1882

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January 14, 1882

• Brooklyn Times Union Brooklyn, New York Saturday, January 14, 1882 - Page 1 — Paul Morphy Chess Club

January 15, 1882

• The Times Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sunday, January 15, 1882 - Page 7 — The Chess Board - Latest Gossip and Problems For Lovers of the Game

January 16, 1882

• The Courier and Argus Dundee, Tayside, Scotland Monday, January 16, 1882 - Page 3 — Death of a Celebrated Chess Player. — Chess players all the world over will hear with great regret of the death from typhoid fever of Mr. Boden, which occurred at his residence in Tavistock Square, London, on Friday morning. Only a week or ten days ago, says a correspondent, I saw Mr. Boden, who was then in excellent health, playing chess with his usual animation and skill at one of the best-known chess resorts in London, and bringing strong opponents to grief with all his old ease and brilliancy. Early in life Mr. Boden, was engaged in scholastic work, but having a fondness for the arts he turned his attention to water-colour drawing, in which he had some fair ability, and also occupied himself in the business of picture-dealing. But his chief enjoyment in life was to get into a quiet corner at Simpson's divan and talk chess and play chess for hours together. His reputation as a chess player of the first rank had endured for so long a time —for he was contemporary with Staunton and Buckle and Deriviere and St. Amant in their best days, and, indeed, was the only opponent in Europe who anything like held his own against Paul Morphy—and his knowledge of the great players of the past generations was so extensive that his recollections were most interesting, and were constantly being poured out, enlivened with a flood of dry humor. His play, even at the close of his life, was so strong, differing, altogether from the more modern style of “safe” play, in which somehow or other the genius of chess seems altogether to evaporate. Mr. Boden will be greatly missed by lovers of chess, not only in London but even in the provinces; for many a provincial player has been tempted to the divan solely in the hope of breaking a lance with the old and brilliant champion. His funeral takes place on Tuesday next. ★ / ★ Read More

January 20, 1882

• The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post, Western Countries and South Wales Advertiser Bristol, Bristol, England Friday, January 20, 1882 - Page 6 — Boden, The Chess-Player. — To the Editor of the Mercury and Post. — SIR—I do not know who supplied you with the account of the death of Mr. Boden, the chess-player, which appeared in your issue of the 17th, but it says more than it should. “Indeed he was the only opponent in Europe who anything like held his own against Paul Morphy,” is incorrect. “The Triumphs of Paul Morphy,” by Mr. Edge, published 1859, is generally accepted as an authority upon anything concerning Morphy, and in the different scores given (page 200) Lowenthal, Harrwitz, Anderssen, and several others stand much higher than Boden. And, again, the games scored by the first-mentioned, L., H., and A., were match games, and harder to win from the champion than the off-hand fights which Boden played. There is no doubt but that he was a “master,” but to say, because he won one game, that he was the “only opponent,” &c., is complete nonsense, and an insult to his superiors, L., H., or the invincible Anderssen. Yours truly, Oswin Grainger, 16, High-Street, Worcester, January 18th, 1882. Read More

January 21, 1882

• The Leeds Mercury Leeds, West Yorkshire, England Saturday, January 21, 1882 - Page 19 — Chess.

January 21, 1882

• The Hull Packet; and East Riding Times Hull, East Yorkshire, England Friday, January 27, 1882 - Page 2 — Chess.

January 29, 1882

• The Times Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sunday, January 29, 1882 - Page 7 — The Chess-Board

February 03, 1882

• The Hull Packet; and East Riding Times Hull, East Yorkshire, England Friday, February 03, 1882 - Page 6 — Chess.

February 05, 1882

• St. Louis Globe-Democrat St. Louis, Missouri Sunday, February 05, 1882 - Page 11 — Chess. — Death of George Hammond. — “In off-hand games with Paul Morphy he was the only player who won a single game off him, and when Mr. Morphy visited Boston it was the privilege of Mr. Hammond to entertain the distinguished player, but they did not contest any games at that time.” Read More

February 12, 1882

• St. Louis Globe-Democrat St. Louis, Missouri Sunday, February 12, 1882 - Page 11 — Chess.

