The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess ChampionEdge, Frederick Milnes
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The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion
Edge, Frederick Milnes
Chess; Morphy, Paul Charles, 1837-1884
Morphy, 7, Anderssen, 2, Drawn, 2
" 5, Harrwitz, 2, " 1
" 7, Mongredieu, 0, " 1
OFF-HAND GAMES (EVEN).
Morphy, 5, Anderssen, 1, Drawn, 0
" 2, Bancker, 0, " 0
" 7, Budzinsky, 0, " 0
" 0, Harrwitz, 1, " 0
" 12, Journoud, 0, " 0
" 5, Laroche, 0, " 2
" 6, Rivière, 1, " 1
ODDS OF PAWN AND MOVE.
Morphy, 5, Budzinsky, 1, Drawn, 1
" 2, Devinck, 0, " 2
" 1, Guibert, 0, " 0
" 3, Laroche, 0, " 3
ODDS OF THE PAWN AND TWO MOVES.
Morphy, 4, Delaunay, 0, Drawn, 0
" 5, Lecrivain, 2, " 0
" 3, Lequesne, 0, " 1
CONSULTATION GAMES.
Morphy, 2, Saint Amant and Lequesne, 0, Drawn, 2
" 0, De Rivière and Journoud, 1, " 0
" 5, Duke of Brunswick, Counts
Casabianca and Isouard, 0, " 1
" 5, Duke of Brunswick and Count
Isouard, 0, " 0
BLINDFOLD GAMES.
Morphy beat Messrs. Bancker, Bierwirth, Bornemann, Potier,
Préti, and Seguin, and drew the games with Messrs. Guibert and
Lequesne.
At Versailles, Morphy, playing blindfolded, won against
Monsieur Chamouillet and the Versailles Chess Club playing
together against him, _in consultation_.
I should like to say something on the above score, but feel quite
incompetent to the task. I can merely state that no player who ever lived,
(of whom we know any thing,) can produce such a catalogue of victories.
Surely, it is not too much to declare, on the authority of so much proof,
that
MORPHY CAN GIVE PAWN AND MOVE TO EVERY LIVING PLAYER.
VALEDICTORY.
Paul Morphy has vanquished the paladins of the Old and New Worlds, and
vaulted into the very throne of Labourdonnais and Philidor.
Is not this indeed a victory for him,--a triumph for his countrymen? Shall
not this youth be esteemed worthy of all honor, who, without experience,
has, by his own marvellous genius, eclipsed the brightness of those stars
which have flashed in the chess firmament before him?
Chess may be but a game, a pastime, a relaxation; but Chess has at times
absorbed the faculties of the intellectual in every clime; it numbers
amongst its amateurs the greatest names of battle-fields and thrones; it
tells of warriors, poets, painters, sculptors, statesmen and divines; it
possesses a literature and language of its own; it makes enemies friends,
and finds a temple on the ocean, in the fortress, and by the peaceful
fireside.
And long as Chess shall last, Paul Morphy's name will be as a "Household
Word," and his deeds be held in lasting memory.
THE END.
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