1869

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July 09, 1869

• New-York Tribune New York, New York Friday, July 09, 1869 - Page 2 — The Chess Tournament.

July 11, 1869

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, July 11, 1869 - Page 7 — Chess. “The fame of Morphy as a Chess genius will surely endure as long as the game is known; that of the other player you name is not likely to prove an insupportable weight…”

July 15, 1869

• The St. Joseph Gazette St. Joseph, Missouri Thursday, July 15, 1869 - Page 3 — The chess tournament in New York has developed another Morphy, J. Mason by name, and eighteen years of age.

August 06, 1869

• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York Friday, August 06, 1869 - Page 1 — Paul Morphy, the Chess Player, is Practicing Law in New Orleans.

September 02, 1869

• New-York Tribune New York, New York Thursday, September 02, 1869 - Page 8 — Chess. Opening of the Season at the New York Chess Club — “…James Mason, a New Yorker, although not yet 19 years of age, has thus early fought his way to the front rank of the formidable array of New York chess-players. <biting political slander>We may yet find in him an aspirant for honors which although gallantly achieved, appear to be cheaply held by Paul Morphy…”</biting political slander> Read More

September 05, 1869

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, September 05, 1869 - Page 7 — Chess in Brooklyn. — “The following game, which has not been published in England, was contested between Mr. L. Paulsen, the great blindfold player on one side, and Mr. Ernest Morphy and another Amateur consulting together on the other.”

October 17, 1869

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, October 17, 1869 - Page 7 — “Chess” — “Blindfold Chess Playing. — Great praise, well-earned praise, was bestowed on Paul Morphy, not for the number only of the games he conducted simultaneously without sight of the board, but for the exceeding beauty of some of those games. Yet Morphy has been outdone in the number of games he played blindfold at one time, by the German, Paulsen, and by our countryman, Blackburne, each of whom has played as many as twelve games at once! While as to beauty it would be difficulty in any of Morphy's blindfold performances to find a more charming little game than the one below, which a correspondent sends as one of ten played by Blackburne without the Chess board at Kidderminster.” Read More

December 12, 1869

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, December 12, 1869 - Page 7 — “Chess” — Wonderful Coincidences.—The Philadelphia Daily Evening Bulletin of October 22d, 1869, has the following remarkable statement:— “February 16th, 1866, we published a short Muzio Gambit of Mr. Reichelm's, and of which, we have recently learned, Mr. Steinitz claims to be the author. If Mr. Steinitz really did play a game move for move the same as the game above mentioned, it is really a very curious coincidence. We can assure Mr. Steinitz, however, that such a thing as stealing games is unknown on this side of the Atlantic. Mr. Reichelm's adversary in the above contest, which was played in 1864, was Mr. R.B. Keys, a well-known player of this city, who at that time had not reached his present force of play. In conclusion, we beg leave to mention that another one of Mr. Steinitz's games is identical with a game played long ago between Messrs Ernest Morphy and Schaub.” Read More

Wonderful Coincidences 12 Dec 1869, Sun The Era (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com