I started losing hope but I decided to look at the thing I was sure about. So i swapped them, tried every possible variation again. I think that this piece is rook, but I am not sure about this. but looking at what the other people came with, I tried to swap white king and the piece on D1 (my first guess was that king stands on D2). It was whether a losing position or a completely losing position (mate in 2, mate in 4). My first problem was to check almost every variation of pieces that could be there, and I also couldnt find anything. The whole story about Morphy sounds really interesting but not really like a story that you can believe in, but the more I was thinking on the position the more I was sure that there will be the answer. And I couldnt find the chess pieces from this time that look similar. But what are the other pieces is just a mistery, they look strange (the painting was made in the middle of 19th century). If you look at the painting its quite easy to say where the pieces are and which of them are pawns. Also I found some other positions from people who actually were lookimg at this painting and they came with something closer, but always it was a completely losing position. There is a strange book position which is associated with this painting, but it hasnt a lot in common with the painting. Sounds really interesting so I came to the chess community trying to find the real position or just make myself sure that this is jusy a cool story with bad actual chess position, what often happens in movies, paintings etc. Placing them in exactly the same position as they were in the painting, he said, “I’ll take the young man’s place and make the move.” Then he made the move which would have set the young man free". Morphy, who knew more about chess than the artist, studied the picture for a time, then called for a chessboard and pieces. There was no move he could make which would not mean defeat for him and so the strong feature of the picture was the look of utter despair on the young man’s face as he realized that his soul was lost. The game had reached the stage where it was the young man’s move but he was checkmated.
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