Chess Classics: Anderssen-Morphy

We start our series of Chess Classics with the match between the two strongest players of the mid-19th century. It took place in December 1858 in Paris. The players agreed to play up to seven wins.

Adolf Anderssen, from Breslau, Prussia (now Wroclaw, Poland), was considered to be the unofficial world champion after he had won the first international chess tournament, London 1851. Since then, he had only participated in one other event. A professor of mathematics, Anderssen was 40 years old when the match was played.

Paul Morphy, the American genius, had been in Europe only for six months. He had finished his studies at age 19, and had spent two years on chess while intending to start a professional career as a lawyer soon.

While Morphy was beating all the leading players in Europe, he failed to arrange a match with his desired opponent, Howard Staunton. The match with Anderssen was his biggest test so far. Despite a severe illness (he suffered from a bout of intestinal influenza), Morphy, 21 years old, insisted on playing.

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Schedule
Game 1 Apr 6, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 2 Apr 7, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 3 Apr 8, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 4 Apr 9, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 5 Apr 10, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 6 Apr 11, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 7 Apr 12, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 8 Apr 13, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 9 Apr 14, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 10 Apr 15, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 11 Apr 16, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST

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