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A queen sacrifice and checkmate!

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Another great game from Morphy.Enjoy!

Morphy with black first stops enemy's attack and them takes the upper hand on the chessboard..

Morphy ends his 11 move compination with a queen sacrifice.Enjoy!

This is actually my 11th grade English research paper on a famous American who died before 1960. Just wanted to see what you all thought. Any suggestions or critisisms are welcome. Paul Morphy had everything necessary for success that one could think of. He had a wealthy family, was a hard worker, had an astounding mind, and was well liked by nearly all the people he knew. Yet throughout his life he was met with failure and sadness. His near perfect circumstances and tumultuous final year of life earned him the nickname by which he will forever be remembered, “The Pride and Sorrow of Chess.” If the success of the previous generation has any noticeable effect on posterity then the young Morphy was bound for great things. Born on June 22, 1837 Paul Charles Morphy was the son of Alonzo Morphy, and a young Creole named Louise Carpentier, both of which were from prominent New Orleans families. Throughout his life Morphy's father had many high paying and prestigious jobs. He was a lawyer, Louisiana state legislator, attorney general, and even a Supreme Court justice. These circumstances came together to give Paul the many things a person needed to thrive at that time, and insure him the finest education available to maximize his potential. Morphy was born with an amazing mind. The majority of people born under these circumstances would be content with what they had, but not young Paul. He worked hard and excelled at his early schooling, and learned how to play chess near the age of ten. In 1850, he was accepted to Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. He graduated in 1854, but stayed an extra year to learn as much as he could there. He graduated again the following year, this time with an A.M. degree with the highest honors. Continuing his college studies, he next went to the University of Louisiana to study law. Paul graduated and received a L.L.M. degree on April 4, 1857. In preparation for receiving the degree, it is said that he memorized the entire Louisiana Book of Codes and Laws. Aside from his academic excellence, Paul Morphy achieved a large amount of success in the chess world before he ever left for college at Spring Hill. He was the first recognized chess prodigy to become an exceptionally strong chess player as a boy. According to his uncle, Ernest Morphy, no one formally taught Morphy how to play chess; rather, Morphy learned on his own as a young child simply from watching others play. He demonstrated this feat when his father and Ernest were playing one night. When the game was over and Ernest had lost, Morphy astounded them by declaring that Ernest should’ve won. Then he proceeded to set the position back up and played through the game while they looked on dumbfounded. When Morphy was ten, General Winfield Scott visited New Orleans. Scott, who was a formidable player himself, wished to be challenged by a strong player, so he sent his aids to search out a worthy opponent. That night when the young Morphy was brought to Scott, the general was at first offended; believing it to be an insult. However, after Paul won both games, one in a laughable six moves, Scott and his severely bruised ego retired for the night. When he was twelve, Morphy played three games against a Professional Chess Master, Johann Lowenthal. By the twelfth move in the first game Lowenthal realized he was not playing with a boy who was merely skilled, but gifted. Each time Morphy made a good move, Lowenthal’s eyebrows shot up in a manner described by Ernest Morphy as “comique.” Lowenthal lost all three games he and Morphy played. The following year Morphy was considered the finest chess player in all of New Orleans. After the young man had completed all of his academic studies he still was not of legal age to practice law, and so at the urging of his uncle, he decided to take on the best players in America at the 1857 U.S. Chess Congress. He defeated all the strong competition, including the German Master Louis Paulsen in the final round, and was hailed as the best player in the whole United States at the age of twenty. The people loved him. In the December 1857 issue of Chess Monthly it was stated that “his genial disposition, his unaffected modesty and gentlemanly courtesy have endeared him to all his acquaintances.” Still unable to start a law career Paul decided to travel to Europe and challenge all of the best Masters throughout the world. In 1858, Morphy met and defeated every great European player except Howard Staunton. He even played a match with a German Master Adolf Anderssen while severely ill with influenza, and won handily. Paul also gave multiple blindfold and simultaneous chess exhibitions while in both Britain and France. Morphy was never able however, to play a series of games against the Englishman Howard Staunton, who was at the time considered the best player in the world; though it was not for lack of effort. Staunton knew that he would be beat because he was well past his prime, so he simply avoided Morphy at all costs for the better part of a year. After these victories, Morphy was for a time believed to be the finest player in the world, and is still considered one of two unofficial World Chess Champions (Staunton and Morphy.) After his return from Europe, he infrequently played matches where the opponent received knight and rook odds; winning with very few exceptions. Morphy officially retired from chess in 1863. He returned to the United States at the age of twenty-one to parades and banquets in his honor. One banquet in Boston was attended by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the president of Harvard, and another was attended by the President's son, John Van Buren, who even toasted Morphy. After this triumphant return Morphy played a move no one saw coming, he abruptly abandoned chess to focus on his law career. Unfortunately, this aspect of his life never quite got off the ground. At one time he even had a girl refuse to marry him because he was “a mere chess player.” Many contribute his lack of success in law to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. Morphy did not agree with succession, and spent most of the war traveling to Paris, and Havana, Cuba. When the war ended, his law career still did not succeed and he retired. Depression soon followed, and his family's immense wealth allowed him to spend most of the rest of his life in idleness. As Morphy aged, he started to manifest symptoms of severe paranoia. Paul told his mother that people were out to get him. He insisted that people were trying to poison him and that others wanted to set fire to his clothes. At times he could be found walking the streets of the French Quarter talking to invisible people. During these years he would only eat food prepared by his mother or sister. Morphy also became reclusive and had very little to do with anyone other than his family and a small group of friends. While Paul Morphy sounds quite crazy in these accounts, when he was visited by the first official World Chess Champion Wilhelm Steinitz in 1883, Steinitz said, “Morphy is a most interesting man to talk to. He is shrewd and practical and apparently in excellent health.” This leads some to believe possibly he wasn’t as crazy as first thought. A year later, on July 10, 1884, Paul Charles Morphy was found dead in his bathtub at the age of forty-seven. The autopsy showed that he died of a stroke brought on by entering cold water after a long walk in the middle of a hot New Orleans summer day. He would later be dubbed “The Pride and Sorrow of Chess” by David Lawson, the author of the book which is the only full length biography of Paul Morphy.