February 26, 1882

• Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan Sunday, February 26, 1882 - Page 10 — Chess.

March 11, 1882

• The Leeds Mercury Leeds, West Yorkshire, England Saturday, March 11, 1882 - Page 19 — Chess.

March 12, 1882

• The Times Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sunday, March 12, 1882 - Page 7 — The Chess Board.

March 18, 1882

• The Leeds Mercury Leeds, West Yorkshire, England Saturday, March 18, 1882 - Page 19 — Chess.

April 16, 1882

• St. Louis Globe-Democrat St. Louis, Missouri Sunday, April 16, 1882 - Page 18 — Chess.

May 26, 1882

• Liverpool Mercury, etc. Liverpool, Merseyside, England Friday, May 26, 1882 - Page 5 — International Chess Tournament at Vienna

June 06, 1882

• St. Joseph Gazette-Herald St. Joseph, Missouri Tuesday, June 06, 1882 - Page 2 — “St. Louis feels proud because her Captain Mackenzie leads all competitors in the international chess contest at Vienna. The gentleman who is thus winning back the laurel once brought to America by Paul Morphy, is the chess editor of the G.D.”

June 07, 1882

• The Lancaster Examiner Lancaster, Pennsylvania Wednesday, June 07, 1882 - Page 6 — An American Chess-Player Abroad. — No news from the chess tournament now in progress at Vienna has been received in New York since its ninth day. Captain Mackenzie, of New York, and Messrs. Winawer and Blackburn were leading, each having won seven games. Max Judd, of St. Louis, who was the Western representative in the last Congress, is reported as making a fair record, but is not among the first players. Captain Mackenzie is about forty-five years of age. He is of Scotch birth and derived his title from service in the British Army. He won renown as a chess-player at a tournament in London fully twenty years ago. He came to the United States about eighteen or nineteen years ago, and served in the Union Army during the Rebellion. Captain Mackenzie has beaten every prominent chess-player in this country, excepting Paul Morphy. At the fifth international congress he won the first prize—$500 and a gold medal. Read More

June 14, 1882

• The Times-Democrat New Orleans, Louisiana Wednesday, June 14, 1882 - Page 4 — The Vienna Chess Tournament

June 17, 1882

• The Leeds Mercury Leeds, West Yorkshire, England Saturday, June 17, 1882 - Page 19 — Chess.

June 22, 1882

• St. Joseph Gazette-Herald St. Joseph, Missouri Thursday, June 22, 1882 - Page 2 — No event in the history of chess tourneys since the days of the advent of the American chess champion Morphy, has excited such widespread interest in chess circles throughout the world as the international meeting of chess champions at Vienna, which is now closed… Read More

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Thursday, June 22, 1882 - Page 2 — International Chess Tourney.

June 27, 1882

• The Pall Mall Gazette London, Greater London, England Tuesday, June 27, 1882 - Page 4 — The Vienna Chess Tournament

July 14, 1882

• The Hull Packet; and East Riding Times Hull, East Yorkshire, England Friday, July 14, 1882 - Page 6 — Chess.

August 11, 1882

• The Hull Packet; and East Riding Times Hull, East Yorkshire, England Friday, August 11, 1882 - Page 6 — Chess.

August 13, 1882

• St. Louis Globe-Democrat St. Louis, Missouri Sunday, August 20, 1882 - Page 16 — Chess.

August 26, 1882

• The Times Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sunday, March 12 1882 — Journalism in Bulk — “…at the same time one is tempted to paraphrase the French criticism on the Balaklava charge—c'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre; it is magnificent, but it is not legitimate journalism.”

