Morphy – Carr

A time-honored strategy when playing against a blindfolded opponent is to adopt an obscure, and often bad, opening, in the hope of creating confusion. It is a bad idea, and rarely works!

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Date: 1858.??.??
Location: ?
Tournament: Blindfold Game
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Published on: February 9, 2020

[Event "Blindfold Game"] [Site "?"] [Date "1858.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Morphy"] [Black "Carr"] [Result "1-0"] [PlyCount "49"] 1.e4 h6 2.d4 a5 {A time-honored strategy when playing against a blindfolded opponent is to adopt an obscure, and often bad, opening, in the hope of creating confusion. It is a bad idea, and rarely works!} 3.Bd3 b6 4.Ne2 e6 5.O-O Ba6 6.c4 Nf6 7.e5 Nh7 8.f4 {White has superior development and complete domination of the center. Morphy hardly seems to be confused by his opponent's ridiculous opening strategy.} Be7 9.Ng3 d5 10.Qg4 O-O {This is knows as "castling into it".} 11.Nh5 {Suppose Black plays 11... g6 here. How could you bring the game to a rapid close.} g5 {Black has little choice but to create this major weakness on the kingside.} 12.fxg5 hxg5 13.Bxh7+ Kh8 {13...Kxh7 14.Nf6+ Bxf6 15.Rxf6 and checkmate will follow shortly.} 14.Nf6 dxc4 15.Bc2 {Everyone at Electronic Arts hopes that you will never, ever, be in such dire straits as Black is here, even if your opponent is blindfolded! Black now uses a combination to exchange queens, but loses material.} Qxd4+ 16.Qxd4 Bc5 17.Qxc5 bxc5 18.Bxg5 {Black's position cannot be said to be much improved. Fortunately, Morphy does not allow Mr. Carr to live long enough to suffer greatly.} Nc6 19.Rf3 Kg7 {Now Morphy forces checkmate in 6 moves.} 20.Bh6+ Kxh6 21.Rh3+ Kg5 22.Rh5+ Kf4 23.Kf2 Rg8 24.g3+ Rxg3 25.hxg3# 1-0