, frowned upon. Men of the upper class, as Morphy was from, would have a career.
Interesting.
The myth n the legend. Too many well wishes states their favourites as the best ever. Including myself I guess.
Perhaps too far back for any true records to be validated. Naturally the myths n legend grows n grows.
As for me I still think Bobby fisher was the GOAT!!
He just have this unusual face n eye features that tells his not quite normal in the brain department. (Oscar Wilde had this similar unusual look about him).
To me, Fisher’s eyes n face just tells me his is Mr Chess.
Just a silly hunch without any evidence to back myself up….. just based on a gut observations between him, Kasparov n Magnusson.
Was ist los?!
His games were recorded, memorized and noted. Morphy was the real deal. He's part of recorded chess history and proved himself, time after time as a chess player. He beat the best players in the city he lived in, even as a young child. As a young man, he beat the best players, in England, France, and easily beat the best German player of his time, Adolph Anderson. If he would've stayed in Europe, and traveled on to Russia, I have no doubt he would've had no problem defeating their best chess players that country had to offer.
Ben Feingold says he's the best. No shit he's the best. Truth hurts.
Morphy didn’t fight in the war but his brother did. I think he was considered soft. 😕
He wasn't soft but he was smart enough not to get into a war caused by ignorant fools in the South who were too lazy to work hence slavery. The North was no better actually. 600 thousand dead because of idiots and fools on both sides.
He was pro-Union. Not a good thing in NOLA.
@@kirbyculp3449 no direct proof of that. But it could be the case.
Mental illness like Bobby F. ? Is it more common with chess players than the general public? It seems scientists and mathematicians may have a higher rate of mental illness also. What do you think? If this is so then why ?
Did Morphy make any money at chess? Was he independently wealthy because of being from a wealthy family?
bobby f didn't have any mental illness. what are you on about?
I don't know of this is right Like this seems that reasonable Things aren't mentiont because we don't know. Beeing this famous for Something wasn't really nice Sometimes i guess, propably some people didn't want to See him playing chess, it was a brutal time i guess maybe he stopped of fear and this is why he was paranoid at the end. Who knows what's the real Story.
Morphy gave away his chess winnings. Most famously in a match against an alcoholic he gave the $100 purse to the wife. That family named their daughter after Morphy.
The only chess player who never lost a single tournament and the only chess player who played blindly against 8 players. He lost games but no one ever beat him. He died at the age of 28, not 40. Wikipedia is not accurate at all.