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on Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:15am.
Withdrawal, then resumption Then he withdrew from serious chess, and played only less serious games at the Manhattan Chess Club and simultaneous displays. Reuben Fine recalls that in this period he (Fine) could fight on almost level terms w... Read more »
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on Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:14am.
Post-championship After Capablanca lost the title, he won a number of strong tournaments, hoping that his showing would force Alekhine to grant him a rematch, but it was not to be. Capablanca won at Stockholm 1928 with 4/4, ahead of Erik Lu... Read more »
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on Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:27am.
Morphy abandons chess Having vanquished virtually all serious opposition, Morphy reportedly declared that he would play no more matches without giving odds of pawn and move.[5] After returning home he declared himself retired from the game ... Read more »
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on Tue Apr 22, 2008 11:50am.
Losing the title Capablanca had overwhelming success at New York 1927, a quadruple-round robin with six of the world's top players. He was undefeated, with 14/20, and 2½ points ahead of the second-placed Alexander Alekhine. This ... Read more »
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on Tue Apr 22, 2008 11:47am.
Morphy is hailed as World Champion Still only twenty-one, Morphy was now quite famous. While in Paris, he was sitting in his hotel room one evening, chatting with his companion Frederick Edge, when they had an unexpected visitor. "I am... Read more »
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on Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:41am.
Morphy goes to Europe Morphy vs. Lowenthal, 1858Soon after returning to New Orleans he was invited to attend an international chess tournament to be held in Birmingham, England in the summer of 1858. Still too young to start his law ... Read more »
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on Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:54am.
Schooling and the First American Chess Congress After 1850, Morphy did not play much chess for a long time. Studying diligently, he graduated from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, in 1854. He then stayed on an extra year, studying ma... Read more »
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on Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:56am.
In 1919, Capablanca overwhelmed the strong Serbian Kostic in a match at Havana with five straight wins, whereupon Kostic resigned the match. Capablanca later wrote in 1927 that he had played the best chess of his life in this match. Capabla... Read more »
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on Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:10pm.
Wartime years World War I began in midsummer 1914, and international chess was virtually stopped for more than four years. Capablanca spent the war years mainly in the United States, and played several events, winning all of them, but these... Read more »
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on Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:53am.
World title contender In 1911, Capablanca challenged Emanuel Lasker for the world championship. Lasker accepted his challenge but proposed seventeen conditions for the match. Capablanca disapproved of some of the conditions and the ma... Read more »