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See also:MORPHY, See also:PAUL See also:CHARLES (1837–1884) , See also:American See also:chess player, was See also:born in New See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans, See also:Louisiana, on the 22nd of See also:June 1837, the son of Alonzo Morphy (1798–1856) and his wife, whose See also:maiden name was Le Carpentier. The See also:father, the son of a well-to-do See also:Spanish immigrant, was a prominent jurist and legislator and, like his See also:brother Ernest, passionately fond of chess. Learning the moves from his father at the See also:age of ten, Paul gave See also:evidence of such extraordinary precocity that in less than two years he was able to defeat all the amateurs of his native See also:city. While still at school he competed successfully with such strong players as See also:Eugene See also:Rousseau and the Hungarian See also:master J. Lowenthal. He attended the Jesuit See also:college of St See also:Joseph at See also:Spring See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, See also:Alabama, and applied himself to the study of the See also:law, being admitted to the See also:bar of Louisiana in 1858. During the autumn of 1857 he took See also:part in the first American chess See also:congress at New See also:York, winning the first See also:prize from sixteen competitors, including the well-known L. See also:Paulsen. Morphy went to See also:Europe in the spring of 1858 and entered upon a See also:series of triumphs, both in See also:regular mat9ches and in blindfold See also:play, that proved him to be one of the best players of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. The See also:winter of 1858–1859 was passed in See also:Paris, where he was destined to gain his greatest triumphs, practically winning the championship of the See also:world by beating Adolf Anderssen, See also:champion of See also:Germany, by a See also:score of 7–2, with two See also:games See also:drawn. Another feat was his simultaneous blindfold match against eight strong See also:French players, six of whom he defeated. At this time he was in his twenty-second See also:year. Returning to the See also:United States in 1859, he in-tended to establish himself in the practice of the law at New Orleans, but the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War frustrated these plans. His devotion to chess had already begun to affect his See also:health. He spent the year 1863 in Paris, returning to New Orleans in 1864, but his health was now permanently impaired. He became insane, and at last he died in New Orleans in 1884.
See Exploits and Triumphs of Paul Morphy, by F. M. Edge (New York, 1859) ; Morphy's Games, edited by J. Lowenthal (New York, 186o) ; Paul Morphy, by Max See also:Lange (See also:Leipzig, 1881).
End of Article: MORPHY, PAUL CHARLES (1837–1884)
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