An excellent recent article by Dominic Lawson in Standpoint magazine reminded me of the greatness of Paul Keres. The Estonian grandmaster,whose centenary falls this month, was silver medallist in no fewer than four world championship Candidates tournaments. (I will be writing about him next week.)
Another illustrious player (one with the same first name) is Paul Morphy, the victor of Bobby Fischer’s favourite masterpiece. I saw Fischer demonstrate this game to Fidel Castro during the 1966 Olympiad in Havana and it forms the topic of this week’s analysis.
Morphy–Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard; Paris 1858; Philidor Defence
1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 Bg4 Nowadays, as Kasparov wryly notes in his Everyman Great Predecessors series, upon which the following comments are based, every schoolboy knows that this is bad.
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