| Jul-14-06 | | Autoreparaturwerkbau: Lowenthal said it right, that games like this made Morphy so famous. That's certainly a 20th-Century-type-of-play. |
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| Jun-22-08 | | Calli: Of 23...Nxd5! , the Modern Chess Instructor states: "Highly ingenious and, considering that White was playing this blindfolded along with seven other games, the combination initiated by this move belongs to the finest pieces of Chess Strategy." --
-- Steinitz |
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| Jul-30-09 | | tentsewang: If White bishop was taken in 24. Nxd5 then would had checkmated with 25. Rxg7#
Morphy, you are truly an inspiration. |
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| Jul-30-09 | | tentsewang: 25.R7xf6+ Be6 26.Bxe6# I have noticed many times that Morphy defeats his adversary through more resignation than checkmate. |
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| Oct-17-09 | | tentsewang: Sorry for the flaw info. I provided b/c the knight would take the white squared bishop and its not a double check. Anyway Morphy had an evident advantage to whom he would soon mate. |
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| Jul-26-18 | | PaulMeysman: PM is an Original player |
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Jul-06-19
 | | MissScarlett: Does Lowenthal's book (or other contemporary source) give <Potier>? Boden in the <Field> of October 9th, p.294, has <Poitier>, and the source of the games he prints from the Paris blindfold is Morphy himself. |
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Jul-06-19
 | | jnpope: The Syracuse Daily Standard (1858.12.10), Frere's book (p112), Lange (v2, p9), Stanley (p42), Lowenthal (Appleton ed., p 222), and Lowenthal (Bohn ed., p197) all give Potier. Preti (p91) gives Poitier. |
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Jul-06-19
| | jnpope: Now stop bothering me! I'm supposed to be diligently indexing vol. 2 of the Pillsbury manuscript!! ;-) |
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Jul-07-19
| | MissScarlett: Perhaps it would have been better to ask, does any contemporary source - apart from the <Field> - not give <Potier>? Given that Jean-Louis Preti also took part in the blindfold exhibition and was a fixture at the <La Regence>, meaning he probably knew Po(i)tier well, one is tempted to assign his version greater weight (assuming, that is, his editor/printer wasn't responsible for the change...). Looking at the early British newspaper accounts, we find <Potier> in all of them (excepting the <Field>), but most are simply reprints. The <Globe> of September 30th, p.4, however, reveals its source - <Galignani>. From Harding's <Eminent Victorian Chess Players>, we learn that this apparently refers to <[a]n English-language newspaper published in Paris, Galignani's Messenger>. So far, so uncertain - next question, where does the <William> come from? |
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Jul-07-19
| | jnpope: Le Monde Illustre, 1858.10.16, p256 gives Potier (article at bottom of page). I'm inclined to think Preti's "Poitier" is a typo at this point. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... Page 249 gives the famous image of the event.
Finding the source for "William" will take more time. |
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Jul-07-19
| | jnpope: I did a quick search of the Google archives and the oldest page with "William Potier" that turned up was this very chessgames.com page (dated Jan 15, 2006). I tried using archive.org to seek out other sources and it looks like it may have been introduced by way of a PGN file of Morphy's games (so any schlub could have added this first name into the Morphy canon). At this point, after spending all of an hour in investigation, I find no reputable origin for William. My best guess is someone saw William Potter in an historical games database and mistakenly assigned to Potier the first name of "William". |
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Jul-07-19
| | MissScarlett: <Sidney Potter...you know...always plays the black fella.> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeJ... |
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Jul-07-19
| | jnpope: That's awesome. I miss British sitcoms... that reminds me I need to re-watch Chef! and The Young Ones (RIP Rik Mayall). |
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| Sep-16-20 | | paulmorphy1969: abaut this opponent of Morphy from my search i discovery in this page of france player of chess in page of Eugene Lequesne appear an article on appear name of opponent of Morphy in 8 blindfols simul name namber 6 appear name mister Posier not Potier
we hope that someone can get more information
control this link please.
http://heritageechecsfra.free.fr/le... |
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| Sep-16-20 | | paulmorphy1969: in the same artiche opponent 3 appear name of Bonnemann not Bornemann we hope that someone can get more information. |
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| Mar-24-21 | | joeld: I suspect "Potier" must be William Norwood Potter. He would have been 18 at the time and still unknown in the chess world. |
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Mar-24-21
| | MissScarlett: April 1st is next Thursday. |
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