Seventeen moves were enough for Morphy.

A lot is known about Paul Morphy's childhood, and a lot of it is still a mystery. Much of what we know, we have learned from Charles A. Maurian, Morphy's childhood and life-long friend. Many articles and interviews appeared in the New Orleans Times-Democrat and in the New Orleans Picayune. We also have Eugene Rousseau, the strongest New Orleans player after Morphy and a close friend, to thank for insight, as well as Judge James McConnell. Maurian tells us: "it's a well known fact that Paul was a chess genius when he was barely nine years old". Morphy himself told Charles Stanley, at the American Chess Congress, that he had attended (at age 8) the Stanley-Rousseau chess match of 1845 (this match supposedly determined the first American chess champion) and that his Uncle Ernest acted as Rousseau's second. Maurian gives us our earliest picture of Paul playing chess: On a balmy summer afternoon Judge Morphy and his brother Ernest were seated on the back porch, which overlooked the long yard, playing chess. The game had bee a particularly interesting one, and lasted several hours, with the result that both armies were sadly reduced, though apparently still of equal strength. The Judge's king seemed in an impenetrable position and Mr. Morphy, after vainly checking and checking, wiped his perspiring brow and remarked that the game was a certain draw. Judge Morphy smilingly agreed with him and the pieces were swept aside to be reset for another trial. Now, little Paul, hardly out of skirts, had been an interested spectator to the closing stages of the drawn battle, and while the men were being replaced he astonished his elders by saying: "Uncle, you should have won that game." Judge Morphy and Ernest Morphy looked at the boy and the former asked, "What do you know about it, Paul?" Paul, with the assurance of a born genius, asked leave to set the pieces in the final position, and, just to humor him, his father consented. The boy faithfully and accurately arranged the men; and. then studying the board for only a moment, leaned forward and said: "Here it is: check with the Rook, now the King has to take it, and the rest is easy." And sure enough it was. The child had seen mate in an apparently impossible position, and the Judge and his brother simply stared at him, hardly able to express themselves in words. In 1846, before the age of nine... The Evening Post relates this story: Gen.Winfield Scott (famous hero of the Mexican War and first Commander-in-chief of the Union forces during the American Civil War) had many acquaintances there (at a chess club on Royal St.), some of them quite intimate, and knowing the habits of the members he repaired to their very comfortable rooms within a few hours after reaching the city. It may be said to have been one of his vanities as well. He was in the front rank of amateurs in his day....he turn to Chief Justice Eustis and asked whether he could play a game of chess in the evening...."I want to be put to my mettle!" "Very well," said Justice Eustis, "We'll arrange it. At eight o'clock tonight, if that will suit you." At eight o'clock, dinner having been disposed of, the room was full. Gen. Scott, a towering giant, was asked to meet his competitor, a small boy of about 10 (actually, he was eight and a half) and not by any means a prepossessing boy, dressed in velvet knickerbockers, with a lace shirt and a big spreading collar of the same material. At first Gen. Scott imagined it was a sorry jest, and his tremendous dignity arose in protest. It seemed to him that his friends had committed an incredible and unpardonable impertinence. Then Justice Eustis assured him that his wish had been scrupulously consulted; that this boy was....quite worthy of his notice, So the game began with Gen. Scott still angry and by no means satisfied. Paul won the move and advanced his Queen's rook's pawn. In response to the General's play he advanced other pawns, Next he had two knights on the field; then another pawn opened the line for the Queen, and at the tenth move he had the General checkmated before he had even begun to develop his defense. There was only one more game. Paul Morphy, after the sixth move, marked the spot and announced the movement for the debacle - which occurred according to schedule - and the General arose trembling with amazement and indignation. Paul was taken home, silent as usual, and the incident reached the end. The few survivors of that era still talk of Paul Morphy's first appearance in public, but only by hearsay. Gen. Scott lived to wonder that should have ever played with the first chess genius of the century, or for that matter, of any other century. From the New Orleans Times-Democrat : ...Well do we remember seeing him (Morphy) from the street playing chess with his grandfather, Mr. Le Carpentier, in the latter's counting room, situated in the lower story of his residence. The boy was small, and the ledgers or other of grandpa's commercial books had to be piled under him to enable him to sit at the required height to the table; and when we thus saw him we did not know, but learned afterwards, that the grandson was all the time giving grandpa the odds of a rook and beating him like Old Harry. In 1850, Paul played the Hungarian master, Johann Jacob Löwenthal and, while there has been some confusion about the results, it's generally believed that Morphy won all three games. Some believe one game was drawn. From Bretano's Chess Monthly: Paul, he says, was a little fellow and stood up to the table. Mr. Morphy and his brother, Judge Morphy, the father of Paul, and Rousseau, were lookers-on. Lowenthal was one of the most noted and scientific players in the world, and a finished, courteous gentleman. He at first supposed that the game would be a bagatelle, but Mr. Morphy told me that as he, Lowenthal, got into the game and felt Paul's force, his startled look and upraised brows after each move of Paul's was perfectly ludicrous or as Mr. Morphy in his French vernacular expressed it, comique. From Sarah's Journal

Morphy wins in only ten moves..

