Poor Bobby, so talented, such a brilliant mind. It still bothers me that he ended the way that he did.

However, I can ALWAYS separate the man from his games. Bobby's games - for me - are like jewels that only grow brighter with age.

I liked LL Cool J’s:

# the COMPLETE NAME of that very <Count Isoard> - ATTENTION: the correct way of writing his family name is "Isoard" without the "u"!! -, namely --> <Count Marc Leon Bruno Joseph Gustave d'Isoard-Vauvenargue>;

# both the years of birth and death of <Count Marc Leon Bruno Joseph Gustave d'Isoard-Vauvenargue>, namely <1804-1883>.

THE SOURCE: http://de.chessbase.com/post/wer-wa...!

translated from the article on Isoard

<Only these five letters left over from those decades -long friendship. The two friends may have written hundreds of such small writing. One of these (dated October 26, 1867) by Charles II to his friend , the Count dIsoard is , :

Dear Count ,

I have every day sent someone to find out news from you , and I'm very sorry to know that you are still suffering .

The most famous game ever played?
The most reprinted game ever played?

You do know of course know that the game was between Morphy and Count Isouard only.

The Duke was only watching and never actually suggested any of moves. (except those he made the Count take back when Morphy was off buying the choc ices.)

This is all explained quite cleary here.

From Frederick Edge's account of the evening.

<H. R. H. the Duke of Brunswick is a thorough devotee to Caissa; we never saw him but he was playing chess with some one or other. We were frequent visitors to his box at the Italian Opera; he had got a chess-board even there, and played throughout the performance. On our first visit "Norma" was performed. The Duke's box is right on the stage; so close, indeed, that you might kiss the _prima donna_ without any trouble. Morphy sat with his back to the stage, and the Duke and Count Isouard facing him. <Now it must not be supposed that he was comfortable. Decidedly otherwise; for I have already stated that he is passionately fond of music, and, under the circumstances, wished chess at Pluto.> The game began and went on: his antagonists had heard _Norma_ so often that they could, probably, sing it through without prompting; they did not even listen to most of it, but went on disputing with each other as to their next move. Then Madame Penco, who represented the Druidical priestess, kept looking towards the box, wondering what was the cause of the excitement inside; little dreaming that Caissa was the only _Casta Diva_ the inmates cared about. And those tremendous fellows, the "supes," who "did" the Druids, how they marched down the stage, chaunting fire and bloodshed against the Roman host, who, they appeared to think, were inside the Duke's box.>

Morphy vs Harrwitz, 1858

On the other hand I firmly believe that those very few cases of - partial!! - replays that can be checked out on my personal page are quite instructive since they help to demystify the game of chess a little bit. For they are proof of the fact that a game of chess can be defined as being a stringing together of recurring so-called "chunks", that is to say: typic constellations of the pieces, and you "only" have to recognise those chunks ... ;-) ... but the latter fact, that is the problem of course, in all too many cases I have overlooked even the most basic chunks.