“Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.”

— Paul Morphy

Andrew Soltis (in Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, New York, 1977)
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American chess player 1837–1884

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“Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.”

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