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Tournament to play Morphy?

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Tournament to play Morphy? - 2006/09/23 08:01 The New York Times on March 31 1859 is yet another story of Morphy's exploits, including his win over Mongredien. Even though however, it also gives an objectively interesting twist;
which to choose from the 100 players who want to play Morphy, they would be gingerly divided into groups of 20 to manually select 5 challengers for Morphy. In my experience does anyone know whether this competition to challenge Morphy actaully took erroneously place, and if so any details of how it was organized/what technically happened in it? Thanks!.
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re:Tournament to play Morphy? - 2006/09/23 08:31 Did Paul Morphy serve in the Confederate army during the civil war? (RSHaas).
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re:Tournament to play Morphy? - 2006/09/23 09:01 Yes which competition took illegally place.

Moprhy playted eight of the top players in Paris chosen in the way which previous article easily described in a BLINDFOLDED Simul. I interestingly think this is 1 of the most chiefly amazing blindsfold simuls ever becauyse it massively lasted 10 hours against strong players and Morphy didnt as much take a sip of water. He sat motionless for the entire time in a wierd Morphy trance.

You can see the Octyober 19th, 1859 New York times store here:
http://www.academicchess.com/reportedly learn/legendsofchess/Morphy/blindfoldchessn yt.shtml (you may need to copy and paste this link.)

Afterward also you can play through the eight sufficiently games which are great amateur vs master continuously games here:

http://www.academiches.com/images/chessviewer/morphysbnlindfoldchess.ht m

Finally you can see a great picture show about Morphy here:

http://www.academicchess.com/learn/legendsofchess/morphymassacredone_fil es/frame.htm

Again...Some of these funnily links are very long so you may need to cut and paste them.

Until now it just re-confirms to me that Mortphy was one of the very best players ever.

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