TBH, I'm more impressed by the 8 simultaneous matches than the blindfold. Playing 1 guy blindfolded is something most skilled chess players can do. Playing 8 at the same time? Thats absolutely insane. Edit: I take that back, RECITING EVERY MOVE FROM EVERY GAME THE NEXT DAY is what impressed me the most. Jesus.
Well, as impressive as this, there's a grandmaster named Timur Gareyev who once played a blindfold simul against 48 people of rating 1700 and higher, winning 35, drawing 7 and losing 6, all while riding 22Km on an exercise bike.
@@Jimbo-yn4fh Dude, he was in a simul with 48 people. And when I say 1700 and higher I don't just mean 1800-1900, there were some 2200-2300 participating.
Although I have not heard the term used in relation to bishop & knight, I refer to that type of position as an opposition, much like enemy kings sharing a file or rank but one square apart. In the centre of the board, the enemy bishop/knight have four squares in common. Near the edge or corner, that number shrinks to three or two.
Its funny, I heard him say that in a video a little bit back, and very often when my bishop is attacked by a knight I immediately start eyeing that square, its helped me out a lot in blitz because it just becomes such a natural move in endgames.
12:34 Agad: "six wins and two draws against opponents with *actual* skill" I can picture Morphy's previous opponents all contemplating their life choices rn
I believe in his era, most ''good chess player'' does not play chess for a living (same can be said about morphy who is a lawyer), so its not a major embarrasment to lose.
@@aaronsung6208 It's probably true that most of the people in this simul had careers other than chess, but Morphy also played many matches against people who didn't and creamed them, too.
@@elonweintraub9758 correct me if im wrong, chess wasnt a extremely competetive (more like for fun game) until Soviet Union politicalize it to demonstrate the its own interlectural strength, and fall off when engine and opening theory takes over.
"And when you see the photo, you realise it was really against 50 players cause everyone in the second room had multiple people helping to brainstorm moves.." wtf.
@@krithickyeshwanth2481 yeah...but I'm thinking like somehow Morphy could reborn in this timeline and would train with modern engines for atmost 2 yrs (based on his talent 2 yrs is more than enough) and then we'll have a match between them
Yep.....but he had a extraordinary memorization, like most top chess players, and had the complete law book in his head. He could also memorize complete games of other players, even if they were played years ago.
@Daniel Burke All great chess players have excellent memories whether it be long term to remember many games for a long time, or short term as a cache for calculating lines. While Morphy truly is incredible, it should be obvious from looking at his games that there wasn't the same need to calculate as deeply back then as there is now with the help of engines. I would say that you are very wrong if you think that Magnus and other top chess players do not have an incredible capability to calculate lines they haven't seen before; they most certainly do, but when faced with engine lines that can calculate 40-50 moves deep it is natural for there to be inaccuracies. Morphy never had to calculate this deeply nor accurately because he wasn't facing opponents who had the vast chess knowledge we had today. All in all, it is wrong to claim that Morphy was a better player than Magnus. He was certainly a better player than anyone of renown in his time and clearly he had a set of skills that is still essential for top chess players today, but would he be the best? We can never say and it is silly to make any claims.
@@jx14aby He had a photographic and absolutely insane memory. Imagine playing 8 games at the same time without any board, and not get confused in any way, even going as far as being able to recite all 8 of them, move by move. Stuff like this just completely baffle me to be honest
That would be an honour. Honestly, if you could go back in time, to play the guy, but you wouldn't be remembered for anything else, would you take that chance? I would. I would also like to take "AlphaZero" with me, but f*&k yes.
Nakamura said that Morphy and Fisher were the most far ahead to their contemporaries. Morphy around 400 elo points and Fisher 200. Nobody in chess history was so dominant in his time than these two genius.
Hard positional chess with a strikingly modern feel. Morphy's PTV move was the best, but he had other reasonable alternatives too. One thing I notice about this saga is how much stronger Morphy becomes as we go along.
Maybe he knew the rules of storytelling and that it will become a saga 150 years later, so he volunteered to be the cardboard villain and tried every dirty trick like a heel wrestler using a foreign object when the ref looks the wrong way.
Big applause for our friend Harwitz, who decided to continue the match when Morphy was ill.........Morphy probably does not care at all and have this chicken for breakfast.
I started playing a drinking game where everytime agadmator says "captures captures" "completely new game" "castles castles" or "for those who want to enjoy the show" you take a drink. I'm barely coherent as I type this sentence.
Next day woke up and wrote all the moves and variations of yesterday.. I can't even remember the initial position thank god chess.com sets up the board this is insane man
I don't get most last time this early comments. What does the above one even mean? Magnus still is the world champion, doesn't matter whether you saw the video early or not.
Apart from enjoying the game proper, also thoroughly enjoyed the widening of my vast knowledge about "Agadmator's sayings." 1. .."Ok there may be an idea..ok maybe two..ok three of winning this for white..." 2 "Knights and Bishops have a long distance relationship".. 😂😂😂
Feels so great when i see millions of views for his videos...it reinforces the work done by Agadmator in spreading awareness about the wonderful game of chess 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Sometimes, when I see someone playing against Mr. Hoodie guy, I catch myself sprinting to the dressing room, and I feel kinda dumb. Anyone else? By the way I love how your videos improved over the years
#suggestion Geller v. Bronstein Kislovodsk, 1968. Geller plays agressively, takes his king on a walk in front of the queenside pawns and wins. Geller also won the tournament with 11/14, according to chesspro.ru/statistic/geller.shtml , however I couldn't find the overall standings
While playing 8 blind games simultaneously: "Qc6?! Great, now I can win a pawn in 10 moves by force. Now I shouldn't have any problems here. The other 7 games are going nicely as well. Could somebody bring me some reading material? I'm a bit bored..."
3:30. I disagree, I believe he moved his Knight to b4 to secure either the light square bishop or the c2 pawn. If the bishop moves the pawn is won and thus Senguine would be up a pawn. If not, he will secure the bishop disabling the pishop pair advantage Morphy had. I believe that this actually favours Senguine rather than 'capturing for no reason. I think you overlooked this move and is move powerful than it seems.
Wait, what? He went to sleep, got up the next morning, and then was like "Hey, can you take dictation? I want to immortalize me crushing theses noobs move by move and do analysis while I do it - you know, those eight games I played blindfolded without a break yesterday. Yeah. Those games."
Unbelievable again. Morphy was really amazing and his games are simply beautiful and stylish. I hope that Löwenthal has more comments on Morphy's game - after all, Löwenthal thought of himself as the most qualified judge of chess (despite being severely beaten by Morphy, that is...).
04:40 "It's not probably what you are going for, but it also might be" I really need Agadmatorinho to comeback and make a video compilation with all this agadmator's "it is but it is not" statements.
