1870

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January 03, 1870

• The Brooklyn Union Brooklyn, New York Monday, January 03, 1870 - Page 1 — “Chess”

January 21, 1870

• The Brooklyn Union Brooklyn, New York Friday, January 21, 1870 - Page 1 — Chess. — “The Gambit Openings. — For the benefit of the chess student, we give below the first of a series of brief articles on the most important of the chess openings known as the “gambits.” The first we present is the “Scotch gambit,” a variation of the attack known as the “Giuoco Piano” It is a strong opening. This game frequently results in some fine chess strategy … The following illustration of the noted “Evans Gambit” is from a game played by Morphy and Anderssen, in which Morphy was defeated.” Read More

January 22, 1870

• The Brooklyn Union Brooklyn, New York Saturday, January 22, 1870 - Page 1 — Sports And Pastimes — Chess. — The Tribune on Chess. — Which of the chess clubs has been giving the cold shoulder to the Tribune chess reporter? Something has been done to sour his usually amiable disposition, for he is pitching into chess apparently to revenge some slight or other offered him at one or other of the prominent resorts. His second shot is as follows. … … Any one posted in chess matters knows that at no period since the Morphy excitement some ten years ago, has chess playing been so prominently before the public as it is at the present time. There are now four separate chess organizations in the metropolis, all flourishing, besides which no less than four regular tourneys were in progress at the same time. The members of clubs are beginning to realize that the true policy of progress is to encourage these tournaments, and to keep the game alive by interesting club contests. The suggestion of our Tribune friend is a good one, and if he had inquired about town a little he would have learned the fact that a match of the kind he refers to is now in progress of arrangement. Now please stop this “pitching in” process. If you have nothing to say favorable to the game, don't write about it at all. By the way, what is a “conversation game” at chess? Read More

January 23, 1870

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, January 23, 1870 - Page 7 — Chess.

February 04, 1870

• Pittsburgh Daily Post Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Friday, February 04, 1870 - Page 1 — Proposed Chess Tournament — “…We had a fine chess club, and the greatest public interest was manifested in all quarters concerning games, tournaments, and miner contests. This was it will be remembered, about the time when Paul Morphy visited Pittsburgh. Keep the ball in motion, gentlemen, and let us have the chess tournament.” Read More

March 11, 1870

• Burlington Weekly Free Press Burlington, Vermont Friday, March 11, 1870 - Page 4 — Philadelphia Chess Player Dies — “Phil. Montgomery, long the champion of the chess players of Philadelphia, died in Marysville, Ca., recently, of a paralysis with which he was first attacked last Christmas day. He was an elegant scholar, a lawyer of merit, and, after Morphy, was the most dashing, brilliant and interesting player in America, though sometimes overmatched in stolid persistence.” Read More

March 25, 1870

• The Brooklyn Union Brooklyn, New York Saturday, March 25, 1871 - Page 3 — Cigar named after Paul Morphy. ★

March 29, 1870

• The Burlington Free Press Burlington, Vermont Tuesday, March 29, 1870 - Page 4 — “…After Morphy retired from the checkered field, the practice of chess drooped. A revival has, however, lately sprung up, indications of which have been many in the shape of matches and tournaments.” ★

April 01, 1870

• The Evening Telegraph Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Friday, April 01, 1870 - Page 8 “Staunton's Chess Book.”

May 07, 1870

• New York Daily Herald New York, New York Saturday, May 07, 1870 - Page 9 — Chess Matters. — A grand chess congress will be held at Baden Baden, which will commence on the 15th of July next. The most eminent chess players of Europe will attend, among others Messrs. Anderssen, Kolisch, L. Paulsen, Bird, Lange, Suhle, Neumann, De Riviere, Blackburn and many other celebrities. It is to be hoped that America will send a few of her chess champions to the congress. Messrs. Paul Morphy, Samuel Loyd and J. Mason could ably represent chess in America… Read More

June 05, 1870

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, June 05, 1870 - Page 7 — Chess in Philadelphia. — The following fine game was sent lately to La Strategie by Mr. Ernest Morphy as a good example of the attack obtained by the first player in moving 9. K R to K sq, and with the request that Mr. Neumann would annotate it. In compliance with Mr. Morphy's request Mr. Neumann has kindly written notes on a few of the most important moves. These notes, together with some by Mr. E. Morphy, we have incorporated in the text, distinguishing the former by the initials G.R.N., and the latter by E.M. Read More

