Paul Morphy de Otto Dietze
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Paul Charles Morphy – compared with famous contemporaries like Adolf Anderssen or Howard Staunton – belongs to the ‘enigmatic’ personalities of chess history. Such a fate remains mostly reserved to those great players whose biography states, sooner or later: showed psychological abnormalities, isolated himself,became moody, a weirdo, a loner ...
In short – he was one of those who nourish and thus keep alive the folklore maintaining there’s a fine line between genius andinsanity.However, it’s not the aim of this book to illuminate the more orless obscure areas of Morphy’s life, as it’s not a psychologicalstudy, but a chess book. Thus, instead of a research of the soul,a search is to be conducted, a search for a reliable answer to the question as to what sort of chess player Morphy was.
The author is a chess historian whose main interest has alwaysbeen this American ‘superstar’ of the 19th century – rightly regarded as one of the ‘uncrowned world champions’. He has selected and annotated 100 of Morphy’s most instructive games and traced his life's journey in detail – from the discovery of the child prodigy to his early death.
The result is a very vivid insight into a highly interesting part of chess history, which has certainly not deserved to fall into oblivion."
Paul Morphy. Chess Phenomenon
Otto Dietze
Joachim Beyer Verlag
2016
149 pages
JBV20190804
Fiche technique
- Langue
- anglais
- Contenu
- Histoire des échecs
Parties commentées - Exercices
- sans
- Niveau
- joueurs de club
- ISBN
- 978-3-95920-967-0
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Paul Charles Morphy – compared with famous contemporaries like Adolf Anderssen or Howard Staunton – belongs to the ‘enigmatic’ personalities of chess history. Such a fate remains mostly reserved to those great players whose biography states, sooner or later: showed psychological abnormalities, isolated himself,became moody, a weirdo, a loner ...
In short – he was one of those who nourish and thus keep alive the folklore maintaining there’s a fine line between genius andinsanity.However, it’s not the aim of this book to illuminate the more orless obscure areas of Morphy’s life, as it’s not a psychologicalstudy, but a chess book. Thus, instead of a research of the soul,a search is to be conducted, a search for a reliable answer to the question as to what sort of chess player Morphy was.
The author is a chess historian whose main interest has alwaysbeen this American ‘superstar’ of the 19th century – rightly regarded as one of the ‘uncrowned world champions’. He has selected and annotated 100 of Morphy’s most instructive games and traced his life's journey in detail – from the discovery of the child prodigy to his early death.
The result is a very vivid insight into a highly interesting part of chess history, which has certainly not deserved to fall into oblivion."