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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Place: New Orleans |
| Start date: 1849 |
| End date: 1849 |
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| Notes: |
| According to D.W. Fiske (in The First American Chess Congress, p.505), Morphy played 'over fifty parties' vs. Rousseau in 1849 and 1850, winning 'fully nine-tenths'. Dawson gives years as 1848 and 1849. I have assumed fifty games, with score 45-5, but split between the two years. I have arbitrarily assigned 20 games to 1849 and thirty to 1850, with the same proportion of wins each year. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Fiske, First American Chess Congress, page 505 |
| Hillyer, Thomas Frère, page 43 |
| Lawson, Paul Morphy, page 22 |
| Periodicals |
| [CMNY], vol. 1, no. 12, Dec. 1857, page 382 |
| [CMNY], vol. 3, no. 1, Jan. 1859, page 27 |
| [ILN], vol. 33, no. 936, 18 Sep. 1858, page 255 |
| [IZL], vol. 31, no. 796, 2 Oct. 1858, page 222 |
| [Reg], vol. 3, no. 1, Jan. 1851, page 23 |
| Web |
| Buck, C.A. [Paul Morphy: His Later Life] |
| Harding, Tim. [The House of the Setting Sun], page 4 |
| Jones, Ernest. [The Problem of Paul Morphy] |
| Löwenthal, J.J. [Löwenthal's Memoir] |
| Sarah. [Morphy Obituary, New Orleans Times-Democrat] |
| Sarah. [Morphy's Early Games] |
| Sarah. [P.W.S. Reviews R.M.-V.] |
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