Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all.
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[Event "rated untimed match"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "White player"]
[Black "Black player"]
[Result "*"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[FEN "7k/8/4b3/8/5K1P/3B2P1/8/8 w - - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
[TimeControl "0"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
{ Wrong Colored Bishop Protects the Right Pawn.|White's objective is to
advance his pawns without losing the g-pawn.|Black will gladly sacrifice his
bishop for the g-pawn, because of white's wrong colored bishop.
White can
try: } 1. Bf5 ( 1. g4 { A natural move that blunders away the win. } 1... Bxg4 2. Kxg4 { Draw.|If you don't know why it is a draw, then review the bishop and pawn
lessons again. } ) 1... Bc4 ( { Black can try: } 1... Bf7 2. g4 Bh5 3. g5 { White
avoids the tempting capture on h5 which would result in a draw.|White remains
on course for the win. } ) 2. g4 Be2 3. g5 Bh5 4. Bg4 Be8 5. h5 Kh7 6. Ke5 Kg7 7. h6+ Kh7 8. Kf6 Kh8 ( { Black can try to blockade the pawns: } 8... Bg6 9. Bf5 Bxf5 10. Kxf5 Kh8 11. g6 Kg8 12. Kf6 Kh8 13. g7+ Kg8 14. Ke7 Kh7 15. Kf7 Kxh6 16. g8=Q Kh5 17. Qg3 Kh6 18. Qg6# ) 9. Bf3 Kh7 10. Bd5 Kh8 ( { Black can
try to blockade the pawns: } 10... Bg6 11. Bg8+ Kxg8 12. Kxg6 Kh8 13. Kf7 Kh7 14. g6+ Kxh6 15. g7 Kh5 16. g8=Q Kh4 17. Qg2 Kh5 18. Qg3 Kh6 19. Qg6# ) 11. Bf7 Ba4 12. g6 Bc2 13. g7+ Kh7 14. g8=Q+ Kxh6 15. Qg7# *