William Lombardy, 1961

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February 23 1961

The Lewiston Daily Sun, Lewiston, Maine, Thursday, February 23, 1961

International Chess Player Visits Colby
Waterville (AP)—William Lombardy, first board player on the U.S. Student chess team which won the 1960 world championship in Leningrad will give a simultaneous exhibition and lecture at Colby College Sunday.
Lombardy, 24 of Bronx, N.Y. has represented the U.S. in numerous international events, including the 1958 and 1960 chess Olympics. He won the world junior championship in 1957 and finished second to teen-age phenom Bobby Fischer in the recent U.S. individual championship in New York.

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February 27 1961

Biddeford-Saco Journal, Biddeford, Maine, Monday, February 27, 1961

Chess at Colby
Waterville (AP)—U.S. Grandmaster William Lombardy won 27 games and drew three Sunday in a simultaneous chess exhibition at Colby College.
The 24-year-old Bronx, N. Y. grandmaster was held to a draw by Larry Eldredge of Portland. He also gave draws to his youngest opponent, 7-year-old Larry Eldridge Jr. of Portland, and to the only member of the fair sex participating, Miss Sue Freeman, a Colby student.

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May 28 1961

The Star-Ledger, Newark, New Jersey, Sunday, May 28, 1961

Lombardy Gains in 6 Nation Chess
Zurich, Switzerland (AP) — William Lombardy, 24-year-old chess grand master from Boston, won his first round game in the Six-Nation Chess Tournament which opened yesterday. Using the Sicilian defense, Lombardy defeated Dieter Keller, the Swiss champion, after 35 moves.
Edgar Walther defeated Milan Matulovic in 37 moves. All other first round matches were adjourned, to be completed tomorrow. ★

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William Lombardy, 1957

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1957

Chess prodigy Bobby Fischer and William Lombardy playing chess in the home of a mentor, Jack Collins.

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August 03 1957

World Junior Chess Championship, Toronto, Canada. Original b/w photographer, unknown. For fair use, all credits must be kept intact. Color photo version created by the developer (me, yours truly) of https://best-in-chess.blogspot.com/p/william-lombardy.html

World Junior Championship
William Lombardy (U.S.) won the 1957 World Junior Championship, played Aug. 3-Aug. 17 in Toronto, scoring a perfect 11-0. Mathias Gerusel (West Germany) was runner-up with 9-2, and A. K. Jongsma (Holland) came third with 8½-2½. The other scores were V. Selimanov (USSR), 8-3; R. Cardoso (Philippines), 6½-4½; R. Hallerod (Sweden), 5-6; Francois Jobin (Canada-Quebec), 4½-6½; Jorge Aldrete (Mexico), 4-7; T. O. Makelainen (Finland), 3½-7½; B. Rabinowitz (S. Africa), 2½-8½; I. M. Bahgat (Egypt), 2-9; and Peter Bates (Canada-Toronto), 1½-9½.

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August 20 1957

U.S. Student Chess Team: Departing for the World Student Team Tournament at Reykjavik, the U.S. team members pause for a moment on the steps to the Icelandic Airlines flight. Front row, left to right, Edmar Mednis and William Lombardy; rear row, Arthur Feuerstein, Anthony Saidy, and Robert Sobel. Original b/w photo from Aug. 20, 1957, issue of Chess Life magazine. For fair use, all credits must be kept intact. Color photo version created by the developer (me, yours truly) of https://best-in-chess.blogspot.com/p/arthur-feuerstein.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/us/arthur-feuerstein-dead.html