• The St. Albans Daily Messenger Saint Albans, Vermont Saturday, August 26, 1882 - Page 2

September 02, 1882

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Saturday, September 02, 1882 - Page 4 — Louisiana Biographies, part I

September 06, 1882

• The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Maryland Wednesday, September 06, 1882 - Page 6 — Paul Morphy, the chess-player, having recently been asked to furnish materials for a biographical notice in a proposed volume, writes to the New Orleans Bee that his father having left him an estate “ample enough to allow me to decently defray all my expenses, I have followed no calling and have given no cause for a biography. I have received a diploma as a lawyer.” He, however, adds, with pardonable pride: “A Louisianian by birth and in heart, a son of a father who acquired a reputation of jurisconsult at the Louisiana bar, who was a member of the Legislature, attorney-general and judge of the Supreme Court, and a grandchild of a grandfather who had the honor of representing Spain in New Orleans during a part of the first quarter of this century, I could but approve of a work that would bring to light the services, recent or old, rendered to our Louisiana.” ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ Read More

Paul Morphy, the Chess Player 06 Sep 1882, Wed The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, Maryland) Newspapers.com

September 29, 1882

• The Hull Packet; and East Riding Times Hull, East Yorkshire, England Friday, September 29, 1882 - Page 6 — Chess. “The Fugitive Games of Mr. Morphy”

October 22, 1882

• The Times-Democrat New Orleans, Louisiana Sunday, October 22, 1882 - Page 3 — The Chess Tourney.

October 29, 1882

• The Times Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sunday, October 29, 1882 - Page 6 — The Chess Board

October 31, 1882

• The Buffalo Commercial Buffalo, New York Tuesday, October 31, 1882 - Page 3 — International Tournament.

November 03, 1882

• The Hull Packet; and East Riding Times Hull, East Yorkshire, England Friday, November 03, 1882 - Page 6 — Chess.

November 04, 1882

• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York Saturday, November 04, 1882 - Page 2 — Chess.

November 07, 1882

• The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Tuesday, November 07, 1882 - Page 2 — Chess. - An Interesting Revival of the Ancient and Honorable Game.

November 14, 1882

• The Times Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Tuesday, November 14, 1882 - Page 1 — A Great Match At Chess. - Steinitz Wins After Many Hours.

November 16, 1882

• Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, New York Thursday, November 16, 1882 - Page 2 — Steinitz of Europe, and Martinez of Cuba

November 17, 1882

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Friday, November 17, 1882 - Page 2 — Champion Chessmen - Steinitz Playing at Philadelphia

• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York Friday, November 17, 1882 - Page 2 — Sports and Pastimes - Chess.

November 18, 1882

• Courier-Post Camden, New Jersey Saturday, November 18, 1882 - Page 1 — The Great Chess Game - Steinitz/Martinez

November 19, 1882

• The Times Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sunday, November 19, 1882 - Page 3 — Chess Champion. ★

• The Galveston Daily News Galveston, Texas Sunday, November 19, 1882 - Page 2 — Whist, Chess and Classics.

November 20, 1882

• The Freeman's Journal Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Monday, November 20, 1882 - Page 5 — False Death Report of Paul Morphy

November 23, 1882

• Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express Buffalo, New York Thursday, November 23, 1882 - Page 2 — Steinitz, the London Chess Champion

November 24, 1882

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Friday, November 24, 1882 - Page 8 — Steinitz's Fourth Game

November 25, 1882

• The Lake Charles Echo Lake Charles, Louisiana Saturday, November 25, 1882 - Page 3 — Louisiana Biographies. — “The ECHO was the recipient of a pleasant call this week from Mr. A. Meynier, Jr., of New Orleans, publisher of “Meynier's Louisiana Biographies.” This work when complete, will consist of four parts, and besides being an entertaining work for the average reader will be found invaluable to public men, especially citizens of Louisiana, as a work of reference. The part before us contains biographical sketches of all the governors of this state, also short sketches of Paul Morphy, the once noted chess player, and of that celebrated free-booter, Lafitte. The work is beautifully printed with large, clear type, and is bound in library binding at $5, cloth binding at $4, paper binding at $3. The work when complete will contain 300 pages. Parts may be returned to the publisher for binding. Read More

