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Tag Name "Morphy" (8)

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Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all
Bobby Fischer
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Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it is simple and logical method that constitutes the true brilliance of his play, if it is considered from the viewpoint of the great masters.
Jose Raul Capablanca
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I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.
Adolf Anderssen
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Genius is a starry word but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.
Andrew Soltis
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In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born in America.
Garry Kasparov
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The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.
Jose Raul Capablanca
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That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all out home-bred chess philosophers, but with his views on Morphy, whom he tries to discredit completely, it is of course impossible to agree.
Alexander Alekhine
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Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury
Mig Greengard