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En passant (French: ɑ̃ paˈsɑ̃, lit. In passing) is a move in chess. It is a special pawn capture that can only occur immediately after a pawn makes a move of two squares from its starting square, and it could have been captured by an enemy pawn had it advanced only one square. How are your music skills? Whether you can play many of Beethoven's greatest compositions or have never been anywhere near a musical instrument, you’ll love our addictive and educational piano games.You'll get to play everything from classical music to pop hits. I am currently completing my Masters in Musicology dissertation, which is about both chess and music. I’m making a game of sound. I will let you know when my results are in. Perhaps you can play a game of chess by ear and enhance pattern recognition in order to become a chess grandmaster. Kind regards, Elizabeth. Along with golf, I’ve recently picked up playing chess.And like any new interest, I’m a huge proponent of immersing myself in the topic by reading books, subscribing to services to learn from others’ experience, and of course, practicing regularly by playing friends online. But I cannot underscore enough, the power of “reading.” Some will say “experience” is the best teacher.

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Paul Morphy

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Number of games in database: 461
Years covered: 1848 to 1869
Overall record: +173 -24 =17 (84.8%)*
* Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database.247 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.
MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
Evans Gambit(43)
King's Gambit Accepted(25)
Sicilian(14)
Philidor's Defense(13)
C41
King's Gambit Declined(13)
King's Pawn Game(9)
With the Black pieces:
King's Gambit Accepted(21)
Ruy Lopez(15)
Evans Gambit(14)
Giuoco Piano(10)
Philidor's Defense(7)
C41
Dutch Defense(4)
A84

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NOTABLE GAMES:[what is this?]
Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 1-0
Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 0-1
Bird vs Morphy, 1858 0-1
Morphy vs Le Carpentier, 1849 1-0
Morphy vs Schrufer, 1859 1-0
J Schulten vs Morphy, 1857 0-1
Morphy vs Anderssen, 1858 1-0
Morphy vs A Morphy, 1850 1-0
N Marache vs Morphy, 1857 0-1
Morphy vs Anderssen, 1858 1-0
NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS:[what is this?]
Morphy - Harrwitz (1858)
1st American Chess Congress (1857)
Morphy - Loewenthal (1858)
Morphy - Mongredien (1859)
Anderssen - Morphy (1858)

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GAMES ANNOTATED BY MORPHY:[what is this?]
La Bourdonnais vs McDonnell, 1834
La Bourdonnais vs McDonnell, 1834
La Bourdonnais vs McDonnell, 1834
McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834
McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834
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PAUL MORPHY
(born Jun-22-1837, died Jul-10-1884, 47 years old) United States of America

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Paul Charles Morphy was born in New Orleans. He was the son of a successful lawyer and judge Alonzo Morphy. His uncle, Ernest Morphy, claims that no one formally taught Morphy how to play chess, but rather that he learned the rules by observing games between himself and Alonzo. When Morphy was only 12 years old, Johann Jacob Loewenthal visited New Orleans and at the behest of his father, agreed to play a casual match with the prodigy. Young Paul won 2½ to ½.

In 1857 Morphy won the First American Chess Congress with a dominating performance http://graeme.50webs.com/chesschamp... . This success was followed by a European trip where he met and triumphed over most of the prominent masters of the period, namely Adolf Anderssen whom he defeated +7 -2 =2 (see Anderssen - Morphy (1858)), Loewenthal in Morphy - Loewenthal (1858) and Daniel Harrwitz in Morphy - Harrwitz (1858). Upon returning to America, he announced his retirement from chess.

Although the official title of World Champion did not exist in his time, Morphy was and is widely regarded as the strongest player of his day. Even today his games are studied for their principles of open lines and quick development, and his influence on the modern game is undeniable. Mikhail Botvinnik wrote of his influence: 'His mastery of open positions was so vast that little new has been learned about such positions after him.'

User: jessicafischerqueen 's YouTube documentary of Paul Morphy: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Lucas Anderson's YouTube video 'The Life and Chess of Paul Morphy': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy6...

Unpublished manuscript of the 'The First and Last Days of Paul Morphy', written by his friend and neighbor Constant Beauvais: https://web.archive.org/web/2017103...

Notes: Paul also played team chess with Morphy / Barnes and Morphy / Mongredien, and edited a chess column in the New York Ledger.

Wikipedia article: Paul Morphy

Last updated: 2019-02-18 16:57:41

page 1 of 19; games 1-25 of 461
GameResultMovesYearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Morphy vs NN1-0191848New OrleansC20 King's Pawn Game
2. Morphy vs A Morphy1-0311848New OrleansC23 Bishop's Opening
3. Morphy vs A Morphy1-0181848New OrleansC33 King's Gambit Accepted
4. J McConnell vs Morphy0-1231849New OrleansC38 King's Gambit Accepted
5. Morphy vs E Morphy1-0201849New OrleansC53 Giuoco Piano
6. Morphy vs E Rousseau1-0171849New OrleansC39 King's Gambit Accepted
7. Morphy vs A Morphy1-0151849New Orleans mC51 Evans Gambit
8. Morphy vs A Morphy1-0211849New OrleansC51 Evans Gambit
9. Morphy vs J McConnell1-0231849New OrleansC40 King's Knight Opening
10. Morphy vs J McConnell1-0111849New Orleans cgC35 King's Gambit Accepted, Cunningham
11. Morphy vs A Morphy1-0461849New OrleansC51 Evans Gambit
12. Morphy vs J McConnell1-0291849New OrleansC39 King's Gambit Accepted
13. Morphy vs NN1-0201849New Orleans cgC39 King's Gambit Accepted
14. Morphy vs Le Carpentier1-0131849New Orleans000 Chess variants
15. Morphy vs E Rousseau1-0231849New OrleansC50 Giuoco Piano
16. Morphy vs A Morphy1-0181850New Orleans ?000 Chess variants
17. Morphy vs NN1-0181850?000 Chess variants
18. NN vs Morphy0-1241850New OrleansC65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense
19. J McConnell vs Morphy0-1141850New OrleansC02 French, Advance
20. J McConnell vs Morphy0-1251850New OrleansC52 Evans Gambit
21. Morphy vs NN1-0141850casualC44 King's Pawn Game
22. Morphy vs Loewenthal1-0491850Casual GameB21 Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4
23. Morphy vs Loewenthal1-0551850Casual GameC42 Petrov Defense
24. E Morphy vs Morphy½-½291854New OrleansC51 Evans Gambit
25. Morphy vs Maurian½-½461854New Orleans000 Chess variants
page 1 of 19; games 1-25 of 461
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Feb-25-06scrambler: MAY WE NEVER FORGET ~MARTHA~

