“Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy,” according to American chess Grandmaster Andrew Soltis. Morphy was a child chess ...

including an Historical Account of Clubs, Biographical Sketches of Famous Players, and Various Information and Anecdote relating to the Noble Game of Chess. By Paul Morphy’s late Secretary. New York : ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – A new “Big Kahuna” of New Orleans chess is crowned at the 42nd annual Paul Morphy Memorial Chess Tournament. The top area chess players went head to head, putting Twist reporter ...

When “The Queen’s Gambit” became all the rage on Netflix last year, chess saw a massive jump in popularity and people became fascinated with its history and champions. But few may realize one of the ...

In my column 'Champion born this month', today I have the pleasure of presenting a beautiful game by a champion who can be called William Shakespeare of Chess. Let us see what some 'all time greats' ...

Paul Morphy was a 19th-century New Orleans chess prodigy who was the de facto world chess champion during much of his short life. He rarely lost when he played throughout Europe and the United States.

As near as I can tell, it's one of those hiccoughs of a street, maybe eight blocks long, sliced by cross streets named for now-forgotten civic heroes: Castiglione, D'Abadie, O'Reilly, Onzaga. Its name ...