Find Morphy's motives.pdf

Copyright ? 1999-2002 Prof. Chester Nuhmentz, Morphy’s Motives!Exercises for studying the strategies and tacticsbehind the moves of a chess ’s plenty of evidence about what Paul Morphy did when he crushed his opponents, game after game. We know exactly how he moved in thousands of why did he choose one move over all the other possibilities? What was he hoping to plish each time he moved?The CIA (Chess Intelligence Agency) has produced pictures of every move Morphy made in seven of his games. They’ve also diagramed quite a few possible moves that Morphy chose not to make!In this booklet, you can view all of these moves. After studying each one, can you match it to a possible motive?How To Use This BookThere are 4 chess diagrams on each page. The diagrams show positions from the games of the great player, Paul Morphy. The diagrams are always shown from the side Morphy was possible chess move is written above each diagram. These moves are marked by letters. You’ll use the letters when matching moves to motives. Most of these moves were actually made in a game by Morphy. But on every page there’s always a weak move listed -- a move Morphy did not are also 4 questions on each page. Each question belongs with one of the 4 moves on that page. The questions and the moves are given in random order so a question might refer to any of the moves listed on that page. Each question should be answered using a different move. That is, you should use each move (letter) only once to answer a question. Sample diagram and (rhb1kgn4}70p0pdp0p}6wdwdwdwd}5dwdw0wdw}&wdwdPdwd}3dwdwdwdw}2P)P)w)P)}%$NGQIBHR}v,./9EFJMVMove AAThe Two Steps For Finding Morphy’s Motives:Spend some time looking at each chess diagram on a page. Pay close attention to the move written for each position. IMAGINE the move being made. Do you think each move would be weak or strong? Why?Now look over the 4 questions for the page.