Mikhail Tal vs Paul Morphy
Decades ago in Soviet Union a documentary was filmed about hypnosis. And in one of the episodes Mikhail Tal told about a very unusual experiment.
Journalist: You have played lots of games in your chess career. Can you recall about the most unusual one and tell us about it?
Mikhail Tal: Perhaps I can, because I’m probably one of the few modern chess players who was lucky enough to play with Paul Morphy. A famous psychiatrist in Moscow hypnotized a boy and convinced him that he was the famous American chess player of the mid-19th century. Thereafter I was offered to play a match but the lad got into his role so deeply that he behaved like a real champion; for a while refused to play with an “amateur” and then demanded a fee of 100k dollars.
The fee was handed to him in the form of a piece of paper. That was a hard-fought match, but I must say I won it with a lot more difficulty than, say, half an hour later when Paul Morphy was a regular Moscow boy again.
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