November 26, 1882

• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York Sunday, November 26, 1882 - Page 5 — Chess Clubs in Brooklyn

November 28, 1882

• The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio Tuesday, November 28, 1882 - Page 2 — Chess - The Fight Between the Champions

December 05, 1882

• The Times-Democrat New Orleans, Louisiana Tuesday, December 05, 1882 - Page 2 — Chess. — “The Baltimore Chess Club have decided to invite Mr. W. Steinitz, the world's chess champion, to visit Baltimore for one week to play a series of five games with the Baltimore champion, Mr. Alexander G. Seliman, and to give an exhibition of his marvelous powers at playing blindfold and simultaneous games. The association will make arrangements for a general public exhibition. This, says the Baltimore American will undoubtedly be the greatest event in Baltimore chess circles since the memorable visit of Paul Morphy 20 years ago.” Read More

December 07, 1882

• The Times-Democrat New Orleans, Louisiana Thursday, December 07, 1882 - Page 2 — Chess. Morphy and Steinitz.

December 09, 1882

• Sheffield and Rotherham Independent Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England Saturday, December 09, 1882 - Page 13 — Chess. — An unwary H.E. Bird reprints the false news report circulated by political detractors, of Paul Morphy's death.

December 10, 1882

• The Times Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sunday, December 10, 1882 - Page 5 — A Week At Chess

December 14, 1882

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Thursday, December 14, 1882 - Page 2 — Champion Steinitz - Something About His Chess Playing

December 17, 1882

• St. Louis Globe-Democrat St. Louis, Missouri Sunday, December 17, 1882 - Page 17 — Chess. — False report of Morphy's death refuted.

December 21, 1882

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Thursday, December 21, 1882 - Page 9 — Chess In Philadelphia

December 23, 1882

• News and Observer Raleigh, North Carolina Saturday, December 23, 1882 - Page 1 — Steinitz and Blindfold Games

December 24, 1882

• The Times Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sunday, December 24, 1882 - Page 6 — The Chess-Board Steinitz in Baltimore -- Chess Play Versus Chess Science.

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Sunday, December 24, 1882 - Page 3 — Chess. How to Play Steinitz.

December 28, 1882

• The Wilmington Morning Star Wilmington, North Carolina Thursday, December 28, 1882 - Page 2 — “In Baltimore on the 23rd inst., Herr Wilhelm Steinitz played thirty games of chess at the same time against thirty different contestants. There was quite a crowd who witnessed the extraordinary contest. Herr Steinitz was victorious in all contests save one, which was a draw. But after all this is not comparable to the great contest Paul Morphy, of New Orleans, with the four best European chess players, he playing blind folded and beating them all.” Read More

• The Times-Democrat New Orleans, Louisiana Thursday, December 28, 1882 - Page 2 — Chess. - The third game between Mr. Steinitz and Mr. Sellman of Baltimore concluded on Thursday last.

• The Times-Democrat New Orleans, Louisiana Thursday, December 28, 1882 - Page 3 — The Chess Champion. — A telegram was received, last night, by the Chess, Checkers and Whist Club, from him, Dalton, Ga., stating that he would be here this morning. The club has been making great preparations for his reception, and a series of games will soon be commenced. Read More

• The Times-Democrat New Orleans, Louisiana Thursday, December 28, 1882 - Page 3 — Steinitz, the chess champion, arrives in the city to-day. He will be the guest of the Chess, Checkers and Whist Club, and will play a series of games there.

