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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Place: New York |
| Start date: 8 Oct. 1857 |
| End date: 1857 |
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| Notes: |
| The Jan. 1858 issue of the Chess Monthly (p.30) gives a total score in New York of Morphy against Thompson as +8-0=0. Taking out +3-0=0 for their tournament games leaves +5-0=0 from offhand games, as also given by Sergeant. These games must have been played between Morphy's arrival in New York on 5 Oct. 1857 and 16 Nov. 1857, the date of a letter by Morphy (given by Lawson and Sarah's Morphy website) giving the +8-0=0 total. According to Lawson, the first of these was played on 8 Oct. 1857. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Lange and Falkbeer, Paul Morphy Sketch, page 54, 75 |
| Lawson, Paul Morphy, page 58, 78, 86 |
| Sergeant, Morphy Gleanings, page 14 |
| Periodicals |
| [CMNY], vol. 1, no. 12, Dec. 1857, page 383 |
| [CMNY], vol. 2, no. 1, Jan. 1858, page 30 |
| [NYTr], 8 Oct. 1857 |
| Web |
| Buck, C.A. [Paul Morphy: His Later Life] |
| Morphy, Paul. [A Letter from Morphy to Maurian, November 16, 1857] |
| Spinrad, Jeremy P. [Collected results, 1836-1863] |
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