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	Paul Morphy Biography - Plus Animated Games
		Paul Morphy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to a wealthy and distinguished family.
		Morphy was now hailed as the chess champion of the United States, and such was his strength of play that many urged him to test his skill abroad.
		Morphy would win his won games, but if he made an error, it was still a long, hard process trying to beat him, and more likely than not the game would still go to him in the end.
	www.bobby-fischer.net /paul_morphy.htm (2651 words)

	Paul Morphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 - July 10, 1884), was an American chess champion and eccentric genius.
		In Paris Morphy suffered from a bout of influenza and had a high fever; he was treated with leeches, resulting in significant blood loss.
		Paul Morphy died of a stroke at the age of 47.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/p/pa/paul_morphy.html (367 words)

	Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Paul Morphy (1837-1884), is called the " pride and sorrow of chess." He became the best player in the world and could have become recognized the first true world champion, but he retired at the peak of his powers after an active career of only two years.
		Paul Morphy was a life-long resident of New Orleans.
		Morphy's style of play was as spectacular as his results; in many of his games, he won by brilliant sacrifices that still amaze and entertain players today.
	www.chessmuseum.org /bio_morphy_popup.htm (360 words)

	Bill Wall's Chess Master Profiles - Morphy
		Paul Morphy was born on June 22, 1837 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
		Morphy strongly opposed being described this way, and he was so angry, that Colonel Mead became overwelmed by confusion, and felt so dishonored by his misfortune, that he decided no longer to participate in the Morphy celebration.
		Morphy was outraged by being connected with chess, and answered, that his father, judge at the surpreme court of Louisiana, Mr.
	www.geocities.com /siliconvalley/lab/7378/morphy.htm (948 words)

	Paul Morphy - Chesspedia, the free chess encyclopedia Pushedpawn.org
		Morphy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to a wealthy and distinguished family.
		Morphy grew up in an atmosphere of genteel civility and culture where chess and music were the typical highlights of a Sunday home gathering.
		Morphy was found dead in his bathtub on the afternoon of July 10, 1884 by his mother.
	pushedpawn.org /test6/Paul_Morphy.htm (3183 words)

	Biography of Paul Morphy
		Paul Charles Morphy was born on June 22, 1837 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
		Morphy was now the chess champion of the United States, and such was his strength of play that many urged him to test his skill abroad.
		Prior to his getting home, Morphy had issued an open challenge to anyone in the world to play a match where he would give odds of pawn and move (in a match between two evenly matched Masters, a pawn advantage is considered a winning advantage); and to play for any amount whatsoever.
	www.supreme-chess.com /famous-chess-players/paul-morphy.html (1420 words)

	Morphy Paul - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Morphy, Paul (1837-1884), American chess player, whose innovations during a brief but brilliant career added new dimensions to the game.
		Paul I (of Russia) (1754-1801), Emperor of Russia (1796-1801).
		Paul was born in St Petersburg, the son of Catherine II (The Great) and Peter III....
	au.encarta.msn.com /Morphy_Paul.html (103 words)

	Paul Cherles Morphy (1837-1884)
		Born to a well-to-do family in New Orleans, Paul Morphy became quite a strong player (thanks largely to the fact that his father – a Judge who also served in the House of Representatives from 1825-1829 – was an avid chess fan) by the age of eight.
		Paul wasn’t only skilled at chess, he also excelled in his academic pursuits and, by the tender age of nineteen, he had earned his law degree and admission to the bar (he had memorized the entire Civil code of Louisiana!).
		Morphy was blessed with an exceptionally quick sight of the board, and he rarely took more than a few minutes on any single move.
	www.jeremysilman.com /chess_history/grt_plyr_pc_morphy.html (1962 words)

	Paul Morphy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Morphy was now hailed as the chess champion of the United States, and such was his strength of play that many urged him to test his skill in Europe.
		Morphy reportedly declared that he would play no more matches with anyone unless he was giving odds of pawn and move (in a match between two evenly matched Masters, a pawn advantage is considered a winning advantage).
		Morphy passed away at the age of forty-seven on the afternoon of July 10, 1884.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Morphy (3214 words)

	Paul Charles Morphy - Encyclopedia.com
		Not only was Morphy possessed of a phenomenal memory, which he demonstrated in astounding feats of simultaneous blindfold play, but his style of play was in direct contrast to that of his time.
		He was a master of the open game, in which center pawns are exchanged, open files are utilized, and rapid development of the pieces is demanded.
		In this same year, Morphy entered Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala., where he developed his skill as a logician and pursued his interests in law and language.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Morphy-P.html (719 words)

