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cyna 15-Jul-09, 23:33	Paul Morphy's NY Ledger Column You may have seen this, I haven't until now: www.chesscafe.com Play on...
cyna 16-Jul-09, 01:39	Chess Newspaper Columns "The first chess column began in the Liverpool Mercury in 1813, and the first in a weekly publication, The Lancet, in 1823, although a game had been given in 1822. The earliest in America was in the New York Spirit of the Times, from 1845, written by Charles Henry Stanley. In the 1840's, there was a surge of interest in problems, perhaps because they could be regularly published in newspaper columns or periodicals, or because of the increasing number of chess enthusiasts, or for both reasons. Paul Morphy, aside from being co-editor of Chess Monthly, with Daniel Willard Fiske, for 3 years, also wrote a weekly column for the New York Ledger for one year, August 6, 1859 - August 4, 1860. With Morphy's continuing success, the country was aflame with Morphy and chess. Newspapers and weeklies met the public's interest with chess columns and articles. Even the Musical World felt the need to have a chess column, and engaged Sam Loyd to start one in February 1859. By July, the chess column took over the entire front page as though it were a chess magazine, sometimes invading page 2! Fiske wrote in the Chess Monthly of July 1859, "The chess columns of the United States now form a formidable brigade. From as far East as Boston, to as far West as San Francisco, from southernmost Texas to northernmost Minnesota." As the Chess Monthly of August 1859 stated, his Ledger column was to consist mainly of his annotation of the celebrated 85 game match between Louis Charles de la Bourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell in 1834, won by Bourdannais 45 to 27, with 13 draws. Morphy wound up annotating 35 of the games. In Morphy's column for The New York Ledger; Saturday, March 3, 1860, as reprinted in the previously mentioned book by David Lawson, Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess, Morphy annotated the 26th game of the McDonnell-Bourdannais match, and gave the following problem, by Theodore Herlin, originally published in Regene, 1849." View Problem: www.chessproblem.net SOURCE: Provided by garykevinware, 2009, moderator.
cyna 17-Jul-09, 10:10	NY Ledger Column, Author: Paul Morphy New York Ledger Column: Paul Morphy wrote a chess column "Chess Department, conducted by Paul Morphy" in the New York Ledger from August 6, 1859 until August 4, 1860; a total of 52 columns. Here are 18 of them, available for viewing on Wikisource: Problem I, August 6, 1859 Problem II, August 13, 1859 Problem III, August 20, 1859 Problem IV, August 27, 1859 Problem V, September 10, 1859 Problem VI, September 17, 1859 Problem VII, September 24, 1859 Problem VIII, October 1, 1859 Problem IX, October 8, 1859 Problem X, October 15, 1859 Problem XI, October 22, 1859 Problem XII, October 29, 1859 Problem XIII, November 5, 1859 Problem XIV, November 12, 1859 Problem XV, November 19, 1859 Problem XVI, November 26, 1859 Problem XVII, December 3, 1859 Problem XVIII, December 10, 1859 SOURCE: en.wikisource.org
shamash 04-Oct-11, 16:17	the benefits of Morphy's Ledger lessons We know there are many books About Paul Morphy, and there continue to be new ones, such as the one on his dynamics by Valeri Beim; too bad there are no books By Morphy. For a year, however, he did write this chess column for the N. Y. Ledger in which he analyzed master games of the day, and wrote of the proper deployment of forces. Just wondering, if the chess of anyone here has benefited from what he wrote specifically in these columns, and how?
johnclark 08-Oct-11, 18:26	the benefits of Morphy's Ledger lessons We tried a study group from a book on Morphy's games but that died fairly quickly. We played a couple consultations games on the Evans Gambit and Two Knights Defense, popular openings during Morphy's time. I did an annotation of the famous L'Opera game and I think there is another annotation/analysis of a Morphy game floating somewhere in the older threads. But as far as going through his games or published analyses, we fall short. Do you have anything in mind?
shamash 09-Oct-11, 05:02	since you ask What I have in mind is that in this Club of 80 members honoring the genius of Paul Morphy some of our members must have examined the only chess teachings we actually have from the pen of the master himself, and then utilized his teachings to make themselves stronger players; and I am curious as to what specific insights, precepts, pronouncements, annotations, conclusions, or lessons from what Morphy actually wrote made their game stronger.
ironbutterfly 10-Oct-11, 08:29	Morphy's ledgers That's an interesting point about what we have learned from Morphy directly, shamash. Would you be willing to start the discussion off - either on this thread or on a new one - with talking about what specific things you have learned directly from Morphy's writings? Just speaking for myself - I've never looked at those columns, and it would give me a chance to study them a bit, and compare what he himself writes with what I've learned about him from the books like Beim's and Shabut's and to a lesser degree Del Rosario's.
shamash 10-Oct-11, 10:48	unmined treasures Have only just discovered them, so have nothing to offer. And am frankly surprised never to have seen them mentioned by those who have annotated his games. Not even by Kasparov in his discussion of Morphy's life, his games, and his "principles" of developing fast, seizing the center, and opening lines.

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