The crazy chess game from Samuel Beckett's Murphy 

This is not a conventional chess game. The goal is not to checkmate your opponent. Each player have his own goal to achieve. The game represents the difference between sane amd insane. Mr.Endon as an insane man who could not engage any interaction with outside world, lives in harmony. His pieces are dancing on the board and he doesnt even pay attention what is going on, what white played. When he checked the white king, he doesnt say check, even doesnt look like he acknowleged it. On the other hand, Murphy is a man who tries to escape the world, he wants solitude, harmony. Thats why he started to work in mental hospital. In this game Murphy desperately tried to open up the black's position, destroy his opponent harmony. His main goal in life was to live with insanes as one of them, (look how he tries to sack his queen just to open up the position) but Mr.Endon wasn't even aware of Murphy's existence. I think you should check out the annotations wrote by Beckett himself, they are great comments to illuminate what was going on in this game. Also they are freaking funny.

Wow. It's crazy how quickly your channel evolved.

most beautiful chess game ever

Thank you for covering this memorable literary game.

Hilarious, Suren. My friend and I used to play this game every couple years while drinking whiskey and reading Becket's notes aloud. We would howl screaming laughing. The funniest game in chess history.

Interestingly, there is always smymetry in Endon's camp, whereas Murphy can't attempt to symmetry. Even symmetry black/white. After 1. e4, Nh6 2. Nh3, Rg8 3. Rg1, Nc6 4. Nc3, Ne5 this symmetry is no longer possible since Murphy's own pawn makes Ne4 impossible. I'm curently working on this excerpt, I also think the Murphy's king pathing towards black's camp announce in a way his suicide a few pages after this game.

Woa.. woah! the.. the.. vo... voice!

Well obviously there was an agreement to go for the checkmate without taking any pieces. It may have been part of therapy.

"Murphy" is a superb novel, although in places I must admit I found it baffling.

DIdn’t see even a capture or a check

Very nice chess game 👌

If this is true it was a very funny game. not a single piece captured and the patient swinging on the chair forwards and backwards. Maybe this was the day morphy gone mad :)

I expected this video to gain much more views after Suren mentioned it after hitting 100k. But no... 😭

2:07 and here the King marches towards I don't know where 😂