As most people know, Paul Morphy received his L.L.B. degree on April 7, 1857. Since this was shortly before his 20th birthday, he was to young to be admitted to the bar. It would be another year and two months before he could begin practicing law. While he would have begun practicing law in June of 1858, he found himself, instead, setting foot in England, starting his phenomenal and legendary conquest of the European chess world, making himself a national hero in the process - and almost totally destroying his nascent legal career plans and pushing his hitherto charmed life down an inconceivable and contradictory path. Neither Regina Morphy-Voitier nor Leona Queyrouze Barel, who gave us the best personal glimpses into Morphy's life, had much to say about Morphy's legal career. Since neither of them knew him at that time, this is understandable. Very, very little is known about Morphy the lawyer. The business card (on the right) testifies that Morphy did set up his own law office at 12 Exchange Place. Philip Sergeant was under the impression that this was in 1862, and closed because Morphy decided to spend the war years in Paris. David Lawson maintains that Morphy never attempted to set up shop until after he returned from Paris in 1864: Elsewhere [e.g. p.26, Morphy Gleanings] it is stated erroneously that he opened a law office soon after his return in 1859, but this (1864) was his first time to establish himself at his profession. Both Lawson and Sergeant claim that Morphy closed shop after just a couple months, but neither of them offered any substantiation for any of their assertions. According to Lawson from about 1872 to 1874 Paul Morphy partnered with established attorney E. T. Fellows. Most information about this venture is speculation. Morphy's aversion to discussing chess would have made any public profession difficult at best. The extent of his involvement in this firm is unknown. 12 Exchange Place seems to be a common thread that could lead to a lot of conjecture, but nothing, so far, is known about Morphy's connection to that address. In a letter to the New York Sun, May 2, 1877, Charles A .Maurian explained: [Morphy] is now practicing law in this city, and has never been insane, or spoken of in that relation by his family or friends. As to chess, he is unquestionably to-day the best player in the world, although he does not play often enough to keep himself in thorough practice. He gives odds of a knight to our strongest players, and is seldom beaten, perhaps never when he cares to win. This demonstrates that Paul was doing some sort of legal work, and playing chess, as late as 1877. Lawson further wrote: "Whatever activity Morphy engaged in other than chess during the years 1865 through 1866, we know not. Nothing is known of his legal work for clients, if he engaged in any." However, sometime between August 9, 1864 and July, 1867 (when Morphy left for Paris, via Cuba) Morphy, acting as curator ad hoc, represented a client in a civil case before the Louisiana Supreme Court. The case, an appeal, was decided upon in November, 1867. Since Morphy was in Paris, it's apparent that the case was argued, either orally or through written briefs, prior to July of 1867. Morphy's client, A. Dhones, who was the defendant in the original case which was won by the defendant, had the original judgment upheld in the appeal (the appeal was denied). Therefore, sometime between August 9, 1864, when the original suit was filed and July of 1867, Morphy was practicing law in New Orleans. The appeal summary is presented below Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana. pp.503- NEW ORLEANS, NOVEMBER, 1867. [Chief Justice: Hon. Wm. B. Hyman Associate Justices: Hon. Zenon Labauve, Hon. J. H. Ilsley, Hon. R. K. Howell, Hon. J. G. Тaliaferro ] Bellocq vs. Dhones and Penent. No. 823.