Chess Problemist Maurian
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Charles de Maurian, well known as Paul Morphy's childhood and life-long friend, developed very quickly as a chess player. He began learning the game from Morphy during the 1853-4 school year at Spring Hill College and was able to place first in the 1858 New Orleans chess tournament. What isn't well known is that Maurian was also a decent problemist. Below are three of his compositions published in his chess column in the New Orleans "Sunday Delta." [I put the positions in the first three diagrams, with the solutions in the 3 below them.]
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