Chessgames.com is there any way you could colorize the Morphy image shown above what color was Morphy's eye's lips, suit etc. Can you colorize him just for a week or 2.

I have a good friend who's an artist he's been drawing and painting since the early 70's. We've been toying with the idea of creating some high quality Morphy paintings of Morphy playing various opponents including his father,Uncle. And other famous encounters. I'm particularly interested in a possible age regression painting of Morphy! Imagine images of Morphy as a kid using age regression!

We figure in a about a year's time we could have 3 or 4 high quality paintings representing M his opponents and his surroundings as close as possible.

Also another idea why hasn't <The American Experience Documentary program> tapped into these three very unique American experiences :

1. The Paul Morphy story: America's First great Chess Champion.

2. The Bobby Fischer Story. Yeah I know...I know, but he's still One of America's great experiences

The second Vincent was raised in the Rillieux/Morphy house, and had children with a 'woman of color' named Constance Vivant.

<Vivant belonged to the Cheval family,free blacks who had extensive holdings in land and rental properties.>

This connection could be another source of Germain Musson's acquisition of property near the Morphy house. He was only 22 when he arrived from Saint Domingue, and this seems his big real estate deal.

When he married into the Rillieux family, he gained access to several branches of it who held land, not just the older Vincent.

I've always said you can never have too many <Vincent Rillieux>s.

<Constance Vivant> I love that name. I wonder if she was a bonne Vivant or a mauvaise Vivant?

How complicated something one would think should be simple has become.

Thanks!

Speaking of New Orleans...

For the record and as an explanation, I'm bipolar.

I read an article in the Wall Street Journal the other day by a writer whose point was that New Orleans was no place to go to write. Many famous authors had spent time in New Orleans, particularly in Vieux Carré, and each one of them spent more time in bars and in reveling than in writing.

Just keeping with the spirits.

Due to the depth of the hole, the sparrow cannot be reached by Pauls small hands. Paul cannot use sticks or canes, because he could hurt the bird. How can Paul free the bird without causing it any harm?

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/... (nr middle)http://www.playersring.org/2005_200... 'the mereness of you'

Diego Morphy was this Slave buyer a relative Of Paul Morphy. Type Morphy in the Masters box.

<... Euwe and Tarrasch also played in Haague. It was a tournament possibly unlike any other in the history of chess. Players were given positions from classic chess games and task to 'complete' tense positions with White- and with Black pieces. Thus it transpired, for instance, that Morphy played Black in Anderssen vs Morphy, 1858 from the critical position after the 19th move of White [19.Ne5...], much better in 1858 than Euwe against Tarrasch in 1922! ...> Jan Kalendovsky: 'Richard Reti, A Chess Thinker'.

Dixieland music is a style of jazz. Dixieland developed in New Orleans, Louisiana at the start of the 20th century, and spread to Chicago, Illinois and New York City, New York by New Orleans bands in the 1910s, and was, for a period, quite popular among the general public. It is often considered the first true type of jazz, and was the first music referred to by the term jazz (before 1917 often spelled jass.)

*(Reputedly from the perfume of choice used by 'the ladies of the night' of the time, jasmine. Ultimately uplifting. Recommended.)

The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression. The form evolved in the United States in the communities of former African slaves from spirituals, praise songs, field hollers, shouts, and chants. The use of blue notes and the prominence of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative of the blues' West African pedigree. The blues has been a major influence on later American and Western popular music, finding expression in ragtime, jazz,bluegrass,rhythm and blues,rock and roll,hip-hop, and country music, as well as conventional pop songs.

The phrase the blues is a synonym for having a fit of the 'blue devils', meaning low spirits, depression and sadness.

*(Good for the spirit. Ultimately uplifting. Recommended)

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*Morphy's improvised advanced jazz/blues chess solos. A form of chess playing incorporating perfect symphonic harmony and inspiration, with apparent free-form jazzstyle placing of sparkling notes (chesspieces) on a board, at unusual moments genius in time. (Gaining of tempos, creation of space and time, etc.)Selected Morphy solos for advanced listening. Recommended for achieving a feeling of well-being and peace with mankind, and advanced spatial relationship. : http://batgirl.atspace.com/sacs.html

[Also recommended. See games of John Lee Hooker, Charlie 'Bird' Parker, Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Howlin' Wolf.]

http://batgirl.atspace.com/Harpers_...
http://batgirl.atspace.com/Galaxy_0...

It's very amusing to see these comparisons of Morphy with more contemporay players - often they are followed with claims like 'If Morphy lived today, he would be a super-GM' - or some similar claim lacking foundation.

If Morphy at his prime were to play against Euwe at his prime, I have little doubt that Euwe would simply crush Morphy. But thats just my opinion.

Generally I think, that Morphy's importance to chess - and his actual playing strenght - is very overrated by many. His brilliant victories were for the vast majority won against weak opposition.

He played 40 serious games against the strongest opposition, that could be found at the time, and he scored about 70 % - enough to claim him the strongest player in the world around 1857 - 1859.

<Generally I think, that Morphy's importance to chess - and his actual playing strenght - is very overrated by many. His brilliant victories were for the vast majority won against weak opposition.

He played 40 serious games against the strongest opposition, that could be found at the time, and he scored about 70 % - enough to claim him the strongest player in the world around 1857 - 1859.>

On this issue, I can not do better that to quote one of the all-time greats: <People knock down Morphy because his oponents were weak. Well yes, but he played them like a genius!> David Bronstein.

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In objective sense, I am one of those who believe that Steinitz in 1880s was already a discernably stronger player than Morphy in 1857-58. (Though that sais nothing about Morphy's impact on the game, nor about his potential to improve.)

My favorites:
Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857
Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858
Morphy vs E Rousseau, 1849
Morphy vs J McConnell, 1849
Morphy vs E Morphy, 1849
J McConnell vs Morphy, 1849

Bravo for your awesome games and drawing me into chess.