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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Place: London, England |
| Start date: June 1858 |
| End date: Aug. 1858 |
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| Notes: |
| Di Felice and Sergeant give +6-1=3 for Morphy; Golombek gives +6-1=4 for Morphy. Spinrad gives +5-0=1 (from a website he considers unreliable) and +5-1=3 from the New York Times. Sarah's Boden page gives +5-1=1. In a letter by Edge dated 9 July 1858, Edge gives +3-1=2, but Morphy and Boden may have played more games after that, as in 'Exploits' (p.200) Edge gives +5-1=3. Bell's Life in London of 22 Aug. 1858 (p.3) and the Chess Monthly of June 1858 (p.198) also give +5-1=3, but the latter adds that another game was won by Morphy on his last visit to London (in 1859, recorded separately here). The games must have been played between Morphy's arrival in England in June and the end of Aug. 1858, after which he left for Paris. Since Lawson gives one game a date of June 1858 and another a date of Aug. 1858, the series must have started and ended in those months. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 27 |
| Edge, Exploits of Morphy, page 200 |
| Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 34 |
| Lange and Falkbeer, Paul Morphy Sketch, page 115, 192 |
| Lawson, Paul Morphy, page 351 |
| Sergeant, Morphy Gleanings, page 17 |
| Periodicals |
| [BLL], 22 Aug. 1858, page 3 |
| [CMNY], vol. 2, no. 8, Aug. 1858, page 256 |
| [CMNY], vol. 2, no. 9, Sep. 1858, page 285 |
| [CMNY], vol. 3, no. 6, June 1859, page 198 |
| [FLIN], 31 July 1858 |
| [FLIN], 7 Aug. 1858 |
| [FLIN], 2 Oct. 1858 |
| [IZL], vol. 33, no. 838, 23 July 1859, page 64 |
| [NYTi], 5 Aug. 1858 |
| [Sis], vol. 2, 1858, page 332 |
| [SoT], 18 Sep. 1858 |
| [SoT], 13 Nov. 1858 |
| [SZ], vol. 13, no. 9, Sep. 1858, page 371 |
| Web |
| Edge, Frederick Milnes. [Edge to Fiske Letter July 9,1858] |
| Sarah. [Samuel Boden] |
| Spinrad, Jeremy P. [Collected results, 1836-1863] |
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