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Subject: Re: Human brilliancy.......Most Morphy Moves are an Enigma.....!

Author: Rob Basham

Date: 08:07:01 07/28/05

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On July 27, 2005 at 23:24:14, Eberhard wrote:

>This game was played 150 ago by Paul Morphy. His games laid the foundation for
>modern chess theory.
>
>[Date "1858"]
>[White "Morphy, P."]
>[Black "Count Isouard"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>
>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Bg4 4. dxe5 Bxf3 5.Qxf3 dxe5 6. Bc4 Nf6 7. Qb3 Qe7
>
>[d] rn2kb1r/ppp1qppp/5n2/4p3/2B1P3/1Q6/PPP2PPP/RNB1K2R w KQkq - 0 8
>
>8. Nc3!
>
>Development, not material!
>
>8...c6 9. Bg5 b5? 10. Nxb5 cxb5 11. Bxb5+ Nbd7 12. O-O-O! Rd8 13. Rxd7 Rxd7 14.
>Rd1 Qe6 15. Bxd7+ Nxd7 16. Qb8+ Nxb8 17. Rd8# 1-0


Hi..After years of testing, I gave up on testing Morphy moves because most of
his best moves are still an enigma to this day, and most chess computers just do
not find them!

However, it is fun giving them a try, anyway...:-)

I do not think that any machine will find...8. Nc3....!!

Enigma Regards,

Rob

http://www.chess-poster.com/great_players/morphy.htm



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