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William Lombardy, 1958

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October 11 1958

New York Times, New York, New York, Saturday, October 11, 1958

U.S. Paired With Soviet Team In First Round of Title Chess
Lombardy Takes Reshevsky's Place Against Botvinnik in No. 1 Match
The remainder of the twelve teams that will compete in the championship round of the international chess tournament at Munich were decided last night when the adjourned games from the eighth and ninth rounds were played, according to a report from Germany.
Three teams from each of the four sections of preliminary competition qualified to play for the title held by the Soviet Union.
With the preliminaries completed, the draw was made and the United States and the U.S.S.R. were paired for the first round today.
Because Samuel Reshevsky, an Orthodox Jew, does not play on the Sabbath, the defenders were asked to let his game with Mikhail Botvinnik, the world titleholder, begin after sundown.
This was denied. Consequently, the No. 1 place on the United States team will be taken by William Lombardy, a 20-year-old star from City College, and holder of the world junior title.
The Russians again finished at the top in their division, the first, while the United States was half a point below Spain in the second. Argentina set the pace in Section 3 and Czechoslovakia barely outpointed Yugoslavia in Section 4.
Final totals of those that qualified:
Section 1—Soviet Union 27-5; Bulgaria, 21½-10½; Austria, 21-11.
Section 2—Spain, 23½-8½; United States, 23-9; West Germany 22½-9½.
Section 3—Argentina, 23-9; East Germany, 21-11; England, 20-12.
Section 4—Czechoslovakia, 25-7; Yugoslavia, 24-8; Switzerland, 20-12.
The individual records of the five players who represented the United States show that Larry Evans, Nicolas Rossolimo and Lombardy bore the brunt of the fighting. Arranged in the order of the boards they occupied the eight matches, the figures were:
Samuel Reshevsky, 1½-1½; William Lombardy, 5½-2½; Arthur B. Bisguier, 4-3; Larry Evans, 6½-1½; Nicolas Rossolimo, 5½-½.
The Soviet Union's figures:
Mikhail Botvinnik, 3½-1½; Vassily Smyslov, 4-1; Paul Keres, 4½-½; David Bronstein, 4½-½; Mikhail Tal, 5½-½; Tigran Petrosian, 5-1.
Lombardy played the following brilliant game at Board No. 1 against Finland.

William Lombardy vs Eero Einar Book
Munich Olympiad qual-2 (1958), Munich FRG, rd 4, Oct-04
Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation (B90) 1-0

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William Lombardy, 1969

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January 20 1969

January 20, 1969. Ex-World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik of the Soviet Union and William Lombardy, U.S.A., in the 6th round of the Hoogovens tournament. Mikhail Botvinnik vs William Lombardy Hoogovens (1969), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 6, Jan-20 English Opening: Symmetrical Variation. General (A30) 1-0 https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1032828

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William Lombardy, 2017

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October 16 2017

William Lombardy 16 Oct 2017, Mon The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com

Mr. Lombardy, pointing, observed chess matches near his home in New York in 2016.

William Lombardy, 79, chess grandmaster turned priest 16 Oct 2017, Mon The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com

