Joseph Henry Blackburne, 1907

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October 27 1907

Evening star, Washington, District of Columbia, Sunday, October 27, 1907

Chess Masters Compared.
Robert J. Buckley, an epigrammatic writer on chess topics, produces the following:
“Steinitz was highly imaginative and also accurate. So is Dr. Lasker. So was Morphy.
“Morphy was a revelation. Steinitz was a revolution. Lasker is an advance on Steinitz.”
He says of Morphy's strength as compared with later-day players:
“Morphy was a wonder. Whatever the masters of today may be they owe much to Morphy. Without Morphy there would have been no Steinitz nor Blackburne. But the chess of Morphy's day was not the chess of today. And since no man can estimate Morphy's strength as compared with that of Steinitz and Lasker, any conviction we may express can only be regarded as a sort of pious opinion varying with the temperament, taste, knowledge and judicial power of him who expresses it.”

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