„It [chess] is not only the most delightful and scientific, but the most moral of amusements.“
— Paul Morphy
As quoted in Testimonials to Paul Morphy: Presented at University Hall, New York, May 25, 1859
Data de nascimento: 22. Junho 1837
Data de falecimento: 10. Julho 1884
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.
— Paul Morphy
As quoted in Testimonials to Paul Morphy: Presented at University Hall, New York, May 25, 1859
— Paul Morphy
As quoted in Lasker's Chess Magazine
— Paul Morphy
José Raúl Capablanca, in Pablo Morphy by V. F. Coria and L. Palau.
— Paul Morphy
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
— Paul Morphy
Garry Kasparov (2003). On My Great Predecessors. Gloucester Publishers plc. Vol. 1, p. 6. .
— Paul Morphy
As quoted in Testimonials to Paul Morphy: Presented at University Hall, New York, May 25, 1859
— Paul Morphy
Wilhelm Steinitz, International Chess Magazine 1885.
— Paul Morphy
As quoted in Lasker's Chess Magazine https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lasker%27s_Chess_Magazine/Volume_1
— Paul Morphy
As quoted in Testimonials to Paul Morphy: Presented at University Hall, New York, May 25, 1859
— Paul Morphy
From Morphy's letter to Daniel Fiske, February 4, 1863 https://web.archive.org/web/20150722050734/http://www.edochess.ca/batgirl/Morphy_to_Fiske_Feb4.html
— Paul Morphy
Andrew Soltis (in Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, New York, 1977)
— Paul Morphy
Edward Lasker (in The Adventure of Chess, 2nd Edition, New York, 1959)
— Paul Morphy
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
— Paul Morphy
J. A. Galbreath (American Chess Bulletin, October, 1909)
— Paul Morphy
Garry Kasparov (2003). On My Great Predecessors. Gloucester Publishers plc. Vol. 1, p. 43. .