William Lombardy, 79, chess grandmaster turned priest
By Dylan Loeb McClain
NEW YORK TIMES
NEW YORK - William J. Lombardy, who was one of the most talented and promising chess players of his generation, winning titles and accolades while he was still a teenager, but who all but gave up the game at the height of his career to become a priest, died Friday in Martinez, Calif. He was 79.
His son, Raymond, confirmed the death. Mr. Lombardy, who was born in the Bronx and had long lived in New York City, collapsed and died suddenly while staying with a friend in Martinez, his son said. The cause had not been determined.
Mr. Lombardy was the first American to win the World Junior Chess Championship doing so with a perfect score, a feat that has never been duplicated and he led the United States to victory over the Soviet Union in the 1960 World Student Team Championship, beating Boris Spassky, the future world champion. He was later named a grandmaster, the World Chess Federation's highest title.
“His abilities were native, with a natural talent,” Anthony Saidy an international master who played with Lombardy on the top American teams in the 1950s and '60s, told The New York Times in 2016. “He always seemed to drag his matches out so long, getting out of jams until his opponent couldn't.”
But he came of age in the shadow of Bobby Fischer, the phenomenon out of Brooklyn six years his junior. Virtually all the sponsorship money and support available for American players went to Fischer.
Raymond Lombardy said his father had felt that if Fischer had not come along, he might have become world champion himself. But Mr. Lombardy was not resentful of Fischer, with whom Lombardy had an almost brotherly relationship, the son said. “He was not jealous,” he said.
Fischer was not the only impediment to an even more successful chess career for Mr. Lombardy, however. Brought up in the Roman Catholic faith, he had a competing interest — his church.
William James Joseph Lombardy was born on Dec. 4, 1937. Though he would be known as Bill in both his personal and professional life, he disliked the name, his son said. His father, Raymond, of Italian heritage, was a supervisor for the Savarin restaurant chain, and his mother, Stella, with Polish roots, was a beautician.
Though both his parents worked, the family struggled to pay the rent living in a less-than-adequate apartment in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. Bill Lombardy, while attending St. Athanasius School in the Bronx, slept in a room that had little insulation.
“I think we could have stored meat in there like a refrigerator,” he was quoted as saying in the 1974 book “My Seven Chess Prodigies,” by the renowned American chess coach John W. Collins, who taught Mr. Lombardy informally for many years. (Fischer was another of his students.)
No one in the Lombardy family played chess, but when Bill was 9, a 10-year-old neighbor, who played the game but who always lost, decided to teach him. The neighbor wanted a sparring partner whom he could beat. In a couple of years, Bill was already showing unusual talent and playing regularly, often in city parks.
He went on to graduate from La Salle Academy, a Catholic school in Lower Manhattan; attended City College for three years; and later enrolled at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers with the intention of becoming a Roman Catholic priest. He was ordained in 1967 and remained in the priesthood until the late 1970s.
Most great players start out as tacticians, always looking to attack, before they evolve into strategists, plotting a long-range path to victory from the very first move. Mr. Lombardy was a strategic player, and a good one, from the beginning.
At the 1960-61 US championship, he finished second to Fischer, qualifying him for the 1962 Interzonal in Stockholm, the next step on the road to the world championship. But instead of entering the tournament, Mr. Lombardy, by then enrolled at St. Joseph's Seminary, decided to pursue ordination.
He continued to compete, though intermittently, for the next 20 years. He won or tied for first in the 1963, 1965, and 1975 US Open Championships, and he played on US national teams in the 1968, 1970, 1974, and 1976 Chess Olympiads, winning an individual gold medal and three individual silver medals, all as a reserve. But for all intents and purposes, the serious part of his chess career was over.
In 1972, when Fischer qualified to play a match for the world championship in Reykjavik, Iceland, against Spassky, the reigning champion, he asked Mr. Lombardy to assist him by analyzing adjourned games. In the Fischer-Spassky event, which became known as the Match of the Century, 14 of the 21 games were adjourned. Fischer won and was crowned world champion.
Mr. Lombardy eventually left the priesthood, his son said, because he had lost faith in the Catholic Church, which he believed was too concerned with amassing wealth. Soon after, while competing in a tournament in the Netherlands, he met and married a Dutch woman, Louise van Valen, who moved to Manhattan to live with Mr. Lombardy in his two-bedroom apartment at the Stuyvesant Town complex. Mr. Lombardy had moved there in 1977 to help care for his friend and coach Mr. Collins, who died in 2001.
The couple's son, Raymond, was born in 1984. The marriage ended in divorce in 1992 after Mr. Lombardy's wife had returned to the Netherlands with their son.
Besides the son, Mr. Lombardy leaves an older sister, Natalie Pekala.
He had been staying with friends since he had fallen on hard times and been evicted from his apartment at Stuyvesant Town for being behind in his rent an episode that was the subject of an article in The Times in 2016.
Though he was a good student in school, Mr. Lombardy did not like to study chess from books; he preferred to hone his skills through practice. “There is nothing like plenty of experience,” he told Collins, “doing it on the board, getting your head knocked about a bit, and learning from every win, draw, and loss.”

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Martin Ayala, 1911

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April 16 1911

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Sunday, April 16, 1911

Off For South America.
Capablanca En Route to Buenos Ayres After Entertaining Europe's Chess Centers.

Jose R. Capablanca, the Cuban chess champion, according to advices from the other side, sailed from Cherbourg for Buenos Ayres in the Argentine Republic on Friday. The hero of San Sebastian has been engaged by the Buenos Ayres Chess Club tor a month, and he will play against the leading experts of the republic in single match games, and in addition will give exhibitions of his skill at peripatetic chess and lecture on the theory of the game. Last year Dr. Emanuel Lasker visited the South American metropolis and the enthusiasts there will have an opportunity of comparing the styles of the two masters, who are likely to meet for the world's championship at no distant date.
South America is developing a keen enthusiasm for chess, which has spread to the republics of Venezuela and Columbia. President Gomez of Venezuela has offered a golden cup for a telegraphic match, which is now in progress, between Caracas and Bogota, and Dr. Restrepo, president of the republic of Colombia, will donate an object of art which is to go to the losing side. Three games are to be played altogether, one at a time, moves being exchanged under a time limit of twenty-four hours. Martin Ayala, formerly member of the Manhattan Chess Club, for the championship of which he tied one year, is on the Caracas team, together with Dr. Rafael Ruiz, vice president of the Caracas club; Simon Soublette, Rafael Pittaluga and Antonio Toro Key. The players representing Bogota are Dr. Antonio Jose Caro, Dr. Restrepo Tamayo, Guiliermo Carizosa and Manuel Caro. The first game, at last accounts, had progressed to the twenty-ninth move, with the position practically even.
After visiting Paris, Jose R. Capablanca accepted the invitations of the chess clubs of Frankfort, and Nuremberg, giving remarkable exhibitions of simultaneous play in each case. At the Anderssen Chess Club of Frankfurt he conducted twenty-three games, and in the very fast time of two and one-half hours he won nineteen, drew three and lost one. The Cuban champion offered to replay all of the twenty-three games from memory, but after replaying the moves of the game he lost without a mistake, the spectators declared themselves satisfied. Equally sensational was his performance at the Tarrasch Club of Nuremberg, where he was pitted against thirty-three opponents, making a score of twenty-seven wins, one loss and three drawn games in three and one-quarter hours. A notable feat in simultaneous chess was also performed by A. K. Rubinstein. Russian champion and the only master to win from Capablanca at San Sebastian, at the Cafe Kerkau, in Berlin. Rubinstein conducted forty games at one and the same time, and of these he won thirty-six, drew three and lost one, a performance, especially in view of the strength of his opponents, which ranks with the best ever made.