—H. BELLOCQ v. A. DHONES AND A. PENENT. Plaintiff sues defendant for a settlement of the partnership account, and for damages against the managing partner. A third party intervenes, and claims a schooner as his own property, which he had purchased from the defendant, the managing partner, by notarial act, prior to the institution of the suit. Plaintiff remets his demand on the grounds, 1st: that the act of sale was not recorded, as required by acts of Congress; 2d, that it is not expressed on the face of the act of sale that he acted for himself and partners ; 3d, that the price was not a good one, and the purchaser had notice of the claims of the other partners. The notarial act of sale, which informed the intervenor of the interest of plaintiffs, also informed him that the legal title was in defendant, and that the defendants have full authority to sell the vessel: Held— That, under the terms of this agreement and authority, the transfer of the schooner, by defendant to intervenor, of the legal title, carried with it the equitable title also. APPEAL from the Sixth District Court of New Orleans, Duplantier, J. G. Schmidt, for plaintiff. C. W. Hornor, for intervenor. Paul Morphy, for curator ad hoc. HOWELL, J. [Probably Justice R. K. Howell] This is a suit to dissolve a partnership, sell and distribute the proceeds of a vessel belonging to the partnership, and to recover damages from the managing partner for negligence, unskillfnlness, etc. One of the defendants, A. Penent, joins the plaintiff in his demand. The other is represented by a curator ad hoc. The only question before us is raised on the intervention of Christoval Espinóla, who claims the vessel as owner, by purchase for a valuable consideration from the defendant, A. Dhones, as sole owner, and having the right to sell. By a notarial act between the parties, Dhones, Bellocq and Penent, it is declared, that they are the joint owners of the schooner Glacier, bought and registered in the name of A. Dhones, who is appointed master, and vested with authority to sell, at his discretion, for " a good price." On the 9th of August, 1864, he sold to the intervenor, by act, acknowledged before J. M. Day, Notary, and on the next day this suit was filed, and the schooner sequestered. Plaintiff, who alone complains of the judgment, contends that the title of the intervenor is not good, because it was not recorded as required by act of Congress, July 29th, 1850, (Stat. at Large, vol. 9, p. 440;) because there was no delivery; because it is not expressed on the face of the act of sale, that Dhones acted for himself and his partners; because the price was not a good one; and because the purchaser had notice of the claims of the other partners." We consider it necessary to examine the third and last grounds only, which may be thus stated: The intervenor, having knowledge through his agent, that Bellocq & Penent were partners, the act of sale to him by Dhones, in whom the legal title existed, should have expressed that he acted under his mandate in selling their interest. The rule invoked by plaintiff is undoubtedly correct: "Nothing is better settled than the rule, that the purchaser with notice of a trust stands in no better situation than the seller, and it is equally settled that notice to the agent is notice to the principal." But this rule, as quoted by plaintiff, appears in a dissenting opinion, and was not considered by a majority of the Supreme Court of the United States, to apply to the case decided, which on this point is quite similar to the one now before us. See 2 Black., page 372. The notarial act which informed intervenor of the interest of Bellocq & Penent, also informed that the legal title was in Dhones, and that the latter had full authority to sell the vessel. Under the peculiar terms of this agreement and authority, the transfer by Dhones of the legal title carried with it, in our opinion, the equitable title. The proof adduced by plaintiff of knowledge in the intervenor of his rights, is also proof of his authorization to transfer those rights, which were carried in the name of the transferrer. The evidence does not satisfy us, that the District Judge erred. It is therefore ordered that the judgment be affirmed, with costs. Source:Sarah's Journal archive

