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Paul Morphy vs Hiram Kennicott
Casual game (1857), New York, NY USA
Italian Game: Evans Gambit. Main Line (C51)  ·  1-0

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Jun-22-11  YoungEd: Can't believe no one has commented on this game yet! I guess Black's triple threat with the ♕ keep White from pressing the attack successfully.
Jun-09-16
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  dernier loup de T: I think you're right, YoungEd; Morphy had still to learn his own rules: no premature attacks, development first: so, 14.Nbd2 was the right way to win the game...
Dec-01-21
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  MissScarlett: The game appears in Lawson's article, <Unknown Paul Morphy Games>, August 1978, p.354, as a win for White: <19 ... 1-0>, indicating that the game continued. But how can White refuse the perpetual and not lose the game? Probably best left as is.
Nov-05-24
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  jnpope: The earliest source I can find for this game is to <Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper>, 1859.02.26, p193, along with the additional move of 19.Nc3 and Kennicott's annotations. It seems to me that the termination should be <19.Qg5+ Kd6> 20.Nc3 which makes far more sense in regard to Kennicott's last note: "and Black cannot save the game, though he has still an apparently won game."

Kennicott also makes no mention of his opponent being Paul Morphy, just "Mr. M.". He also gives no location or year for this game.

Lawson is apparently the one who dates this game as being played in New York 1857 by Morphy in the <British Chess Magazine>, v98 n8, August 1978, p354. Is there any evidence to support this additional data?

Nov-05-24  stone free or die: Why "Mr. M" and not "Mr. Morphy"?

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Nov-05-24
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  jnpope: Suspicious isn't it?
Nov-05-24  stone free or die: <jn> yes, I would think. But I'd like to investigate - find typical game presentations, and also, look at games Kennicott annotated.

Where are the <FLIW> or <FLIN>'s archived online?

(I think <O'Keefe> must have quite a few clippings)

Nov-05-24  stone free or die: Direct link to <O'Keefe>

http://www.chessarch.com/excavation...

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Nov-05-24
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  jnpope: The CA site has clippings.

If you click on <Holdings> for those titles a window should open. The sources are at the bottom of that window (some are photocopies, others have links to an online source).

Nov-05-24  stone free or die: <jn> just mussing, but might it be nice on a clipping page to have a link back to the holdings?

So, the newspaper title becomes a link at the top of the clipping?

Also, a <next / previous>, but that's just asking to be a pampered boy!

Nov-05-24  stone free or die: (Oh yeah, the clipping pop-up is a limited window, so that idea might not be as straight-forward as I first imagined)

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