user15543: Paul Morphy, from what I’ve seem, seems to have been a master of making weird and wonderful games, such as his famous kingside castling checkmate game. Are there any particular reasons for this? 

user-1: Yes. The reason is simple. For the most part, his opponents were dramatically weaker than him.
Knowledge of the game was in its infancy in Morphy's time, and any number of opponents were murdered in their beds by Morphy's superior grasp of principles of development and calculating ability. The majority of Morphy games are not even contests but good old one-sided floggings.
His match games against the strongest opposition of the time like Anderssen and Lowenthal, while clearing showing him to be superior, are seldom as colorful.

15543: <p>Paul Morphy, from what I’ve seem, seems to have been a master of making weird and wonderful games, such as his famous kingside castling checkmate game. Are there any particular reasons for this? </p>
 -1: <p>Yes. The reason is simple. For the most part, his opponents were dramatically weaker than him.</p>

<p>Knowledge of the game was in its infancy in Morphy's time, and any number of opponents were murdered in their beds by Morphy's superior grasp of principles of development and calculating ability. The majority of Morphy games are not even contests but good old one-sided floggings.</p>

<p>His match games against the strongest opposition of the time like Anderssen and Lowenthal, while clearing showing him to be superior, are seldom as colorful.</p>
