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Paul Morphy The Pride and Sorrow of Chess

by David Lawson

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David McKay Company, New York, 1976, hardback, no dustjacket, 18,5x26 cm, xviii+424p., many  illustrations, 1314 grams, condition: very good, no inscriptions. 

Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess is the only full-length biography of Paul Morphy, the chess prodigy who launched United States participation in international chess and is still generally acknowledged as the greatest American chess player -with R.Fischer- of all time. But Morphy was more than a player. He was a shy, retiring lawyer who had been taught that such games were no way to make a living. The strain of his fame and the pull of his domineering family led Morphy to set another precedent: chess madness. Morphy's mental descent after retiring from chess became a part of his lore, made all the more magnanimous by a spate of twentieth-century examples. The Pride and Sorrow of Chess tells the full known story of the life of Paul Morphy, from his privileged upbringing in New Orleans to his dominance of the chess world, to the later tragedy of his demise.

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