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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Leonard Barden (section Morphy number)
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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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (redirect from Bacon number)
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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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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Howard Staunton (section Staunton–Morphy controversy)
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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Little Nemo (redirect from King "Morphy" Morpheus)
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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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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Adolf Anderssen (section Morphy match, 1858)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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[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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Smith–Morra Gambit (section Morphy Defense)
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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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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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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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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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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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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on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland (as reported in number 152 of EG). "Edge, Morphy and Staunton" by Edward Winter Tributes from the British Chess...
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agreement with Morphy Richards, United Kingdom, for the sales and marketing of electrical appliances under the brand name of "Morphy Richards" in India...
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nineteenth century, when some of the world's leading players rejected it. Paul Morphy, the world's best player in the late 1850s, decried "that pernicious fondness...
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