Morphy's Chess Masterpieces and Morphy's Games of Chess

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arikthekind

Hi all! I am thinking of getting Morphy's Chess Masterpieces but already have Sergeant's book. Does anybody know if it is still worth getting? I have not seen anything that has what games are posted in Morphy's Chess Masterpieces and the other book has a ton of games in it. I do love Paul Morphy books though, lol, so maybe this is a no-brainer. Any way, thanks!

RussBell

Morphy's Chess Masterpieces by Fred Reinfeld and Andrew Soltis was published in 1974 and is thus probably written in the older, obsolete "Descriptive" notation. Here are pgn's of the 40 games in the book...

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1012990

As an alternative I suggest considering, a more recent book, written in the modern "Algebraic" notation......

A First Book of Morphy by Frisco del Rosario

https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_First_Book_of_Morphy/zW-DI747l5kC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=a+first+book+of+morphy&printsec=frontcover

pgn's of the 69 games in del Rosario's book...

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1049084

arikthekind
RussBell wrote:

Morphy's Chess Masterpieces by Fred Reinfeld and Andrew Soltis was publishied in 1974 and is thus probably written in the older, obsolete "Descriptive" notation.

As an alternative I suggest considering, a more recent book, written in the modern "Algebraic" notation......

A First Book of Morphy by Frisco del Rosario

https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_First_Book_of_Morphy/zW-DI747l5kC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=a+first+book+of+morphy&printsec=frontcover

Thanks! I have that one and Morphy Move by Move. I don't mind descriptive notation... I just wonder how much overlap there might be between the Morphy books. happy.png

RussBell

Note you can check the pgn's (I added/posted links above) of Reinfeld's book vs. del Rosario's book, in order to determine the extent of overlap of the games they contain.