The Opera Game!

Originally posted by irontigran
knowing games by heart is fine, i know all the moves to the immortal game for example, but... was this game fixed? you both didnt just happen to play all the moves to the great opera game, you planned it ahead of time. just curious..

I can assure you that this game was not fixed. I always play P-Q4 following Philidor's defense. I always follow Morphy's moves until B digresses from the Duke of Brunswick game. This is the first time in my whole playing career that someone tried the P-B3 / P-Kt4 moves.

Originally posted by King Mob
I find it extremely unlikely that both players just happened to replicate Morphy's game by pure chance.

I agree - it is unlikely. But, this was that once in million game! We did not collude!!!