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Martin Ayala, 1909

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January 27 1909

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Wednesday, January 27, 1909

Venezuelan Beaten.
General Ayala's Son Blundered in Important Chess Game.
Martin Ayala, a son of General Ramon Ayala, vice president of Venezuela during the first term of Castro, missed his opportunity Monday night of clinching first place in the annual championship tournament of the Manhattan Chess Club, by losing his adjourned game with Leon Rosen, when a draw with the French expert would have given him a clear lead over Otto Roething, with whom he is now tied. Shortly after resuming play, last night, Ayala, in opposing rooks on the king's file, was forced, after an exchange, to withdraw the support of his king's rook, which latter piece was lost in consequence. Rosen, who had the white pieces in a king's gambit declined, wound up the game smartly and expeditiously.
The winner, by scoring both his remaining games, may yet tie Ayala and Roething for first place, the respective totals of the three leaders being as follows: Ayala and Rosen, each 8 to 3. Until he encountered Roething and Rosen, both of whom defeated him at the eleventh hour, Ayala had a score of 7 wins and 2 drawn games, comprising victories over such players as Delmar, Field, Hanham, Lichtenberg, Rosebault, Rosenbaum and Rosenfeld, beside drawn games with Beihoff and Pulvermacher.
The Ayala family has planned to go back to Venezuela shortly. General Ayala being one of many political refugees to whom the new regime at home has guaranteed a safe return, now that Castro has ceased to be the dominant power in the South American Republic. The younger Ayala's early departure, in fact, may interfere with the completion of the tournament, inasmuch as a supplementary series would be necessary to play off the tie between him and Roething and, possibly, Rosen, in case the latter is successful in his remaining games.

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January 31 1909

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Sunday, January 31, 1909

Ayala Sails For Home.
M. Ayala, who tied with O. Roething for first place in the championship tournament of the Manhattan Chess Club, sailed for his home in Caracas on board the steamship Prins Maurits, Friday afternoon. With him was his father, General Ramon Ayala, former vice president of Venezuela.

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March 18 1909

The Sun, New York, New York, Thursday, March 18, 1909

Martin Ayala, who tied for first place in the annual championship tournament of the Manhattan Chess Club, and who has returned to his home in Caracas, has arranged a match of seven games up with Carlos P. Gentil of La Guayra, holder of the chess championship of Venezuela. Play will begin in April.

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Newell William Banks, 1937

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November 25 1937

Banks Undefeated In Checker and Chess Tests Here 25 Nov 1937, Thu The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) Newspapers.com

Banks Undefeated In Checker and Chess Tests Here
Courier-Journal Photo.
Newell W. Banks of Detroit, for many year one of the ablest checker and chess players in the world, was undefeated in exhibitions at the Hermitage Hotel last night. Blindfolded, he won 3 and drew one of 4 checker games; won 8 and drew 4 of 12 games with “eyes open” and won 5 and drew one of 6 chess games. The games in each series were played simultaneously.
The picture shows Mr. Banks, blindfolded, engaging Leon Rudd (left), J. W. Couch (center) and A. B. Barton at checkers, while J. Bruce Clark (left) and W. W. Pulley look on. Those who drew at checkers were Mr. Clark, Mr. Rudd, R. P. Summers and Edward Petz. Richard W. Shields gained the only draw at chess.

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Newell William Banks, 1921

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August 26 1921

Newell William Banks, Passport
“I am about to go abroad temporarily; and I intend to return to the United States with 6 months with the purpose of residing and performing the duties of citizenship therein; and I desire a passport for use in visiting the countries hereinafter named for the following purpose: British Isles; Playing a checker match for the World's Championship. I intend to leave the United States from the port of New York sailing on board the Aquitania on November 15, 1921.”

