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I just found this game for the first time. Enjoy



Napolean vs Morphy

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Brilliant!

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Notice how by move 11 Morphy has all four minor pieces and his queen in play, but his opponent has only managed to get two pieces out and castled. What is more one of white's developed pieces is about to be swapped off and this is in a gambit line where he has given up a pawn for rapid development.

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Originally posted by DeepThought
Notice how by move 11 Morphy has all four minor pieces and his queen in play, but his opponent has only managed to get two pieces out and castled. What is more one of white's developed pieces is about to be swapped off and this is in a gambit line where he has given up a pawn for rapid development.
Yes. White however was more developed than many of morphy's opponents. LOL.

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Perhaps it's worth pointing out that White was a French-born American player called Napoleon Marache, rather than his more famous namesake, Napoleon Bonehead.

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Originally posted by Data Fly
Perhaps it's worth pointing out that White was a French-born American player called Napoleon Marache, rather than his more famous namesake, Napoleon Bonehead.
He still had to face his own Waterloo in that game though 🙂

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We know all about Morphy, how about his opponent, Napoleon Marache.

Marache was born 3 years and 3 days after the Battle of Waterloo.
This link is an excellent Wiki article (some do exists) on Marache written by a chess player.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Marache

Napoleon Marache - Paul Morphy. New York, 1857

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
We know all about Morphy, how about his opponent, Napoleon Marache.

Marache was born 3 years and 3 days after the Battle of Waterloo.
This link is an excellent Wiki article (some do exists) on Marache written by a chess player.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Marache

Napoleon Marache - Paul Morphy. New York, 1857

[pgn]
[FEN "r1bqk1nr ...[text shortened]... ueen.} 19... Ng3 20. Qxg6 Nde2 {Very possibly the first pure two Knght mate in history.} [/pgn]
Thanks for the annotation and the link. On move 15. ... dxc3 (shown as move 9 in your annotation), I'd thought it was to make a square for the knight I hadn't really seen the constriction of white's pieces.