| Mar-13-06 | | Autoreparaturwerkbau: Few final moves by the author of the Boden's mate were a true masterpiece! I especially enjoyed 36.g5, which really connects the attack of 2R+2B together in an outstanding fashion - causing the absolutely rare non-odds loss for Morphy. |
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Mar-13-06
 | | Pawn and Two: Boden's only win against Morphy in 11 known games. Morphy scored +6 -1 =4 against Boden. P. W. Sergeant states in "Morphy's Games of Chess", that Morphy considered Boden to be the strongest of his English opponents. |
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| Jun-04-09 | | WhiteRook48: just because of this? |
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| Jun-04-09 | | AnalyzeThis: Boden's strategy with white is sometimes used on the white side of the king's indian these days. |
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| Feb-12-11 | | Llawdogg: Wow! I never came across a Morphy loss before. People always tout his spectacular wins. This game was a cramped un-Morphy-like defeat. Well, I guess there always were and there always will be days like this. Momma said. |
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| Jun-10-11 | | madlydeeply: isn't there some conspiracy theory wherefore Morphy threw a game in order to create interest (and betting) in the match? Morphy is USAmerican...it's all about the dollahs dawg! arf! |
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Jun-10-11
 | | keypusher: <madlydeeply: isn't there some conspiracy theory wherefore Morphy threw a game in order to create interest (and betting) in the match? Morphy is USAmerican...it's all about the dollahs dawg! arf!> Well, I guess there is such a conspiracy theory now. But it's a pretty silly one. This wasn't even a formal match. And I can't think of a chess master who was less interested in money than Morphy. It's been suggested Morphy threw this game against Harrwitz so Harrwitz wouldn't be afraid to play him. Harrwitz vs Morphy, 1858 |
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| Jun-10-11 | | madlydeeply: drat i get my conspiracies mixed up! there are so many! thanks for setting me straight kp! (hmm wasn't beetle bailey always on kp? circles within circles...plans within plans...) |
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| Jun-01-13 | | Abdel Irada: <hmm wasn't beetle bailey always on kp?> Could have been worse. If food had got really scarce, he might have had to face his worst culinary nightmare: Ground Zero. ∞ |
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| Jun-01-13 | | Abdel Irada: Slightly outdated warning to Morphy: Beware Boden's bishops. ∞ |
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| Jun-01-13 | | morfishine: FWIW: With all due credit to Boden, Morphy preferred 2...Nc6 (steering toward a Ruy, Scotch, or 3-Knights game) vs 2...d6 Since this was an informal game, and the Philidor defense was popular at the time, I wouldn't be surprised if Morphy agreed to play this defense before hand |
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| Jun-01-13 | | kevin86: Boden bodes well vs PM-but only here. It's only too bad that he couldn't mate Morphy with his famous queen sacrifice mate. |
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| Jun-01-13 | | Snehalshekatkar: This is the only game by Morphy which I seen in which Morphy didn't follow opening principles. For example he chose closed Philidor defense and I don't understand move like Bd7 by him in this game. |
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Jun-01-13
 | | offramp: Most of these old games are just one side getting himself into massive trouble then trying everything under the sun to get back to normal LOL! |
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| Jun-01-13 | | RookFile: Bd7 was fine. He wants to hit the queen with ....Nc6 and have it run away, not give white the option of pinning the knight with Bb5. |
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| Jun-01-13 | | RookFile: Should black have preferred 9....Ng4 10. Bf4 f5?
Milder alternatives would have been 9...Ne5 or 9.....Kh8 (idea of ...Ng8 and ...f5). |
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Jun-01-13
 | | al wazir: 41...Kg7 42. Rh1 Nc4+ 43. Ke2 Nxd6 44. Bf7#. |
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| May-24-15 | | TheFocus: <The possibilities of Morphy's genius have never been half revealed because only a very limited exercise of its powers has been sufficient to insure victory> - Samuel Standidge Boden (after losing to Morphy). |
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Jul-08-18
 | | MissScarlett: <The possibilities of Morphy's genius have never been half revealed because only a very limited exercise of its powers has been sufficient to insure victory> Source? I'm wondering whether this could be a back translation of something Boden wrote in <The Field> in July 1858 (as quoted by Lawson's book): <He possesses a truly gigantic capacity for chess which was never fully called forth, because even its partial development sufficed to enable him to triumph over all opponents.> |
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Aug-26-24
 | | Honza Cervenka: Much better would have been 20.Rxh8 Kxh8 21.Rh1+ Nh7 22.Nf5 Bxf5 23.exf5 Qf8 24.Bxg5 fxg5 25.f6 and white wins. Also 26.Rxh4! gxh4 27.f4! Rad8 28.Qxe7+ Kxe7 29.fxe5 Rxd1 30.exf6+ Kf7 31.Bxd1 was winning faster. |
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Aug-26-24
| | Honza Cervenka: 36...fxg5 37.Bxg5+ Ke6 looks safe for black. 37...fxg5 loses instantly. 37...Rxh6 or 37...Rd7 were better options. |
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