Frases de Paul Morphy

Paul Charles Morphy foi um famoso enxadrista estadunidense do século XIX e incontestavelmente o melhor jogador de sua época. Morphy é chamado de "o gênio efêmero" em razão da sua curta carreira.

✵ 22. Junho 1837 – 10. Julho 1884
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Paul Morphy frases e citações

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Paul Morphy: Frases em inglês

“It [chess] is not only the most delightful and scientific, but the most moral of amusements.”

As quoted in Testimonials to Paul Morphy: Presented at University Hall, New York, May 25, 1859

“Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more serious avocations.”

As quoted in Testimonials to Paul Morphy: Presented at University Hall, New York, May 25, 1859 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=aEZAAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA3

“Let the chessboard supercede the card table, and a great improvement will be visible in the morals of the community.”

As quoted in Testimonials to Paul Morphy: Presented at University Hall, New York, May 25, 1859

“…Morphy was stronger than anyone he played with, including Anderssen”

Wilhelm Steinitz, International Chess Magazine 1885.
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“Anderssen voiced it well when asked why he did not play as brilliantly as usual in his game with Morphy, when he replied: "Morphy will not let me."”

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Fonte: As quoted in Lasker's Chess Magazine https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lasker%27s_Chess_Magazine/Volume_1

“It [chess] is eminently and emphatically the philosopher's game.”

As quoted in Testimonials to Paul Morphy: Presented at University Hall, New York, May 25, 1859

“After the passage of a century, Morphy still remains the most glamorous figure that has ever appeared in the chess world.”

Edward Lasker (in The Adventure of Chess, 2nd Edition, New York, 1959)
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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.”

Andrew Soltis (in Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, New York, 1977)
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“So still was he, that but for the searching intellect which glittered in his full dark eye, you might have taken him for a carven image as he pondered his moves. His bearing was mild and that of a refined gentleman, and he dealt the most crushing blows on his adversary with an almost womanly ease and grace.”

Hugh Alexander Kennedy, quoted in The Westminster Papers: A Monthly Journal of Chess, Whist, Games of Skill and the Drama, Volume X https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Bs9eAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.RA1-PA40
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