Fischer, Spassky, Larsen Miniatures | Games to Know by Heart - GM Yasser Seirawan 

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Marc Polonsky shut up Mark

Marc Polonsky yea Marc shut up

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I saw that one before but it is incredible

When he essays a lecture its gonna be EXPLOSIVE

read that in Yasser's voice

no, just ideas

Tim S looks like chessbase

Try 16:00

Courtin Baptiste he said it true

Well, yes. But it doesn't make the title of the video right, does it ?

Courtin Baptiste title of the video doesnt say games in order , and why you understand it as it says so ?

The title gives the games in reverse order. Spassky and Fischer won the second and third game that Yasser presented. Lasker won the first, but Larsen is mentioned in the title instead. What don't you understand ?

Courtin Baptiste right

I'm saving this for my French fries. That shit is salty.

I’m a chess artist, with a FIDE rating of under 1200. Here’s my opinion on your screenplay: www.edochess.ca/batgirl/Am.Genius.pdf 1. Paul Morphy: an unhinged man? Why because he was good at chess? He was a logical giant. He fought for his way of life and travelled around the world coming from very little! 2. I don’t think painting Paul Morphy as a paranoid Sherlock Holmes/Bobby Fischer hybrid is a good picture. Try crayons. 3. Did you get beat in Chess and imagine every chess player as a psychopath? It sounds like you’re here taking it out on Yasser and your screenplay looks like you’re taking it out on Morphy. For a high school communication arts project it’s the right amount of angst… 4. I sincerely doubt anyone doubted Morphy’s promise as a young chess player. He was beating people as good as you then. 5. The angst goes on and on, apparently: “They be at that special kin’ a checkers y’all play on Sundays.” Sounds authentic to a white guy. 6. Apparently everyone is precisely normal around someone like Morphy, wondering why he is playing chess at all, and questioning is decisions to participate in tournaments…rather than encouraging him...like they did.. 7. Why are people talking during the chess game and giving suggestions…Oh yeah movie…same reason why there is 2 seconds of introduction to a character before a marriage proposal… 8. OK, I can’t read further, I give it an 80% but it’s missing the facts, if you added in the truth, or maybe changed some of the stuff that isn’t true, you could have a 85% or maybe an 87. Don’t push it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Morphy Check out that page, it's got some information you could use.

Oh so you're a "chess artist" Sonian, with a sub-1200 rating. That makes a lot of sense. I doubt you are any kind of artist. As for your list of points about "An American Genius", I will address each one: 1. Yes, Paul Morphy was unhinged at times towards the end of his life; that is well documented. And this was not because "he was good at chess?" He did travel around the world, so to speak, but he certainly didn't "come from nothing". His family had wealth and influence. 2. What does Paul Morphy have to do with Sherlock Holmes? 3. No I don't imagine "every chess player as a psychopath" and I don't know where you come up with that from either my criticism of Yasser Seirawan or the content of the screenplay itself. 4. Where does the screenplay ever suggest that "anyone ever doubted Morphy's promise as a chessplayer"? There are a number of scenes in the first part of the script in which it is clear that everyone recognizes his exceptional talent. The obstacle that he faced was the attitude conditioned in him that chess was not a respectable occupation for a young man of his class and education. 5. You have a problem with that line? Do you imagine that an uneducated black maid in the mid-nineteenth Century would speak impeccable English? 6. What is "precisely normal" supposed to mean? It sounds so stupid. The people around Morphy behave in different ways, depending on their relationship with him and their objectives. His friend Charles Maurian encourages him to play in chess tournaments; his mother Telcide does not. 7. People are talking in chess games when they are of a casual nature, in a club or cafe, or they are watching from a sufficient distance so that the players cannot hear them, and speaking quietly. And there are several scenes with Nicole Duprey before the marriage proposal, not "2 seconds". We can suppose that they have spent more time together as well. It's called using your imagination. 8. You can't read any further, Smith? That really breaks my heart, since you are no doubt very well connected in the film industry, just like your hero Yasser Seirawan. He took it upon himself to proclaim in front of Rex Sinquefield, and others, that "An American Genius" has "serious flaws" because it wasn't all about Howard Staunton's refusal to play a match with Morphy, even though the script devotes at least a dozen pages to the affair.

You aren't supposed to respond to trolls. I give this response....the worst grade imaginable...an A minus minus!

Didn't know any of the games, maybe don't watch the video then?

What are you talking about? It doesnt go into the endgame. Qd7 is the last move of the game.