December 29, 1882

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Friday, December 29, 1882 - Page 2 — Herr Wilhelm Steinitz, the chess champion, arrived this morning by the Louisville and Nashville Road. He will remain the this city throughout the ensuing month as the guest of the Chess, Checkers and Whist Club.

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Friday, December 29, 1882 - Page 2 — Steinitz - The Chess Champion's Arrival - His Record and His System.

• The Tennessean Nashville, Tennessee Friday, December 29, 1882 - Page 2 — New Orleans — William Steinitz, the celebrated chess-player, arrived in this city, today, and will begin at once a great chess tournament, playing several persons blindfolded. An attempt will be made to persuade the celebrated Paul Morphy, who is a resident of this city, to play him.

• The Times-Democrat New Orleans, Louisiana Sunday, December 29, 1882 - Page 2 — The Chess Champion. Mr. Steinitz Visits the New Orleans Club. — Mr. Steinitz, the chess champion, arrived in New Orleans yesterday morning by the Mobile road. he was met at the depot by two or three gentlemen of the Chess, Checkers and Whist Club, whose guest in the city he is, and taken to his quarters at the City Hotel. About noon he visited the club-rooms over Common street, and was tendered an informal reception, where his health and success were drank in champagne. He again visited the club last night and played a few games of whist. As the trip between here and Baltimore is the longest distance he has ever traveled by rail, he expresses himself as not being very strong, and too fatigued to play chess. He will not play any peripatetic games until next week. Read More

December 30, 1882

• The Times-Democrat New Orleans, Louisiana Saturday, December 30, 1882 - Page 2 — Chess. — Capt. Mackenzie played 22 games of chess simultaneously last evening in the rooms of the Manhattan Chess Club, in Fourteenth street. Two of the games he won with comparative ease in about half a dozen moves each, but the other games lasted until a late hour. There was a large number of visitors, who closely watch the progress of the games, but all conversation was carried on in whispers, so as not to disturb the players. Capt. Mackenzie was not quite as fortunate last evening as at the preceding contest. Eugene Delmar, who the last time surprised his friends by being defeated at a comparatively early stage of the game, compelled Capt. Mackenzie to resign last evening, and was warmly congratulated. The Captain lost a game to Charles Isaacson, the youngest player in the party. Messrs. Gilette and Hartshorne succeeded in drawing with the Captain. The other 18 games were won by him. Read More

• The Times-Democrat New Orleans, Louisiana Saturday, December 30, 1882 - Page 12 — Steinitz. — One of His Games Played at the Chess Club Last Night. — “Herr Steinitz is a native of Prague, in Bohemia, and by something of a coincident, first saw the light in the year 1837, the same in which Morphy was born. …In the early part of 1866, he was unsuccessful in an attempt to give pawn and move to Mr. De Vere, another English player, but in no wise daunted and even while this match was in progress, he declared his intention to issue a challenge to Herr Anderssen, the acknowledged European champion, and who had yielded the palm only to Morphy. It is curious to note that of this challenge Staunton wrote in the Chess World, February, 1866, that “the error committed by Mr. Steinitz in consenting to this match (with De Vere) is as nothing to that which he is rumored to have in contemplation, to wit: the challenging of Mr. Anderssen to a contest upon even terms for £100 a side! We suspect, however, and hope that this absurd report will prove an idle hoax.” But the match did occur, and to the surprise of his critics, Steinitz defeated his veteran antagonist by a score of 8 to 6… Read More

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Friday, December 30, 1882 - Page 2 — Steinitz — Wins Four Out of Five Games at Odds of a Knight — Herr Steinitz spent the greater part of yesterday in the rooms of the Chess, Checkers and Whist Club. Although it is not the purpose of the club to engage him in peripatetic and blindfold play, or in formal encounters of any sort, until he shall have completely recovered from the fatigue of travel and of the matches which have recently taxed his strength, he played several off hand games with Mr. Leon Labatt, giving the odds of the queen's knight, and one consultation game, at the same odds, against Messrs. Fass and Wibray. His score with Mr. Labatt stands 3 to 1. Appended below is the game won by Mr. Labatt, and also by the most brilliant of the games won by the champion. The latter game will be found especially worthy of study, but in some respects a departure from the method of the “new school.” The consultation game was a close and protracted struggle, resulting in favor of Mr. Steinitz. Read More