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Walter Fedor Davis, 1942

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1942

1942, Walter Fedor Davis, Military Registration Card

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Ibrahim Monir Bahgat, 1981

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June 11 1981

The Index, Hermitage, Missouri, Thursday, June 11, 1981

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Ibrahim Monir Bahgat, 1979

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April 12 1979

The Index, Hermitage, Missouri, Thursday, April 12, 1979

Hermitage School Employs Principal
The Hermitage Board of Education has employed a principal to serve all grades K-12 for the 1979-80 school year. Dr. Donald L. Payne, the present principal will become superintendent of the Hermitage R-IV District on July 1, 1979.
The newly employed principal is Ibraham Bahgat. Mr. Bahgat is presently principal of grades K-12 at Chilhowee. He will assume his duties at Hermitage R-IV on August 1.
Mr. Bahgat attended high school in Houston, Texas. He received both the B. A. and M. A. Degree from Texas Southern University in Houston. He has done further graduate work at the University of Missouri Campus in Kansas City, and at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville.
Mr. Bahgat taught in the Kansas City Public School System for three years, but has taught and been in administration work in rural Missouri schools for the past eight years. He prefers working in the smaller rural community where the atmosphere is more conducive to education and growth, both academic and spiritual. Also, Mr. Bahgat believes this enables the faculty, students, and community to know each other well and will foster a spirit of cooperation that will enable them to reach common goals and better prepare to meet and cope with life situations.
Mr. Bahgat's hobbies include traveling and sports. He is a master of both judo and karate and he has qualified for the final national tournaments in both sports for the last seven years. Mr. Bahgat says he is looking forward to many new friends and having a wonderful experience in Hermitage.

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September 13 1979

The Index, Hermitage, Missouri, Thursday, September 13, 1979

New Teachers
New teachers at the Hermitage School this year include (l-r) Ibrahim Bahgat, principal; Peggy Walker, home economics; Barbara Ballew, librarian; Kenneth Branson, grades 5-6; Claude Martin, industrial arts and driver's training; Dale Felder, speech therapist, Vicki Ellison, English; speech and drama; and Eleanor Sample, first grade (not pictured).

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Ibrahim Monir Bahgat, 1977

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1977

1977, Abe Bahgat, Principal, Stet High School, Norborne, Carroll County, Missouri

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Paul Morphy, 1865

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January 13 1865

The Courier and Argus Dundee, Tayside, Scotland Friday, January 13, 1865

Mr. Paul Morphy, the celebrated chess champion, has entered the American bar, with the intention to practice.

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January 15 1865

The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, January 15, 1865

Chess by Herr Loewenthal
The publication you mention has not yet appeared. Mr. Morphy has retired from the Chess world and is now devoting himself to the law.

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February 06 1865

Daily Evening News Fall River, Massachusetts Monday, February 06, 1865

Paul Morphy, the famous chess player, who ⛔Political “dog whistle” sympathized with the rebellion at its earlier stages like many other Southerners, has seen the error of his ways, and is now a good Union man. He is practicing law in New Orleans.

*This claim was already refuted numerous times through contemporary, authoritative sources.

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February 10 1865

Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois Friday, February 10, 1865

Paul Morphy, the chess player, is practicing law in New Orleans.

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February 11 1865

Richmond Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia, Saturday, February 11, 1865

The celebrated chess player, Paul Morphy, has settled in Illinois. His present avocation is the collection of claims in the United States and State Courts.

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February 16 1865

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York Thursday, February 16, 1865

Persistent False Rumors and Allegations Against Paul Morphy, Reprinted in Northern Newspapers

Paul Morphy, who when the rebellion broke out, ⛔Political “dog whistle” joined the Confederate army at New Orleans, but subsequently retired and went to Paris, has lately changed his mind, and having taken the oath of allegiance, has commenced business in a town in Southern Illinois, as Government Claim Agent. He has almost given up Chess.

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February 18 1865

The Idaho World Idaho City, Idaho Saturday, February 18, 1865

Paul Morphy, the celebrated chess-player, has calmly settled down into the practice of the law at New Orleans. He still indulges in his passion for chess, but it may safely be said that it is next to impossible for him to find a competitor worthy of a display of his talent.

