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Felix Sicre

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Years covered: 1862 to 1864


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FELIX SICRE
(born 1817, died 1871, 54 years old) Cuba

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He was the first Cuban chess champion. Sicre lost all games to Paul Morphy, during his two visits in Havana in October 1862 and February 1864.

Wikipedia article: Félix Sicre

Last updated: 2022-06-22 01:30:15

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. F Sicre vs Morphy 0-1341862HavanaC77 Ruy Lopez
2. Morphy vs F Sicre 1-0211864Blindfold simul, 3bC41 Philidor Defense
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Jun-21-22  wrap99: Reading about this guy, he was one of the best players in Cuba but Morphy plays him and other blindfold and with black. Because Sicre played someone who played Capablanca as a youngster, Capablanca had a Morphy Number of 2.
Jun-21-22
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  MissScarlett: < Because Sicre played someone who played Capablanca as a youngster, Capablanca had a Morphy Number of 2.>

Not quite the way it works.

Jun-22-22  wrap99: ah, capablanca only morphy 3, of course. interesting that people many years younger than capablanca managed also a 3 and actually are still alive.
Jun-22-22
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  MissScarlett: As you may have seen, Wikipedia has, thanks to <FSR>, I believe, a helpful article on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morph...
Jun-25-22  wrap99: I have seen it. It is quite interesting to see not just the how close to morphy the people were but implicitly the links to the 19th century. I saw Reshevsky once and because he was fairly old when I saw him and of course started very early, here in 1980 or so was a man who had played people born as early as the mid 19th century and probably some even earlier -- the greybeards in his early simuls could easily have been born in the 1840s or 1830s.

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