• E4: The Pride and Sorrow

  • Dec 26 2020
  • Length: 16 mins
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  • A nine-year-old boy shows his father and uncle where they went wrong in their recent game.   The remarkable thing?  Nobody had ever taught him how to play chess.


    The game this time is Morphy vs. Duke Karl and Count Isouard (1858).   You can find the annotation here:  https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1233404


    Episode Resources:

    • Book: Paul Morphy: Pride and Sorrow of Chess by David Lawson

    • Book: The Oxford Companion to Chess by David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld

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