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- Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 – July 10, 1884) was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master.
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Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 – July 10, 1884) was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master. A prodigy, Morphy emerged onto the chess scene in 1857 by convincingly winning the First American Chess Congress, winning each match by a large margin.
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Paul Morphy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in the United States on June 22, 1837. A prodigy, he learned to play chess simply from watching. Morphy’s first encounter with a master player, and indeed his only one before adulthood, came against the Hungarian Johann Lowenthal, who was visiting New Orleans in 1850. Morphy won at least twice in three...
Morphy’s first big breakthrough came in the 1857 American Chess Congress, a 16-player knockout tournament. He won nine out of ten games against a draw in the first three rounds to breeze into the final, where he faced the German-born Louis Paulsen. Paulsen had also not lost a game in the first three rounds, but he was no match for Morphy. Even thou...
Much of Morphy’s brilliance showed against weaker players--one might say amateurs, but for all his success Morphy never pursued chess professionally himself. Few players of his time did. And for all the matches Morphy played against top players, no game of his is more famous than the one against two continental European aristocrats during an opera ...
Morphy’s chess career, if defined by regular competitive play against master-level opponents, effectively lasted less than two years: from the American Chess Congress in October 1857 to his return from Europe in May 1859. What happened? Essentially, he got bored. He claimed he would begin only playing matches where he would give his opponent “pawn ...
Richard Reti, in his Modern Ideas in Chessfrom 1929, stated that Morphy “had a wonderful talent for combinations” and declared him “the first positional player.” Reti attributed to Morphy the realization that development is of utmost importance in open positions. Morphy generally continues to receive such credit to this day. Bobby Fischer said in 1...
Paul Murphy (born 13 April 1983) is an Irish People Before Profit–Solidarity politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-West constituency since the 2014 Dublin South-West by-election. [2]
Oct 10, 2014 · Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the nitrates derogation overwhelmingly benefits a wealthier minority of intensive farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Jun 20, 2017 · Mr Murphy is one of six men facing charges that they falsely imprisoned the then Labour Party leader, Joan Burton, and her then adviser, Karen O’Connell, on Fortunestown Road, Jobstown, Dublin,...
May 12, 2023 · Paul Murphy, one of 11 children, grew up in Seán McDermott Street in Dublin’s north inner city until he was aged 12 after which he was reared by his grandmother.
