1872

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January 07, 1872

• The Cairo Bulletin Cairo, Illinois Sunday, January 07, 1872 - Page 2 — Paul Morphy, the famous chess player, still resides in New Orleans. He is now 35 years of age. ★ / ★

• The Observer London, Greater London, England Sunday, January 07, 1872 - Page 2 — Chess Doings In the Past Year

January 12, 1872

• ❌Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois Friday, January 12, 1872 - Page 2 Paul Morphy. Paul Morphy, so widely known, in ante-war days, as the champion American chess-player, is announced as having made an arrangement with a prominent St. Louisan to play a game of chess blindfolded. It is said $10,000 will be the stake played for. E.M.D. ★ / ★ / ★ Read More

January 17, 1872

• The Burlington Free Press Burlington, Vermont Wednesday, January 17, 1872 - Page 3 — Paul Morphy, of chess celebrity, is practicing law in New Orleans. ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★

• ❌The Morning Democrat Davenport, Iowa Wednesday, January 17, 1872 - Page 2 — Mr. P. Morphy is reported to have made an arrangement to play one of his blindfold games of chess with a prominent citizen of St. Louis. It will be, of course, a private venture and a private party, the money to be staked not to exceed ten thousand dollars. (Delusional tales found in the fictional biographies about ‘Raul Murphy’.) Read More

January 19, 1872

• ❌Knoxville Daily Chronicle Knoxville, Tennessee Friday, January 19, 1872 - Page 2 — Paul Morphy is going to play a game of chess with a St. Louis man for $10,000.

February 08, 1872

• ❌The Pittsfield Sun Pittsfield, Massachusetts Thursday, February 08, 1872 - Page 1 — Paul Morphy, the once famous chess player, is making arrangements for a great game at St. Louis. He is to go it blind for $10,000.

• Spirit of the Age Woodstock, Vermont Thursday, February 08, 1872 - Page 2 — Automaton Reminiscences. — “In this same city, a few days afterwards, ended the travels of the machine in Europe. The partners separated, the best of friends, and Maelzel began his preparations for a tour in the New World, the details of which were ably recited in the Chess Journal, formerly edited by Paul Morphy and published in New York. Schlumberger, a German, and a very strong chess player, directed the movements of the machine, and the secret was undiscovered, except by some boys in Baltimore, who, not having the cash to pay for admission, climbed upon some sheds overlooking the rooms in the rear and were so started upon the conclusion of the exhibition to see a little man in shirt-sleeves hop out of the machine, that they nearly broke their necks in their efforts to get away, and, upon reaching home, repeated what they had seen.” ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ Read More

February 09, 1872

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Friday, February 09, 1872 - Page 2 — Chess. La Espana, a Havana paper, announces that our fellow townsman, Mr. Paul Morphy, the great chess player, has gone to St. Louis to play a game of chess, in which the prize is to be $10,000, and he is to play blindfolded. This will be news to Mr. Morphy, we presume; or, if he knows of it, he has managed to keep it a profound secret. This reminds us of the many attempts made here since the war to reestablish the Chess Club which, in the olden time, when Paul Morphy was in his prime, attracted so many players to the club rooms, on Canal street, and exerted so much attention in the chess circles of the civilized world. There was either, however, not life enough in the individual members, or a sufficient membership, to sustain these post bellum efforts; and all that is heard now about a Chess Club is an occasional expression of regret by some veteran of the ante bellum organization that the lovers of the noble game cannot once more gather together in one assembly room, and there do obstinate battle in peaceful style, and like good Republicans of the Washington and Jefferson days, exclaim once more: “Check to the King!” ★ / ★ / ★ Read More

Chess. 09 Feb 1872, Fri The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana) Newspapers.com

March 02, 1872

• The Pacific Commercial Advertiser Honolulu, Hawaii Saturday, March 02, 1872 - Page 5 — Paul Morphy, the foremost chess player of any age or country, still resides in New Orleans, where he is practicing law. ★

March 05, 1872

• The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Tuesday, March 05, 1872 - Page 5 — It is nearly twenty years since Paul Morphy astonished the world as a chess player. He is now practicing law in New Orleans. ★

It is Nearly Twenty Years Since Paul Morphy Astonished the World 05 Mar 1872, Tue The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com

March 10, 1872

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, March 10, 1872 - Page 2 — Chess

March 23, 1872

• Buffalo Courier Buffalo, New York Saturday, March 23, 1872 - Page 1 — Paul Morphy, the chess-player, now keeps a grocery store in New Orleans. ★

March 24, 1872

• Nashville Union and American Nashville, Tennessee Sunday, March 24, 1872 - Page 3 — Paul Morphy, the chess player, has turned corner grocer at New Orleans. ★

Paul Morphy, Corner Grocer 24 Mar 1872, Sun Nashville Union and American (Nashville, Tennessee) Newspapers.com

March 25, 1872

• The Daily State Journal Alexandria, Virginia Monday, March 25, 1872 — Paul Morphy, the chess player, now keeps a grocery store in New Orleans.

