Chess Strategy and Tactics: Paul Morphy's Amazing Games

Learn From Paul Morphy's genius: Openings, Tactics, and Strategic Insights and Key Principles of the Open Tactical Game

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What you will learn

Be able to play the King's Gambit with key Morphy model games in mind

Be able to play the Italian game and in particular the exciting Evans Gambit with key Morphy model games in mind

Be able to play the Scotch game more comfortably with key Morphy model games in mind

Be able to understand the dangers of the Evans Gambit more clearly as Morphy had nearly a 90% success rate with this in preference to the Ruy Lopez

Be able to see clearly how going for the King can even overcome material odds given at the start of games

Be able to maximise win probability even when playing with extreme material odds using techniques of pawn fragmentation around opponent's king or "Thorn pawns"

Be able to calculate forcing variations more accurately with a Morphy King hunting mindset

Be able to have a number of options and mindset for opening up positions and creating tactical opportunities

Be able to study a master without being distracted too much by modern technical opening theory to more easily grasp key concepts and ideas fundamental to chess

Be able to learn from one the greatest tactical old master to reinforce tactics, forcing moves and combinations and imaginative win-generating concepts

Be able to see how to win against inferior play by non masters who are less familiar with opening theory, tactics and positional play than todays masters

Be able to appreciate more the so called "Romantic era" of chess which featured intuitive sacrifice and mate instead of often tedious modern grinding games

Be able to appreciate a wide range of Paul Morphy iconic games - not just the "Opera" game which Paul Morphy is mostly remembered for

Be able to appreciate why a6 in the Ruy Lopez is named after Morphy - known as the Morphy defence to the Ruy Lopez and is seen in over 65% of Ruy Lopez games

Be able to form a more "concrete" mindset about downside actual exploitability in concrete moves as opposed to what looks intuitively or vaguely promising

Be able to experience a fine "chess game art gallery" with many beautiful and brilliant games which also have great instructiveness to them

Be able to play exciting attacking dynamic chess and especially Gambits which were common in the Romantic era of chess

Be able to understand that Chess understanding concretely is an evolving community database of example games, and Paul Morphy is an essential foundation of that

Chess Strategy and Tactics: Paul Morphy's Amazing Games

What you will learn

Be able to play the King's Gambit with key Morphy model games in mind

Be able to play the Italian game and in particular the exciting Evans Gambit with key Morphy model games in mind

Be able to play the Scotch game more comfortably with key Morphy model games in mind

Be able to understand the dangers of the Evans Gambit more clearly as Morphy had nearly a 90% success rate with this in preference to the Ruy Lopez

Be able to see clearly how going for the King can even overcome material odds given at the start of games

Be able to maximise win probability even when playing with extreme material odds using techniques of pawn fragmentation around opponent's king or "Thorn pawns"

Be able to calculate forcing variations more accurately with a Morphy King hunting mindset

Be able to have a number of options and mindset for opening up positions and creating tactical opportunities

Be able to study a master without being distracted too much by modern technical opening theory to more easily grasp key concepts and ideas fundamental to chess

Be able to learn from one the greatest tactical old master to reinforce tactics, forcing moves and combinations and imaginative win-generating concepts

Be able to see how to win against inferior play by non masters who are less familiar with opening theory, tactics and positional play than todays masters

Be able to appreciate more the so called "Romantic era" of chess which featured intuitive sacrifice and mate instead of often tedious modern grinding games

Be able to appreciate a wide range of Paul Morphy iconic games - not just the "Opera" game which Paul Morphy is mostly remembered for

Be able to appreciate why a6 in the Ruy Lopez is named after Morphy - known as the Morphy defence to the Ruy Lopez and is seen in over 65% of Ruy Lopez games

Be able to form a more "concrete" mindset about downside actual exploitability in concrete moves as opposed to what looks intuitively or vaguely promising

Be able to experience a fine "chess game art gallery" with many beautiful and brilliant games which also have great instructiveness to them

Be able to play exciting attacking dynamic chess and especially Gambits which were common in the Romantic era of chess

Be able to understand that Chess understanding concretely is an evolving community database of example games, and Paul Morphy is an essential foundation of that

Be able to understand more what chess commentators mean when they use terms like "principled"

Be able to handle Open positions - Mikhail Botvinnik indicated that in such handling there has been nothing new since Morphy

Be able to see why Bobby Fischer called him one of the most accurate players who ever lived

Be able to see why Bobby Fischer considered Paul Morphy to be probably the greatest genius of them all