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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Place: Philadelphia |
| Start date: 7 Nov. 1859 |
| End date: 14 Nov. 1859 |
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| Notes: |
| Reichhelm gives +2-0=1 for Morphy at Knight odds, following his 0-2 loss also at Knight odds a few days earlier, but this time stipulating that Thomas had to defend with 1...e5. Di Felice gives +2-0=1 without indicating any odds were given. Löwenthal, in the Era of 18 Dec. 1859 (p.13) and Fiske, in the Chess Monthly of Dec. 1859 (p.391), give a total of the two matches of +2-2=1, implying that the second was +2-0=1 also. Lawson, Kingston and Sarah's Morphy website give +2-0=0 on 7 Nov. and +1-0=1 on 14 Nov. 1859 and also say that Thomas had to defend with 1...e5. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 29 |
| Hilbert, Essays in American Chess History, page 96 |
| Hilbert, Tragic Life of Leonard, page 121 |
| Lawson, Paul Morphy, page 239, 240 |
| Reichhelm and Shipley, Chess in Philadelphia, page 8, 69 |
| Periodicals |
| [CMNY], vol. 3, no. 12, Dec. 1859, page 391 |
| [Era], vol. 22, no. 1108, 18 Dec. 1859, page 13 |
| Web |
| Kingston, Taylor. [Don't Bet the Farm or Scholar's Concern Tempers Stat-Freak's Delight], page 10 |
| Sarah. [The Returning Hero] |
| Spinrad, Jeremy P. [Collected results, 1836-1863] |
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