	Paul Morphy
		Paul Charles Morphy was born on June 22, 1837 in the city of New Orleans.
		Paul Morphy went to New York to play in the first American Chess Congress (the top 16 players in America were invited.) Morphy easily defeated them all and won the event.
		Morphy was outraged by being connected with Chess, and answered, that his father, judge at the supreme court of Louisiana, Mr.
	www.chess-poster.com /great_players/morphy.htm (1147 words)

	US Chess Hall of Fame - Inductee Biography
		Paul Morphy (1837-1884), is called the " pride and sorrow of chess." He became the best player in the world and could have become recognized the first true world champion, but he retired at the peak of his powers after an active career of only two years.
		Paul Morphy was a life-long resident of New Orleans.
		Morphy's style of play was as spectacular as his results; in many of his games, he won by brilliant sacrifices that still amaze and entertain players today.
	www.excaliburelectronics.com /bio_morphy.html (368 words)

	Chess Legends - Paul Morphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Morphy internally got crushed at this and he returned immediately to America and endeavoured to practice law but found no recognition in that field.
		Morphy died in New Orleans in July, 1884 at the age of 47.
		Morphy understanding of the principles of development and his strategy in general was far superior to his contemporaries.
	www.chathurangam.com /Legends (763 words)

	Gambit Weekly : Paul Morphy's Shaky Shadow : October 3, 2006
		Born in 1837, Morphy was only 8 years old when his father, a state attorney general and supreme court judge, took him to watch the country's first chess championship, which was held in New Orleans.
		The written records of Morphy's games are still analyzed -- a new book by international grandmaster Valeri Beim, Paul Morphy: A Modern Perspective, came out this summer -- and chess experts love to debate whether or not he could have defeated today's top players.
		In 1884, Morphy died at the age of 47.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /dispatch/2006-10-03/cover_story2.php (409 words)

	Chessville - Annotated Game - Louis Paulsen vs Paul Morphy, USA 1857 - Annotated for the Novice and beginning ...
		Paul Morphy was born on 22nd June 1837 in New Orleans.
		Morphy internally got crushed at this and he returned immediately to America and endeavored to practice law but found no recognition in that field.
		Morphy's understanding of the principles of development and his strategy in general was far superior to his contemporaries.
	www.chessville.com /instruction/Annotated_Games/Paulsen-Morphy.htm (972 words)

	The full Morphy
		In a separate gamefile, pmorphy.pgn, are Morphy's 59 games from what we would consider serious events now: the tournament in New York (1857) and the matches against Löwenthal, Harrwitz, Anderssen (1858) and Mongredien (1859).
		Morphy's combined score in these games was +42 =9 -8.
		Morphy was better than Anderssen, who held his own against Steinitz - who won games against Lasker when he was almost 60, and Lasker not yet 30.
	www.xs4all.nl /~timkr/ChessTutor/morphy.htm (350 words)

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		To better judge Ward's modern day coverage, a comparison was made with the other Morphy book of the 1990s, Macon Shibut's "Paul Morphy and the Evolution of Chess Theory", published in 1993.
		As flattered as this writer might be to think that a distant relative may have played a couple of games against the great Morphy, the preferred spelling of that Budzinski (at least until now) has always been with a "y", not an "I", at the end.
		Unfortunately, "The Genius of Paul Morphy" is one of those books that seems to raise more questions than it answers.
	www.chesscafe.com /text/morph.txt (920 words)

	Mark Lowery's Exciting World of Chess- Morphy's Opera Game
		Paul Morphy, perhaps the first great American player and a child prodigy, lived in the 19th century and died at the young age of 47.
		Morphy's technique in winning won positions and drawing lost positions has also been praised, but his defining edge over the competition was an understanding of the importance of time in chess.
		The Morphy legend had taken root in his own time, despite his own misgivings that he was but an amateur (Anderssen also considered himself to be an amateur and not a professional!).
	www.markalowery.net /Chess/Morphy_Opera/morphy_opera.html (1278 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / PAUL MORPHY, Chess Prodigy
		Morphy’s father, who was a judge on the supreme court of Louisiana, allowed his son to play only on Sundays or, later, during school vacations.
		Morphy’s fans in New Orleans asked Howard Staunton, the champion of Créât Britain and a literary scholar, to visit New Orleans for a ten-thousand-dollar match with their hero.
		Morphy’s crowning achievement came when Adolf Anderssen, the unofficial world champion (there was no official title until later in the century), arrived from Germany to play him.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1972/5/1972_5_48.shtml (1233 words)

