By CEO National Master Evan Rabin
Paul Morphy vs Duke of Brunswick and Comte Issouard is one of the most instructive games of all time. The first unofficial world champion played against two royal amateurs. Ask 100 chess teachers if they have taught the game before and 99 of them will say “yes”. The game was played in 1858 during the intermission at the Paris Opera house. Here it is with my annotations:
The game illusrates basic opening principles, several important teactical themes, e.g pins, forks, intermezzos, etc, forcing moves, and more. It also teaches one to not be materialistic. Usually one would certainly prefer to have an extra queen and knight but not if it means he is going to get checkmated. What have you learned from this game? What other instructive games do you like to analyze?
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