December 31, 1882

• The Times-Democrat New Orleans, Louisiana Sunday, December 31, 1882 - Page 3 — Steinitz — A Game Between Him and the President of the Chess Club — Steinitz played two games with Mr. Maurian, president of the Chess Club, yesterday. He won both of them. The third, which is given below, will not be finished till tomorrow.

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Sunday, December 31, 1882 - Page 6 — Steinitz. — A Fine Game Between the Champ and the President of the Chess, Checkers and Whist Club — Thirty Peripatetic Games to be Played. — Mr. Steinitz played several games of chess yesterday, on even terms, with Mr. Marian, the accomplished President of the Chess, Checkers and Whist Club. The latter gentleman has not been in active practice for some time. Indeed, it is not often that he has an opportunity to exercise his skill with a player as strong as himself, and, therefore, it was not surprising that in his first and second games with Mr. Steinitz he failed to exhibit wonted force. In his last game with the redoubtable champion, however, he maneuvered his forces as only a great chess strategist can. The game to question is still unfinished. After a struggle of three or four hours, Mr. Steinitz having failed to secure a winning game proposed an adjournment. The renewals of the contest is fixed for Tuesday next.
  At 7 o'clock next Tuesday evening Mr. Steinitz will undertake to play peripatetically thirty simultaneous games.
  By the way, it may be mentioned here, as an item of some local interest, that the members of the Chess, Checkers and Whist Club have been highly complimented by Mr. Steinitz upon the elegance and superior appointments of their rooms. The champion declares that they are the finest he has ever seen, and as he is familiar with the favorite haunts of chess players in nearly every part of Europe, he is prepared to speak with authority in this regard.
  It will be remembered that in one of the published games with Mr. Labatt, Mr. Steinitz moved his queen under fire to check the adverse king, and that the Picayune appended to the game a note showing how by a certain series of moves the capture of the queen would have cost the capturing party the loss of the game. After reconsidering the situation, Mr. Steinitz has discovered that he might have announced mate in three moves had M.r Labatt ventured to accept the proffered sacrifice. It may be and well to withhold the solution of the problem thus suggested, and to leave it for the nonce as a nut to be cracked by bright chess students hereabout.
  Mr. Steinitz's best game so far was played last night against Messrs. Fass and Wibray in consultation. The allies received the odds of a queen's knight, and were defeated in thirty-three moves. Read More

“The happiness of “the Bohemian Caesar,” as Steinitz fondly called himself, was not unalloyed. Paul Morphy was his bête noire. He attempted to undermine the pedestal upon which Morphy's glory is everlastingly established. But he did not succeed. If Blackburne makes a brilliant combination, he calls it a “bit of Morphy.” But no one ever heard anybody call a brilliant finish a bit of Steinitz…” — The Age Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Saturday, June 19, 1897 Poison Pen Blackmail and Defamation of New Orleans Lawyer Paul Morphy: These articles were part of 1860s-80s campaign of stalking. Attempts by friends of Morphy vouching for his sanity & to stop such false rumors (New Orleans Republican 11/21/1875; Tennessean Nashville, 5/05/1877, “The Truth About Mr. Paul Morphy. He has Never been Insane”; Detroit Free Press 11/30/1880, etc). 1884 at age 47, Mr. Morphy “suddenly died”. The stalker's press release claimed ‘due to a bath on a hot day.’ Forensic toxicology was still in its infancy and no investigation ever performed. ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / False Report of Paul Morphy's Death / False Report of Paul Morphy's Death / ★ / ★