	Free Online Chess
		Morphy always plays, not merely the best, but the VERY best move; and if we play the move only approximately correct, we are sure to lose.
		From that time forth, the name of Paul Morphy was noised abroad in the chess circles of America with great commendation; few were to be found bold enough to cope with him, and when they did so, it was to meet with unvaried defeat.
		Morphy was victorious over all who opposed him, in London, and on the Continent it was the same.
	www.chessmaniac.com /2006/01/unrivaled-performances-by-paul-morphy.php (827 words)

	morphy
		One reason why Morphy was so much better than his contemporaries was that he understood better than they the importance of quick development.
		Morphy's most memorable games, in the main those where he is playing vastly inferior opponents, have a certain charm.
		Morphy was an extraordinary player in an age of primitives.
	felixstowechess.tripod.com /morphy.htm (4260 words)

	The Best Chess Player Ever: How Paul Morphy Was Cheated Out of the World Chess Championship - Thomas Hemphill
		Instead, it was probably Paul Morphy (1837--1884), "the greatest chess genius in history" then and even now, according to recent world chess champion Bobby Fischer.
		Morphy began as a child prodigy, and as a young man his influence was so widespread that baseball clubs, cigars, and a top chess opponent's daughter were named after him.
		Rumors about Morphy, called the "pride and sorrow of chess," have risen due to poor research from a century ago.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/2002/september/Sa22547.htm (342 words)

	Paul Charles Morphy
		Paul was graduated at St. Joseph's college, Spring Hill, Alabama, in 1824, studied law, and was admitted to the New Orleans bar in 1858.
		In June, 1858, Morphy sailed for Europe for the purpose of meeting Staunton, the chess champion.
		On leaving Paris in April, Morphy was given a farewell banquet, at which his bust was crowned with laurel by the French players.
	www.famousamericans.net /paulcharlesmorphy (734 words)

	jaced.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Next to the globally popular American Bobby Fischer, the greatest chess player that ever lived is probably Paul Morphy from New Orleans.
		Morphy then "retired" in 1859, in his twenties, only two years after his meteoric rise to chess fame, because a young woman rebuffed his advances "because he was only a chess player"!!
		But I think he was more pride than sorrow, because of his introduction to chess theory of rapid development of pieces, and he almost always placed his pieces on the correct squares.
	dev.jaced.com:8080 /htm/c/cbios/cbios_morphy.htm (237 words)

	The chess games of Paul Morphy
		Paul Charles Morphy was born on June 22, 1837 in New Orleans.
		Morphy said it should never be so considered, but merely as a recreation.
		Paul Morphy arrived in New York City on October 4, 1857 and registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel.
	www.chessgames.com /perl/chessplayer?pid=16002 (2186 words)

	Books about Paul Morphy
		Paul Morphy (1837-1884) was the greatest player of his time, and hailed as the World chess champion after defeating the German champion Adolf Anderssen.
		Morphy was said to be extremely popular, an excellent sportsman, polite, modest, and well-dressed.
		Paul Morphy was found dead in his bathtub on July 10, 1884.
	www.chess-strategy-online.com /books/Paul-Morphy (371 words)

	Paul Morphy A Modern Perspective
		Beim writes that his initial impression of Morphy was that of a player who developed his pieces rapidly and had great combinative skills.
		PAUL MORPHY: A MODERN PERSPECTIVE examines approximately 60 of Morphy’s most important games to make the claim that Morphy was the first modern.
		Reinfeld and Soltis, in MORPHY CHESS MASTERPIECES, cite this game as evidence that Morphy was a modern player and that this was inspiration for Garcia-Fischer, Havana (ol) 1966, often given as the first game to employ this plan.
	www.jeremysilman.com /book_reviews_jd/jd_morphy_a_modern_perspective.html (587 words)

	Workshop - New ChessBase CDs: "Paul Morphy" and "English opening"
		Paul Morphy has captured the imaginations of chessplayers (especially Americans) for over a century and a half.
		On the other hand, looking at Morphy's play in light of later chess developments does allow a certain contextual framework which wouldn't be available if we were to look at his play only from the standpoint of traditional mid-nineteenth century tactics.
		I've read other works which analyze Morphy's chessplaying and I will say that I read nothing in the overall conclusions that startled me. But the finer points on the CD are certainly new, refreshing, and enlightening.
	www.chessbase.com /workshop2.asp?id=1073 (1784 words)

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