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The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion

The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion

Edge, Frederick Milnes

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Biographies GeneralChessGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1544872259
ISBN13: 9781544872254
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 25 2017
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
I am much indebted, in the following pages, to the kind assistance of that able writer and veteran chess-player, Mr. George Walker, who has furnished me with most of the very interesting and valuable information contained in the fourth chapter of this work. I am likewise under obligations to Herr Löwenthal for many anecdotes relating to chess celebrities of the past, and other information; and also to Mr. George Medley, Honorary Secretary of the London Chess Club, and Mr. Ries, of the Divan. The cuts with which this work is embellished have been engraved by the well-known Brothers Dalziel. The portrait of Paul Morphy, copied from a photograph taken shortly after his arrival in London last year, is an excellent likeness. The portraits of Messrs. Staunton, Boden, Anderssen, and Löwenthal, are copies of photographs, for which they sat at the Manchester Meeting, in 1857. The originals of Messrs. Saint Amant and Harrwitz are admirably executed lithographs of those gentlemen, taken about four years ago, and that of Mr. Mongredieu is copied from a photograph kindly lent for the purpose. I am under great obligations to Mr. Lewis, who came to London expressly to sit for his likeness; and I feel assured that my readers will value this very form and feature of an amateur who was famous before Labourdonnais was known outside the Régence; and whose works are found in every chess-player's library.

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