When Harrwitz resigned the match against Morphy, claiming ill health, Morphy didn't want to accept the stakes. But because by not accepting them, there would be a question about what the result of of the match really was, affecting those who had side-bets, Morphy finally accepted the £295, but put the money in escrow. This money he sent to Anderssen to defray his expenses traveling to Paris. The Morphy- Anderssen match was played without stakes. When Anderssen arrived on Wednesday, Paul was still confined to bed and as a result, Anderssen wanted to postpone, even cancel, the match. But Morphy wouldn't hear of it and the match was set to commence on the following Monday with the first person to win seven games declared the winner. Since Anderssen had never been to Paris, Edge showed him around and, while they visited some sites such as the Louvre, Anderssen gravitated toward to Café de la Régence where he met his old nemesis, Harrwitz, who was also originally from Breslau. They got into a friendly argument over who had won the most games between them in the past and decided to settle it over the board. The result of their six games was Anderssen 3, Harrwitz 1 and 2 draws. The match was to begin on Monday at 12:00 noon in a special room at Morphy's hotel, the Breteuil at 1 Rue du Dauphin. A few blocks away the crowd was so large that three boards were set up at the Café de la Régence so everyone could see and the moves were carried by messenger every half hour. The only ones present in the room itself were Eugène Lequesne, Saint Amant, Jules Arnous De Rivière, Jean Prèti, Paul Journoud (1821-1882, edited La Régence, La Nouvelle Régence, Le Palemède and Le Sphinx), Carlini, Frederick Edge, Jas. Mortimer and Dr. Johnson (New York Times correspondent). Anderssen arrived on time but Morphy was late: Prof. Anderssen arrived precisely 12 o'clock, in the company of messrs. Prèti and Carlini. Mr. Morphy who had not yet risen from bed after his late disposition, did not appear for a half an hour and when he did join the party, looked so pale and feeble that, it seemed he was risking too much in undertaking the task he had before him. However, he declared his head was alright, and rapidly shaking hands with his adversary and the party present, he stepped at once to the board, seized a black and white pawn, changed them under the table, and held out his hand for the Professor to make a choice. Morphy won the move, and the game commenced at once with the Evan's Gambit. - Dr. Johnson Dr. Johnson also observed the two contestants and gave the following description: ...Nothing could be more unlike than than the physique of the two players. Mr. Morphy is a frail, small boy, with a fine face and head, and a modest, almost timid, air. Prof. Anderssen, on the contrary, is a tall man, slim, about fifty years of age, with a small, bald head, a slight stoop in the shoulders, lively black eyes, a clean-shaven face, and a decidedly German cast of features. He is a quiet, gentlemanly man, with a sympathetic expression of the face, which immediately predisposes in his favor... The match began Dec. 20 and ended on Dec. 28. Morphy won with 7 wins, 2 losses, and 2 draws. After each game, Anderssen would walk over the the Café de la Régence and telegraph the game score to Berlin and Leipzig for the benefit of the German chess fans. After Morphy lost the first game offering the Evan's Gambit, he remarked to Edge that the game "proved to him that the Evans is indubitably a lost game for the first player, if the defense be carefully played; inasmuch as the former can never recover the gambit pawn, and the position supposed to be acquired at the outset, cannot be maintained." (yet, of about 80+ Evan's Gambits he played, Morphy only lost 2 playing even and a just a few at Rook and Knight odds) As good an impression that Morphy made on Anderssen, Anderssen in turn made an equally good impression on all those he met. According to Edge: "I have never seen a nobler-hearted gentleman than Herr Anderssen. He would sit at the board, examining the frightful positions into which Morphy had forced him until his whole face was radiant with admiration of his antagonist's strategy, and, positively laughing outright, he would commence resetting the pieces for another game, without a remark. I never heard him make a single observation to Morphy complimentary of his skill; but, to others, he was loud in his admiration of the young American. He said to me - 'I win my games in seventy moves, but Mr. Morphy wins his in twenty, but it is only natural..." Anderssen's own observations about Morphy according to Edge: "On the morning previous to his departure he (Anderssen) said in my hearing: - "I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake (Morphy, present, here quietly smiled); but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost." You can find the game #9 here: http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/1858morphy-vs-anderssen from Shara's Journal Archive game 1 game 2 game 3 game 4 game 5 game 6 game 7 game 8 game 9 game 10 game 11 Paul Morphy 0 draw 1 1 1 1 1 draw 1 0 1 7 Adolf Anderssen 1 draw 0 0 0 0 0 draw 0 1 0 2 Opening Evan's Gambit Ruy Lopez Ruy Lopez Ruy Lopez Center Counter Anderssen's Opening Center Counter Anderssen's Opening Sicilian Defense Anderssen's Opening French Defense Player with white Morphy Anderssen Morphy Anderssen Morphy Anderssen Morphy Anderssen Morphy Anderssen Morphy Time 7 hrs. 5 hrs. 2 hrs. 4 hrs. 5 hrs 8 hrs. 2-3 hrs. 4 hrs. 30 mins. 6 hrs. 4 hrs.

