Eugene Rousseau is a New-Orleans chess players who is well known for having played (and lost) a match against Charles Stanley in 1845. I was…
Paul Morphy
Jules Arnous de Riviere was a French player. He was born on May 4th, 1830, in Nantes. I retrieved his birth certificate here: https://archives-numerisees.nantes.fr/v2/am441/visualiseur/etatcivil.html?id=451003265: His real name…
In 1837, Aaron Alexandre published a book entitled Encyclopédie des échecs. This book was really an ancestor of the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, which will…
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This post is about Paul Morphy’s family. If you are more interested in a general biography of Paul Morphy, please read this article. The book…
The match between Paul Morphy and Adolf Anderssen started on Monday, December 20th, 1858 in Paris. Because Morphy had been ill, it was agreed that…
Henri Baucher was one of eight opponents of Paul Morphy during his blindfold match in Café de la Régence. Very few information was known about…
On November the 1st, I was walking in Paris and went to 161 rue Saint Honoré, where the Café de la Régence was located when…
You all know that White always plays first in chess. But did you know that this has not always been the case?
Discover the history of the first move in chess in this article.
Monsieur Doazan appears in Frederick Edge’s book , page 157: Gabriel Eloi Doazan was publishing columns in French chess magazines like La Régence. From the…