An attempt to find the earliest publication of each and improve and dates, names and scores in the database.

Two McConnell games were published in "The Chess World" of 1865, page 293: "The two following games, which we owe to the kindness of Mr. Charles Maurian, an enthusiastic and skillful chess amateur of New Orleans, were played when Mr. Morphy was quite a boy, in 1852, and have never before been printed." http://books.google.com/books?id=p3... G1 was published in London's Field column (9/18/1858) and dated as 1849. http://www.chessarch.com/excavation... Update! The game was first published in the New_York_Clipper of 18560726 and given an exact date Oct 20 1852 by E Morphy and N Marache. http://www.chessarch.com/excavation... Maurian published G2 in 1858 in the NO Sunday Delta and dated it as 1849. http://www.chessarch.com/excavation.... The move order in CG is wrong should be 9.g3 Nc6 10.Nf4 Bd7 11.Nc3 Nf6.

Game 3 - published by Maurian in 1858. Played against 'an amateur" the year not stated and was played to mate. http://www.chessarch.com/excavation...

Gsme 4 - played against allies in 1850 according to Maurian http://www.chessarch.com/excavation...

Game 5 - La Régence January 1851 - Ernest Morphy sent this letter to Kieseritsky, then editor of La Régence. http://books.google.com/books?id=ar... added date to CG

Game 6 - http://www.chessarch.com/excavation...

Game 7 - http://www.chessarch.com/excavation...

On March 1, 1855, Morphy played 6 games with A.B. Meek and 2 with A. D. Ayers winning all.

Game 8 - The Chess Monthly, Vol 1, 1857, page 146, game XXXII

Game 9 - The Chess Monthly, Vol 1, 1857, page 112, game XXIII

Game 10 - The Chess Monthly, Vol 1, 1857, page 371, game LXXXI Dr A. D. Ayers. Jay Whitehead gives Alfred D Ayers. this is unconfirmed but we mention it here as a possibility for further research. Game was played March 1, 1855.

Game 11 - The Chess Monthly, Vol 1, 1857, page 147, game XXXIII Opponent given as "Amateur" and no date specified. The Deutsche Schachzeitung (1863), "Mr Knight". http://books.google.com/books?id=ZH...

Game 12 - The Chess Monthly, Vol 1, 1857, page 340, game LXXIII Game actually played in November of 1956.

Game 13 - The Chess Monthly, Vol 2 1858, page 175, CXVI, played May 25, 1850

Game 14 - The Chess Monthly, Vol 2, 1858, p207 played November 1856

Game 15 - Earliest Pub that I've found is https://books.google.com/books?id=0... Maurian in the New Orleans Times-Democrat of July 27, 1884 provided more details: "The subjoined curious little partie at odds Queen's Rook, which is given in the various collections of Morphy's games simply as an Amateur, will acquire renewed interest for the chess world when it is stated that the Amateur in question was in fact Morphy's father, Judge Alonzo Morphy, and that the game was played about the year 1850, when the great master was hardly thirteen years old" - Lawson page 82.

Game 16 - Published by Lawson in Chess World, Jan-Feb 1964, page 55, giving the source as the Morphy family records. Played Oct 28 1849.