I think so. I have to agree with this! Bobby Fischer said: 'A popularly held theory about Paul Morphy is that if he returned to the Chess World today and played our best contemporary players, he would come out the loser. Nothing is further from the Truth. In a set match, Morphy would beat anybody alive today!'

I have published this game at the articles,but of course has also a place here at this group!Is one of my Morphy's favorite games.It's title at chessgames.com is "Smother of Invention".Enjoy!

Morphy as black defends himself and then attacks!

Another game,this time Morphy needed 20 moves to victory..

An article from an old Harper’s Weekly newspaper.It portrays Paul Morphy as “Jack the Giant-Killer” and gives a spoof on his adventures in Europe in 1858. Fair warning, fans of Staunton may not enjoy the article.. SOURCE: Harper’s Weekly - December 25th, 1858

During Paul Morphy’s famous European adventures in 1858, he made several stops at the infamous Cafe de la Regence in Paris, France. The cafe had always been an important centerpiece in chess history, as most of the previous greats had played there at one time or another. Francois-Andre Danican Philidor, Legall de Kremeur, and Adolf Anderssen are just a few names to play at the famous cafe. It has also been documented that Benjamin Franklin, a noted chess enthusiast, played there on occasion while serving as American ambassador to France during the Revolutionary War. One of Morphy’s encounters at the cafe involved him playing eight of the strong cafe regulars in a blindfold simul in the presence of approximately 250 chess fans. After ten hours of play, Morphy had amazingly won six games, drawn two, and lost zero.It was reported that Morphy never took a break and did not even appear fatigued at the conclusion of play. One of his games from this event is presented below, as annotated by Johann Jakob Lowenthal. The above comments from RookHouse

Annotations by Lowenthal