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    game with Morphy have a Morphy number of 1. Players who did not play Morphy but played someone with a Morphy number of 1 have a Morphy number of 2. People...
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    Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 – July 10, 1884) was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s Morphy was acknowledged as...
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    Erdős–Bacon–Sabbath number of 8, and actress Natalie Portman has one of 11 (her Erdős number is 5). In chess, the Morphy number describes a player's...
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  • 1895, and Bird played a number of games with Paul Morphy in 1858 and 1859. Mieses also beat Louis Paulsen at Breslau 1889. Morphy and Paulsen played at...
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    Brosnan, and Bacon. Small-world experiment Morphy Number, connections via chess games to Paul Morphy Shusaku number, equivalent in the Go world with Honinbo...
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  • Botvinnik, Emanuel Lasker 2700: Mikhail Tal 2690: Alexander Alekhine, Paul Morphy, Vasily Smyslov Though published in 1978, Elo's list did not include five-year...
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    that Steinitz could not make such a claim while Morphy was alive (Morphy died in 1884). There are a number of references to Steinitz as world champion in...
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    Chess portal Glossary of chess Glossary of chess problems Hippogonal Morphy number Thomas S. Yukic. Fundamentals of Recreation, 2nd edition. Harpers &...
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    and Paul Morphy, but it never came about. It was alleged by British Chess Association president Lord Lyttelton that Staunton misled Morphy while trying...
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    accompanied with captions beneath them, and at first the captions were numbered. In contrast to the high level of skill in the artwork, the dialogue in...
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  • The Staunton–Morphy controversy concerns the failure of negotiations in 1858 for a chess match between Howard Staunton and Paul Morphy and later interpretations...
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    Morphine (redirect from Morphy (drug))
    μ-opioid receptor internalization or receptor down-regulation (reducing the number of available receptors for morphine to act on), and upregulation of the...
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    great international tournaments of 1851 and 1862, but lost matches to Paul Morphy in 1858, and to Wilhelm Steinitz in 1866. Accordingly, he is generally regarded...
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    of 2490, and was one of just a few living players in the world with Morphy Number 3. Following the death of Yuri Averbakh at the age of 100 on 7 May 2022...
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    Guillermo Morphy y Ferríz de Guzmán, best known as Conde de Morphy or Count Morphy (February 29, 1836 in Madrid – August 28, 1899 in Baden, Switzerland)...
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    Games of Chess. G. Bell and Sons Ltd. Harding, Tim (2010) Playing the Morphy Number Game, ChessCafe.com. The Infallibility of the Church, London: John Murray...
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  • and is former secretary of the fellowship committee. Kaufman has a Morphy Number of 4 through, for example, Arthur Bisguier and Norman T. Whitaker. Kaufman...
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  • Nc6. Some moves from here include: 3. Bb5: Ruy Lopez 3...a6: Ruy Lopez, Morphy Defence (main line) 3...Nf6: Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defence 3...d6: Ruy Lopez...
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    Carnforth (redirect from Morphy's Mill)
    the Leeds–Morecambe line (the Bentham line). From the 1920s to the 1980s Morphy's Mill, in Oxford Street, was a major employer of women in Carnforth. Contrary...
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    into the nature of chess came with the American Paul Morphy, an extraordinary chess prodigy. Morphy won against all important competitors (except Staunton...
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  • exd4 3.Qxd4 Nc6 4.Qe3. In return for the sacrificed pawn, White acquires a number of benefits that can be used to create active plans: Active development...
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    simultaneously. 3. Bb5 White plays the Ruy Lopez. 3... a6 Black elects Morphy's Defence. Though not technically a part of algebraic notation, the following...
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  • April 28, 2021 Israel Horowitz, From Morphy to Fischer, Batsford, 1973, page 52 Israel Horowitz, From Morphy to Fischer, Batsford, 1973, page 116 Bondarevsky...
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    losing side of the "Opera Game," defeated by American chess master Paul Morphy in one of the most famous chess games ever played. Charles was born in Brunswick...
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    Browett With $60 Million In Stock". Cult of Mac. Retrieved October 24, 2017. Morphy, Erika (October 30, 2012). "This is Tim Cook's Apple: A Company Where 'Mini-Steve'...
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    Card Catalog Number 72-80175 "Scores of various important chess results from the Romantic era". Shibut, Macon (May 7, 2014). Paul Morphy and the Evolution...
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    visualize the board while in bed at night when he had trouble sleeping. Paul Morphy held in 1858 a blindfold exhibition against the eight strongest players...
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  • com Grand Swiss: Firouzja and Lei triumph in Riga, FIDE, 8 Nov 2021 "From Morphy to Fischer", Israel Horowitz, Batsford, 1973 Fischer – Petrosian Candidates...
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    [1975]. Die Weltmeister Des Schachspiels: von Morphy bis Aljechin [The World Champions of Chess: From Morphy to Alekhine] (in German). Vol. 1 (Reprint ed...
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  • high-level competition, although a number of top players, including Alexander Alekhine, Bent Larsen, Paul Morphy, Miguel Najdorf, and Hikaru Nakamura...
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