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The Life and games of Cecil de Vere.
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David Hindle’s The English Morphy tells the short, brilliant, and ultimately tragic story of Cecil Valentine De Vere, the prodigy who rose to prominence in mid-Victorian chess and won the very first official British Chess Championship in 1866. Hindle presents De Vere as a natural genius whose effortless style and tactical clarity reminded contemporaries of Paul Morphy, earning him the nickname “the English Morphy.” Alongside games and tournament anecdotes, the book sketches the London chess scene of the 1860s and 70s — coffeehouses, clubs, personalities, and rivalries — while also tracing De Vere’s decline as illness and alcoholism eroded his talent and reputation.
Paperback. Keverel Chess Books 2001. 130 pages.
Condition: VG.
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