June 08, 1870

• New York Daily Herald New York, New York Wednesday, June 08, 1870 - Page 8 — An Extraordinary Game by Telegraph. — A challenge was recently issued by J.A. Galbraith, of Jackson, Miss.; W.E. Tinney, of Natchez, Miss.; J.A. Tinney and J. Hardy, of Vicksburg, to four chess players of New Orleans to play with them a match of one game by telegraph. The match was accepted, and Messrs. Blackman, Manrinn, Tarrant and Strong were elected to represent New Orleans. The celebrated player Paul Morphy was excluded. The game, which was an Evans gambit… ★ / ★ Read More

June 28, 1870

• The New York Herald New York, New York Tuesday, June 28, 1870 - Page 2 — Chess Matters - A Game in Consultation — “…Captain Mackenzie, however, won several games in succession from Mr. Hosmer, thereby establishing his claim to be the finest chess player in the United States except Paul Morphy.” ★

July 05, 1870

• The Sun Talladega, Alabama Tuesday, July 05, 1870 - Page 3 — — A match at chess of one game was very recently contested between the cities of Jackson, Natchez and Vicksburg, all of Mississippi, and the city of New Orleans (excluding Paul Morphy). Mr. J.A. Galbraith represented Jackson, Mr. W.E. Tinney represented Natchez, and Messrs. J.A. Tinney and J. Hardy were the champions of Vicksburg. New Orleans was represented by Messrs. Blackman; Maurian, Tarrant and Strong. The game, after a contest of twenty-six moves, was declared in favor of the Mississippi champions. Read More

July 31, 1870

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, July 31, 1870 - Page 7 “Chess in New York and Philadelphia.”

November 20, 1870

• The New York Times New York, New York Sunday, November 20, 1870 - Page 4 — International Chess Congress

November 21, 1870

• The Brooklyn Union Brooklyn, New York Monday, November 21, 1870 - Page 4 — Brooklyn Chess Players — “… colored lithograph from the celebrated engraving by Retch of the young man playing at chess with Satan for his soul. There is also a photograph of Paul Morphy, who is now a lawyer in New Orleans. Paulsen is in Dubuque, and as both of these wonderful players were brought out by the last Chess Congress, it is not too much to hope that similar fortunate results would follow the proposed repetition upon a larger scale.” Read More

November 26, 1870

• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York Saturday, November 26, 1870 - Page 2 — The Royal Game of Chess - Proposed Chess Congress

December 02, 1870

• The Brooklyn Union Brooklyn, New York Friday, December 02, 1870 - Page 2 — The Miracles of Billiards Last Evening. — “as Mr. Paul Morphy went to Europe to win the world's laurel for chess. It was difficult, so long as Mr. Morphy remained in New York, and encountered only a few home players for antagonists, to know the exact measure of his superiority. But when he went abroad and conquered Loewenthal, Staunton, and (above all) Anderssen of Berlin, he was the acknowledged chieftain of the chess-world.” Read More

December 05, 1870

• The Brooklyn Union Brooklyn, New York Monday, December 05, 1870 - Page 4 — Obituary - James Thompson, the Chess Player — All lovers of chess will be grieved to hear of the death of one of the oldest and best chess players of the country. We mean Mr. James Thompson, of New York, the restaurateur. He was a fine old gentleman of elegant appearance and agreeable manners, and was a pertinacious player of the old school, whose lights were quenched (or rather outshone) by Mr. Paul Morphy. Mr. Thompson was a man of wealth, and, though he managed an active business, always had time to stop and play a game of chess with some foeman worthy of his style. He was early known for his great skill in handling the Evans Gambit, an opening at which (before the advent of the later school) he was supposed to have no superior in the country. Mr. Morphy, however, introduced a reply to the Evans gambit which robbed it of its former terrors as a slashing opening and this gambit is no longer considered as a favorite method of attack. Mr. Thompson was President of the New York Chess Club, an association of which he had been a member for twenty years. Read More

December 25, 1870

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, December 25, 1870 - Page 4 — Chess — An International Chess Congress in New York — “A movement is on foot in the United States to organise a Chess Congress at New York, upon a grander scale and in a more cosmopolitan spirit than the Meeting of 1857, which was got together chiefly to do honour to Paul Morphy …” Read More