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March 05 1865

The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, March 05, 1865

Chess — (a) This line of attack is now generally in vogue, Morphy adopted the move in his various European contests with great success. The move has indisputably the means of affording wider scope for the attack than any other the first player may choose to adopt.

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April 02 1865

The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Sunday, April 02, 1865

The New Reading Rooms — The latest intelligence by telegraph, and private correspondence; the arrivals and receipts, departures and clearances, by sea and river, and all such information as will be found of general interest will be daily posted on the bulletin boards. In addition to all this a splendid suite of chess rooms will form no inconsiderable attraction, not only to those initiated in the mysteries of that beautiful game, but to all classes who are familiar with the names of Paul Morphy, and the other brilliant chess players of this his native city.

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April 16 1865

The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Sunday, April 16, 1865

The Judges of The Supreme Court of Louisiana — “George Strawbridge and Alonzo Morphy succeeded Eustis and Rost. The former served from August 31, 1839, to October 31, 1839; and the latter from August 31, 1839, to March 18, 1846. In 1840 the Judges of the Supreme Court were increased to five; Martin, Chief Justice; Associates, Bullard, Morphy, Simon and Garland.

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July 06 1865

The Daily Milwaukee News Milwaukee, Wisconsin Sunday, July 09, 1865

The steamer Star of the Union, from New Orleans, the 1st inst., arrived to-night. Among her passengers is Paul Morphy.

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July 09 1865

The New York Times New York, New York Sunday, July 09, 1865

Passengers Arrived. — Paul Morphy.

Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan Sunday, July 09, 1865

The steamer ‘Star of the Union,’ from New Orleans 1st, arrived to-night. Among her passengers is Col. Morphy. (⛔Political “dog whistle” “Colonel” Morphy?)

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July 10 1865

The Springfield Daily Republican, Springfield, Massachusetts, Monday, July 10, 1865

The steamer Star of the Union, from New Orleans the 1st, arrived at New York on Saturday. Among the passengers was Paul Morphy, the chess-player, who has been one of the ⛔Political “dog whistle” rankest of secessionists.

*This claim was already refuted numerous times through contemporary, authoritative sources.

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July 11 1865

The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Maryland Tuesday, July 11, 1865 — Paul Morphy, the noted chess-player, is on a visit to New York.

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July 12 1865

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, July 12, 1865

Among the passengers from New Orleans by the steamship Evening Star, arrived to-day, is the famous chess player, Paul Morphy. He is in excellent health, and talks about going abroad.

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July 13 1865

National Republican, Washington, District of Columbia, Thursday, July 13, 1865

PERSONAL.
PAUL MORPHY, the chess-player, who affected ⛔Political “dog whistle” rebeldom until JEFF DAVIS was checkmated⛔, arrived in the city to-day.

*This claim was already refuted numerous times through contemporary, authoritative sources.

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July 14 1865

Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Friday, July 14, 1865

Paul Morphy, the celebrated chess player, has turned up at Washington.
⛔Political “dog whistle” He has been a *rebel during the war.⛔

*This claim was already refuted numerous times through contemporary, authoritative sources.

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July 15 1865

St. Louis Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, Missouri, Saturday, July 15, 1865

Ex-Governor Tod, of Ohio, and Paul Morphy, the chess player from ⛔Political “dog whistle” rebeldom, are here. The latter has been snubbed by those of his former acquaintances here who remained loyal while he adhered to secession.⛔

*This claim was already refuted numerous times through contemporary, authoritative sources.

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July 17 1865

The Progress-Index Petersburg, Virginia Monday, July 17, 1865

General Harry Heth, Paul Morphy, the chess player, Ben Ficklin, Capt. Hugh Stanard, Major Cole and Capt. Gibson, son of the late Professor Charles Bell Gibson, are in New York. Mildeburger Smith, formerly proprietor of the American Hotel, in Richmond, has returned from California, and has taken charge of the office of the New York Hotel.

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July 20 1865

The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Thursday, July 20, 1865

Our accomplished young townsman, Paul Morphy, the chess king, is announced as having arrived at New York on the 8th inst.

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July 21 1865

The Charleston Daily Courier, Charleston, South Carolina, Friday, July 21, 1865

PAUL MORPHY is at the New York Hotel. If any one wants to be checkmated he can be accommodated by calling on the redoubtable PAUL, and can have the satisfaction of knowing before the game begins that MORPHY will score it.

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July 25 1865

Advertiser and Register Mobile, Alabama Tuesday, July 25, 1865

Paul Morphy, the renowned chess-player was in Washington last week.