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

3.The Passenger Pigeon story This is the most Heart breaking and Tragic of all. http://www.wbu.com/chipperwoods/pho...

Feb-25-06scrambler: Here's an even better site for Passenger Pigeons http://www.ulala.org/P_Pigeon/Georg...
Feb-25-06DrKurtPhart: <SBC> Yor most welcm anytime. I never knew of th Royal Street Guild. Stumbled across it lookin fr shops in th house and street of...U know who. on the sunny side of the street :-)The quest goes on la di da di da
Feb-25-06DrKurtPhart: a sunny day in London with Morphy!
http://batgirl.atspace.com/1Morphy_...
Feb-25-06
tamar: <SBC> Adding to the confusion, but also to the interest, there was a second (Norbert) Vincent Rillieux, the son of Vincent,the great grandfather to Degas.

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.

Feb-25-06SBC: <tamar>

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!

Feb-26-06
chancho: I guess this page is no longer like an empty old town, wind howling away and tumbleweeds rolling around. :))
Feb-26-06SBC: <tamar>.

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.

But he had a wonderfully unforgettable description of New Orleans. He said New Orleans is a bipolar city. It's either Dixieland or Blues. There's no in-between.

Feb-26-06SBC: <chancho>

Yes, it's still a ghost town. It's just that sometimes the ghosts are more active than at other times.

Feb-26-06ckr: Boo!

Just keeping with the spirits.

Feb-27-06scrambler: Whilst out walking one day on Canal st. Paul came across a sparrow that had fallen into a hole in a rock. The hole measures three inches in diameter and is three feet deep.

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?

Feb-27-06scrambler: http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/cabildo/...

See the oldest known photograph of Canal st.

Feb-27-06
tamar: <New Orleans is a bipolar city. It's either Dixieland or Blues. There's no in-between.>

Heard this quote on NPR today from a ninth ward resident who lost her house, but still plans to celebrate Mardi Gras. 'You have to be happy, because when you think about it, you start to cry.'

Feb-27-06
tamar: <scrambler> fill the hole slowly with sand?
Feb-27-06DrKurtPhart: Morphy Alert Update. Portsmouth Herald News,NH,USA
...'Noah Sheola is there for the Noah Sheola Productions, pitching another of his original works, this one on Paul Morphy, a 19th century chess champ who went mad.'

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

http://www.photodiary.org/ph_c_4186... a mere ghost town

Feb-28-06scrambler: <tamar> Yeah! how long did it take you?

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

Feb-28-06
Calli: <tamar Yeah! how long did it take you?>

It took him hours to fill up that thing! :->

Feb-28-06
Gypsy: Here is something interesting I found in Jan Kalendovsky's book on Reti:

<... 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'.

Feb-28-06DrKurtPhart: Dixieland or Dixie is a name for the south-eastern portion of the USA; see: U.S. Southern States,Dixie. (Wikipedia)

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)

____________________________________________

*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...

*(eds. notes.)
HAND: [*hav a nice day*)

Feb-28-06Poulsen: <Gypsy><... 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!> ... eh, and what is the point? One could just as well conclude, that Tarrasch played the position better than Anderssen.

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.

That's that - and that's all. He proved nothing.

Feb-28-06
tamar: Euwe highly respected Morphy's play, and put the matter into perspective:

<If the distinguishing feature of a genius is that he is far ahead compared with his epoch, then Morphy was a chess genius in the complete sense of the word.>

Feb-28-06
Gypsy: <Poulsen: ... eh, and what is the point? One could just as well conclude, that Tarrasch played the position better than Anderssen. ...> Well, you could, but it would be a wrong conclusion. You could however argue to some extent that it was Anderssen who defeated Euwe in this game as Euwe stepped into 'a diabolical trap by Anderssen' -- in the words of Reti who used this game to explain the differences between Anderssen and Morphy's style in the 1923 English eddition of 'New Ideas in Chess'.

<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.

--

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.)

Rather than reading too much into my post, take it as that I just ran accross this rather quaint tidbit of chess history by Kalendovsky and translated it for the public consumption here.

Feb-28-06blingice: For my 1000th post, a salute to my favorite chessplayer: Morphy.

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.

bling

Feb-28-06
Calli: <Gypsy> Appreciated the effort! A little story that I can add to my Morphy file. Makes the annotations more interesting.
Mar-01-06ckr: <Gypsy> Nice find and thanks for posting it. Nothing could be closer to an Anderssen-Euwe game and Euwe should have stuck with Morphy's Qd6.
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