May 06, 1872

• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York Monday, May 06, 1872 - Page 2 — Chess at the Mercantile

May 13, 1872

• The Brooklyn Union Brooklyn, New York Monday, May 13, 1872 - Page 2 — The New Chess Club

July 01, 1872

• Wisconsin State Journal Madison, Wisconsin Monday, July 01, 1872 - Page 2 — The President. — “Why, I remember, about a dozen years ago, there was a dinner given to a chess player by the name of Morphy, at the Revere House, a hotel in this city, where, I am credibly informed, they sell wine contrary to the statute laws of the Commonwealth, and at that dinner Chief Justice Shaw and Dr. Walker, the President of Harvard College, were invited to attend as guests, to celebrate the great triumph of chess, and they went, and a short time afterward that eloquent orator and amiable critic of mankind, Mr. Phillips, came out with a piece of invective in his most trenchant and finished style upon these two gentlemen, charging Chief Justice Shaw and President Walker with violating and setting at naught one of the most important laws of the Commonwealth… Read More

July 10, 1872

• New Orleans Republican New Orleans, Louisiana Wednesday, July 10, 1872 - Page 6 — E.C. Morphy, Recorder of Births and Deaths 1872

July 13, 1872

• The Montgomery Advertiser Montgomery, Alabama Saturday, July 13, 1872 - Page 1 — “…In the cabin of the Henrietta we found wines and other liquors in abundance together with a box of the celebrated Paul Morphy cigars on which all hands regaled themselves during the trip…”

July 20, 1872

• New Orleans Republican New Orleans, Louisiana Wednesday, July 10, 1872 — E.C. Morphy, Recorder of Births and Deaths 1872

July 31, 1872

• Valley Spirit Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Wednesday, July 31, 1872 - Page 1 — Christianity and Card-Playing — “…Paul Morphy is an example of the emptiness of Franklin's claim for chess. His marvelous powers of analysis in the game should have made him, according to Franklin's ideas, equally great in his legal profession, but he is probably outside of chess a man of ordinary ability.” Read More

August 10, 1872

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Saturday, August 10, 1872 - Page 5 — Eugene Morphy at a “Democratic Rally”

August 23, 1872

• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York Friday, August 23, 1872 - Page 3 — Chess by Correspondents

October 12, 1872

• The Indianapolis News Indianapolis, Indiana Saturday, October 12, 1872 - Page 2 — An ‘ausserordentlich, schachspieler” in Berlin, named Raeder, is said to be able to beat Paul Morphy at chess. ★

October 24, 1872

• The Manchester Journal Manchester, Vermont Thursday, October 24, 1872 - Page 1 — For The Journal: About The Game Of Chess (Excerpt) — The most famous chess players of modern times have been Leonardi da Cutri, Salvio and Dubois of Italy, Ruy Gomez of Spain, Labourdonnais of France, Adolph Anderssen of Germany, Stein and Staunton of England and Paul Charles Morphy of America. Paul Morphy was born in New Orleans June 22, 1837. He early exhibited a fondness for the game of chess and at the age of ten years was taught the moves and powers of the pieces by his father; two years later he had encountered successfully all the best amateurs of his native city. In 1855 he entered a law school and in 1857, was admitted to the Lousiana bar when he should have completed his 21st year. At this time he exhibited his already remarkable skill in various contests with Eugene Rousseau, his uncle, Ernest Morphy, and Lowenthal, defeating them in a majority of games; and when in 1857, Mr. Daniel W. Fisk of New York, projected the chess congress, one of his first acts was to invite the attendance of the young player. At the congress, Mr. Morphy defeated in a majority of games, many being at considerable odds, the first players of the United States. In December Morphy returned to New Orleans and published a challenge to the whole American chess community to play him at the odds of a pawn and a move; the challenge was never accepted. During the following season Morphy exhibited his ability to play without seeing the board, sometimes conducting as many as seven games at one time. In 1858 a committee of the New Orleans Chess Club set a letter to Mr. Staunton, the champion of English chess, inviting him to play a match with Morphy for a stake of $5000, and accompanying the invitation with the agreement that should the English player lose the match, the sum of $1000 was to be paid him out of the stakes as reimbursement of the expenses incurred by him. Staunton declined the invitation on the grounds of the distance. Mr. Morphy afterward decided to visit England and the continent, and in June of the same year sailed from New York. In London he continued the round of success which had characterized his previous efforts, and even defeated Mr. Lowenthal whose strength had greatly increased since this previous play. Fourteen games were played of which Mr. Morphy won 9 and Lowenthal 3, two being drawn. On August 26, Morphy attended the annual meeting of the British Chess Association at Birmingham, where he played 8 games simultaneously without seeing the boards, winning 6 and losing 1, one being drawn. In September he went to Paris, where he defeated the best French players of the Cafe de la rigence including Revierei Laroche, Jouroud and Deviuck. On December 20, he encountered the celebrated Adolph Anderssen, considered the champion of Germany chess. The result of the match was, Morphy 7, Anderssen 2, drawn 2. Morphy continued playing in Paris with his usual success, until April 4, when a farewell banquet was given him, at which his bust was crowed with laurel by the French players. His career in Europe had been one of continued triumph. His urbanity and gentleness of manners had engaged him to all his adversaries who exhibited their regard by public dinners and orations wherever he went. Morphy has never adopted chess-playing as a profession, and latterly he has played but rarely, devoting himself almost exclusively to his profession. As a lawyer, Morphy has been distinguished as a manager of litigated cases rather than as an advocate. Chess is a game which has attracted the attention, and won the admiration of the greatest and best men in every age. ★ Read More

December 19, 1872

• ❌The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York Thursday, December 19, 1872 - Page 1 — A Chicago paper wants to know what has become of Paul Morphy. When last heard from he was in New Orleans, and not only plays no chess, but affects to despise the game of which he was once the champion.

December 26, 1872

• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York Thursday, December 26, 1872 - Page 3 — The Death of St. Amant

December 27, 1872

• Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois Friday, December 27, 1872 - Page 2 — Morphy. A great New Orleans chap in his time was Paul Morphy, the chess-player. He is now a lawyer with very moderate success, but a very exquisite costume. ★