{"id":2094,"date":"2014-11-19T19:57:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T19:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2014-11-19T19:57:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T19:57:30","slug":"chessflash-world-newsnov-19-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/?p=2094","title":{"rendered":"CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS\/Nov 19, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNew Orleans, Louisiana<\/strong> LEGENDARY WORLD CHESS CHAMPION PAUL MORPHY\u2019S HOUSE GETS $20 MILLION DOLLAR FACELIFT … REOPENS WITH MORPHY MOMENTO MEMORIAL CHESS SET AND TABLE ROOM IN BRENNAN\u2019S RESTAURANT NOVEMBER 25,2014 …<\/p>\n

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Photo by Kathleen Flynn, NOLA.com l The Times-Picayune<\/p><\/div>\n

Brennan\u2019s is already serving people daily with construction merrily progressing non stop … Paul Morphy (1837-1884) … \u00a0the Rolling Stones, Beatles and U2 … During the American Civil War era it was well known to even Union soldiers invading the city … as numerous accounts verify … people everywhere stared in awe as Paul Morphy, dressed like a prince, traversed New Orleans streets on daily ritual at the Caf\u00e9 Du Monde, French meat and vegetable market … Morphy rarely played chess after 1860 … died just above the entry door on the second floor at 417 ROYAL STREET, age 47 … as you enter, look directly up and nod … to meet Morphy one was to stand across the street, present one\u2019s card … and never discuss chess at all .., he loved the opera … that was a good starter … Curiously, a later world chess champion, W. Steinitz, made a mysterious, amiable Morphy visit … the once in a century meeting of the towering chess giants … just one hour\u2019s conversation devoid of chess followed … and even this was only recalled in 1899 for a New York chess official shortly before Steinitz died in terrible poverty. The book The Steinitz Papers<\/em> revealed their electrifying meeting only a century later … 1972 world chess champion Robert \u2019Bobby\u2019 Fischer called Morphy “the greatest player” for a thrilled New Orleans crowd (March, 1964 at the now long gone Gravier Street YWCA auditorium) … I should know .,. I was standing four feet from Fischer as he said it!<\/p>\n

— Jude Acers<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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