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THE LIFE AND CHESS OF PAUL MORPHY                                                                                                                                                                                            ABOUT THIS SITE

 

 

This site is not meant to be an exhaustive nor an authoritative presentation of the life of Paul Morphy.

I borrowed heavily from several sources who deserve all the credit for their original research:

Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess  by David Lawson
Morphy's Games of Chess  by Philip Walsingham Sergeant
Morphy Gleaning  by Philip W. Sergeant
The Exploits and Triumphs in Europe of Paul Morphy  by Frederick Edge
The Chess Players  by Frances Parkinson Keyes
Paul Morphy and the Golden Age of Chess
  by William Ewert Napier
Royal Street  by W. Adolphe Roberts
Lake Pontchartrain
  by W. Adolphe Roberts
Life of Paul Morphy in the Vieux Carré of New-Orleans and Abroad   by Regina Morphy-Voitier
The Chess and Genius of Paul Morphy
(translation and further notes by Ernst Falkbeer)  by Max Lange
The Creoles of Louisiana (1884)  by George W. Cable
Morphy's Games of Chess  by Johann Löwenthal
New Orleans: an Illustrated History  by John Kemp
American Chess Heritage by Walter Corn
Howard Staunton 1810-74 by D. N. L. Levy
The United States Chess Championship: 1845-1991 by Andy Soltis
The First American Chess Congress, New York 1857 by Daniel. W. Fiske
The End of an Era: New Orleans 1850-1860  by Robert Reinders
Twice Remembered: Moments in the History of Spring Hill College by Michael Kenny, S.J.
Sportsmen and Gamesmen (1981) by
John Dizikes
First and Last Days of Paul Morphy by Léona Queyrouze, writing as Constant Beauvais
Poems and prose sketches, with a biographical memoir of Paul Charles Morphy (1921)
by Louis Albert Morphy
Paul Morphy: His Later Life (1900) by Charles A. Buck
Psychology of the Chess Player (1967) by Reuben Fine
The Problem of Paul Morphy (1931) by Ernest Jones

 


Many, though certainly not all, of the quotes from letters and other original sources found here were taken from Lawson's book primarily due their appropriateness.

The text is entirely my own.

For some lateral and cross references I used Hopper and Whyld's Oxford Companion to Chess

Other sources of information include, but are not limited to:

William Winters' Chess Notes at Chess Café (now at chesshistory.com)
Louis Blair
Bill Wall
Mark Weeks
Jerry Spinrad
Anders Thulin
David Brett Richardson
Chris Reynolds
Chessgames.com
Chessbase.com
Chess History Newsgroup


 

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