Daily Missouri Republican, St. Louis, Missouri, Tuesday, July 25, 1865

PAUL MORPHY, the celebrated chess-player, is in New York, having arrived there a week or two ago, from New Orleans. ⛔Political “dog whistle” He was a *secessionist as long as the war lasted⛔, but is now disposed to accept things as they are and let by-gones be by-gones. He is now a frequenter of the New York Chess Club Rooms, and is winner in nearly every case, even with great odds against him.

*This claim was already refuted numerous times through contemporary, authoritative sources.

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July 26 1865

The New York Times New York, New York Wednesday, July 26, 1865

Hotel Thief. — Thomas Bill, a hotel sneak-thief, pleaded guilty to stealing two pairs of boots, the property of Paul Morphy, the celebrated chess player, from the New York Hotel, and was sent to the Penitentiary.

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July 28 1865

The Morning Democrat, Davenport, Iowa, Friday, July 28, 1865

Paul Morphy, the chess player, is in New York, playing chess with his old associates. It will be remembered that he was a ⛔Political “dog whistle” bitter secessionist, and on a recent visit to Washington his former friends let him know that they remembered that fact, by “cutting” him so dead that he left in disgust, completely “checkmated.”

*This claim was already refuted numerous times through contemporary, authoritative sources.

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July 30 1865

The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, July 30, 1865

Chess by Herr Loewenthal. — (a) A favourite move with Morphy; Anderssen here advises Black to reply with Kt to R 4th, as in the text.

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August 03 1865

Baton Rouge Tri-Weekly Gazette and Comet Baton Rouge, Louisiana Thursday, August 03, 1865

Paul Morphy, the celebrated chess-player is in New York, having arrived there a week or two ago, from New Orleans. He was a ⛔Political “dog whistle” secessionist as long as the war lasted, but is new disposed to accept things as they are and let by-gones be by-gones. He is now a frequenter of the New York Chess Club Rooms, and is winner in nearly every case, even with great odds against him.

*This claim was already refuted numerous times through contemporary, authoritative sources.

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August 13 1865

The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, August 13, 1865

Chess by Herr Loewenthal-Paul Morphy In New York. — We learn from the Evening Bulletin that Mr. Paul Morphy recently arrived in New York from New Orleans. He paid a visit to the Rooms of the New York Chess Club, and played several games with the strongest members of this Society. Mr. Morphy being the winner in nearly every case, even with great odds against him. It is not stated how long he intends to remain in New York.

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August 15 1865

The San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, California Tuesday, August 15, 1865 — Extraordinary Memories - Morphy and other eminent chess players have recently given instances of their extraordinary memories.

The Times-Democrat New Orleans, Louisiana Tuesday, August 15, 1865 — Paul Morphy is about to publish, in one volume, the whole of his many games of chess, with notes on each by himself.

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August 16 1865

Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan Wednesday, August 16, 1865

Paul Morphy, the champion chess-player, has returned to New York, and is preparing an annotated volume of his games. The rumor that he was on Beauregard's staff is stated to be untrue.

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August 22 1865

The New York Times New York, New York Tuesday, August 22, 1865

Mr. Paul Morphy, the eminent chess-player, arrived in town yesterday.

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August 28 1865

Cleveland Daily Leader Cleveland, Ohio Monday, August 28, 1865

Paul Morphy. — There is good news from the chess world. Paul Morphy is back in New York again, and is preparing an annotated volume of his games. It will be the standard work in chess literature. The rumor that during the rebellion Mr. Morphy was on Beauregard's staff was of course false. He never was on horseback in his life, and never went back on the flag. He is no such a man. When the rebellion broke out (like a species of political small-pox) the great chess king was in Paris. It was there that the aforesaid rumor originated. Morphy checkmated it at once by going to the American legation and taking the oath of allegiance. It is said to be the only oath he ever took in his life—but that is his own affair.—New York Saturday Press.

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September 03 1865

The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Sunday, September 03, 1865

The Saturday Press says that Paul Morphy never sympathized with the South; that he was in Paris when the war broke out, and at once took the oath of allegiance at the office of the American Consul. Mr. Morphy was in New Orleans when the war commenced, and did not leave the city, except for a brief period, during which he was in Virginia, till some time after its capture.

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September 05 1865

Burlington Daily Times Burlington, Vermont Tuesday, September 05, 1865 — Personal. Paul Morphy, the champion chess player, is in New York preparing an annotated volume of his games. The Saturday Press says Paul never sympathized with the South; that he was in Paris when the war broke out, and at once took the oath of allegiance at the office of the American Consul.

