chess opening #59698 (4)J. Schulten - Paul Morphy, New York 1857 Annotated by alex_ratchkov (2458): After becoming US Champion, for a time Morphy settled in New York, where he played 161 games at odds (=107 -36 =18) and 100 games on equal terms (+87 -5 =8), in which his opponents included the strongest players of that time, such as Paulsen, Stenley, Lichtenhein and Schulten. One of his wins over the latter was published all over the world. Morphy was never one to accept gambits... The…J. Schulten vs. Paul Morphy |