For your enjoyment and edification, here’s a chess game that the American chess genius Paul Morphy played against two noblemen during intermission at the Paris Opera in 1858.
Morphy was a brilliant attacking player who liked to mobilize his pieces quickly and go straight for checkmate. Many of his games end in fireworks. (They’re well worth studying; you can find this one and others on the Web at www . chessgames . com/perl/chessplayer?pid=16002 .)
Woah… pwnage…
Wow. That’s what I call playing aggressively.
And efficiently. Even the other chess champions of Morphy’s time were amazed by how quickly he won his games.
Oh, boy, that’s intense.
Isn’t it? Notice that the attack started with a threat to f7. That square and its White counterpart (f2) are worth keeping in mind — like the missing scale in Smaug’s armor in “The Hobbit.”
The final mating pattern is useful to remember, too. When you’ve got the king in a corner, a defended rook is all you need.