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Just One Paul Morphy.

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The Buffalo Times Buffalo, New York Sunday, March 26, 1911 - Page 28 — Just One Paul Morphy. — After beating the American chess champion, Marshall, and vanquishing many of the cleverest chess-players in the country, a young Cuban, Capablanca, has won the first place in the international chess tournament at San Sebastian, Spain. They are calling Capablanca a second Paul Morphy. They called Harry Pillsbury that, when he won the Hastings tournament sixteen years ago. They called Marshall that too. There has scarcely been a brilliant chess player in the last fifty years whom admirers have not dubbed “another Morphy.” To nickname a man “Paul Morphy” is, from a chess player's standpoint, the highest compliment that can be paid him.
In 1857, '58 and '59, Paul Morphy set the chess world in a furore never equaled before or since Morphy was a youthful Louisianian of good family, excellent education and charming manners. He regarded chess as a recreation, was never a grubbing student of books on the game, and was not a professional chess-player. But he bowled over the strongest chess experts in America and Europe like nine-pins. To describe the career of this meteoric phenomenon would be to recount a series of chess victories the like of which was never beheld on this planet. From that day to this, the chess fraternity have cherished the hope that sometime a new Paul Morphy would illuminate the chess horizon. But every time this hope has been dashed. And here is the most singular fact of the business: Paul Morphy, the chess-player, was probably the closest approximation to undisputed supreme genius in a given line that the world has ever seen. True, his specialty was only a game. But Shakespeare was not so assuredly the greatest poet, Raphael not so definitely the noblest of painters, Beethoven not so indubitably the divinity of musicians. Newton not so certainly the first of scientists, Phidias no so surely the chief of sculptors, Napoleon not so undoubtedly the mightiest of soldiers, as Paul Morphy was the greatest of chess players.
The universal opinion about Morphy was bluntly expressed in a letter of a New York chess veteran, written about world chess-champion Steinitz when he was at the height of his fame: “I don't think Steinitz could stand up before Morphy.”
So when the uninitiated read in the newspapers that Capablanca is a second Paul Morphy, they will do well not to believe it, for the writer himself doesn't believe it, neither does Capablanca. It is just a pleasant conventionality—a graceful compliment—that is all.
Chess has developed many intellectual wonders, and Capablanca is one of them. But it has only had one Paul Morphy!

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'til the world understands why Robert J. Fischer criticised the U.S./British and Russian military industry imperial alliance and their own Israeli Apartheid. Sarah Wilkinson explains:

Bobby Fischer, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech
What a sad story Fischer was,” typed a racist, pro-imperialist colonial troll who supports mega-corporation entities over human rights, police state policies & white supremacy.
To which I replied: “Really? I think he [Bob Fischer] stood up to the broken system of corruption and raised awareness! Whether on the Palestinian/Israel-British-U.S. Imperial Apartheid scam, the Bush wars of ‘7 countries in 5 years,’ illegally, unconstitutionally which constituted mass xenocide or his run in with police brutality in Pasadena, California-- right here in the U.S., police run rampant over the Constitution of the U.S., on oath they swore to uphold, but when Americans don't know the law, and the cops either don't know or worse, “don't care” -- then I think that's pretty darn “sad”. I think Mr. Fischer held out and fought the good fight, steadfast til the day he died, and may he Rest In Peace.
Educate yourself about U.S./State Laws --
https://www.youtube.com/@AuditTheAudit/videos
After which the troll posted a string of profanities, confirming there was never any genuine sentiment of “compassion” for Mr. Fischer, rather an intent to inflict further defamatory remarks.

This ongoing work is a tribute to the life and accomplishments of Robert “Bobby” Fischer who passionately loved and studied chess history. May his life continue to inspire many other future generations of chess enthusiasts and kibitzers, alike.

Robert J. Fischer, Kid Chess Wizard 1956March 9, 1943 - January 17, 2008

The photograph of Bobby Fischer (above) from the March 02, 1956 The Tampa Times was discovered by Sharon Mooney (Bobby Fischer Newspaper Archive editor) on February 01, 2018 while gathering research materials for this ongoing newspaper archive project. Along with lost games now being translated into Algebraic notation and extractions from over two centuries of newspapers, it is but one of the many lost treasures to be found in the pages of old newspapers since our social media presence was first established November 11, 2017.

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