Buffalo Weekly Express Buffalo, New York Tuesday, September 05, 1865 — INQUISITION: Paul Morphy, the chess king, is in New York. His friends deny that he ever was a Rebel, but say that he took an oath of allegiance to the Union at the American Legation in Paris, early during the war.

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September 08 1865

The Vermont Transcript Saint Albans, Vermont Friday, September 08, 1865 — Paul Morphy, the champion chess player, is in New York preparing an annotated volume of his games. The Saturday Press says Paul never sympathized with the South; that he was at Paris when the war broke out, and at once took the oath of allegiance at the office of the American Consul.

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The Standard London, Greater London, England Friday, September 08, 1865 — Paul Morphy, the chief of the chess-players, is now in New York.

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September 14 1865

The Evansville Daily Journal Evansville, Indiana Thursday, September 14, 1865 — Paul Morphy. The Round Table states authoritatively that Paul Morphy the chess king, was never on the staff of General Beauregard, and was never a secessionist nor a southern sympathizer.

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September 26 1865

Advertiser and Register Mobile, Alabama Tuesday, September 26, 1865 — We understand that our fellow-citizen, Paul Morphy, will shortly publish a critical work on Chess, with Illustration and special references to the great contests on “the checkered field” which have already become historical. Mr. M. is now, we believe, in New York for the purpose of selecting a publisher and preparing the necessary illustrations.— [N.O. Times]

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October 07 1865

The Daily Phoenix Columbia, South Carolina Saturday, October 07, 1865 — Paul Morphy is preparing his chess-book in New York.

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October 16 1865

The Leeds Mercury Leeds, West Yorkshire, England Monday, October 16, 1865 — Mr. Paul Morphy, the celebrated chess-player, has returned to New York from Paris, and it is his present intention to prepare an annotated volume of his most successful chess games. Our informant says, it must not be inferred from this that Mr. Morphy has given up the practice of the law, as he prides himself more upon his proficiency in that than in chess. He was for some time a member of one of the first law firms in New Orleans, and will shortly open an office in New York.

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October 18 1865

The Morning Post London, Greater London, England Wednesday, October 18, 1865 — Dublin Chess Congress — The clever professor Herr Steinitz, has repeated his performance of playing several games at the same time, and without the aid of that sense—sight—which, to chess-players as a class, is the most needful to be exercised; and wonderful and successful as was Herr Steinitz' previous performance as week ago, he on last Saturday eclipsed all his former efforts in blindfold chess. He played against five very good amateurs, and did not lose a single game, winning four and drawing one, after about seven hours of unceasing mental concentration. To given an instance of the perfect command his mental vision has of all the varying positions on the respective boards, one of the five amateurs mentioned to him that he was unavoidably compelled to go out for an hour to dine, to which Herr Steinitz at once consented; but the amateur might as well not have come back, for the German's skill and retentive memory won the day, notwithstanding the delay and interruption. We are aware that, although Herr Steinitz's feats never until recent years have been surpassed, not even by the renowned Philidor, who never went beyond three games at the same time, yet he has been excelled lately by the German (Gaulsen), the Englishman (Blackburne), and the world-famed American (Paul Morphy), not in excellence of blindfold play, but only as to the number of games played. But when we take into consideration that Herr Steinitz has not hitherto been known to fame as a blindfold player, and that he has won his spurs so successfully…

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November 15 1865

The Times-Democrat New Orleans, Louisiana Wednesday, November 15, 1865 — Exchange Newsrooms — “…An interesting feature of the occasion was the reorganization of the Chess Club by the election of the following officers: Paul Morphy, Esq., President; P.N. Strong, Esq., Vice President; Chas. A. Maurian, Secretary; A.E. Blackmar, Treasurer. The chess rooms are a most attractive adjunct to the newsrooms, and we are glad to learn that Mr. Overall is meeting with the encouragement which his useful enterprise deserves.”

The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, December 03, 1865 — “Chess by Herr Loewenthal” — “Except in his match with Mr. Loewenthal, Mr. Morphy contested all his casual games in England—as far as we are aware—for honour only.”

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December 10 1865

The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, December 10, 1865 — Chess by Herr Loewenthal — “(a) This move was first adopted by Morphy. Curiously enough there is no mention made of it in the recently published works in Germany.”

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December 15 1865

The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Maryland Friday, December 15, 1865 — The original chess club of New Orleans has been reorganized, and Paul Morphy chosen president.

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