Little Paul Morphy
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Thanks for the post. It's always very interesting looking back. Chess is truly fascinating and so are the characters from the past. An era of books , study and talent.
Rocking the Hitler mustache in 1954?
Nov 28, 2016
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It's a shame that the great original Paul Morphy had no descendants, since he never married. Or even had a romance.
batgirl wrote:
Descendants are overrated anyway.
Tell that to any royal house.
batgirl wrote:
Royalty is equally overrated.
With the exception of the new king of Thailand, of course. Such a badass
nice archival photos
I always thought Kashdan resembled and even sounded like Groucho -- the episode of You Bet Your Life with Kashdan is interesting but Groucho did not comment on this resemblance.
cool
1950
Alexander Bisno was a Los Angeles real estate developer/investment broker and chess nut. At one time or other he was president of the Manhattan Chess Club and an official of both th USCF and the American Chess Foundation. He was also an occasional chess angel who even collaborated with Jackie Piatigorsky to try to bring off the ill-fated Fischer-Reshevsky match. In 1955, along with Louis Rubin and Alf Childs, Bisno built and owned 21% of the Moulin Rouge, the first integrated casino in Las Vegas. The boxer Joe Louis is thought to have been a silent partner.
In 1954 Bisno captained the American chess team in the US vs USSR match held in NYC. During that match, his son was his constant companion and got to know all the players. According to "Chess Review":
When Al Bisno asked his young son, Paul Morphy Bisno, whom he want to win, he got an answer he least expected: 'My friend Kotov;' it seems the Russian grandmaster and the junior Bisno had become real pals during the course of the match!
Al Bisno and Isaac Kashdan, 1954
Al Bisno was born on January 15, 1897 and died on July 13, 1987 .
Paul Morphy Bisno was born March 16, 1948 and died on June 28, 2011.
Jim Cross, across from Paul Morphy Bisno in the initial photo, was one of Herman Steiner's protegees. When Steiner died suddenly of a heart attack in 1955, Cross, a California State Champion, abandoned chess.