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The best chess player ever - How Paul Morphy Was Cheated Out of the World Chess Championship.
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September 1, 2002|
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Thomas Hemphill is a retired city manager and freelance writer living in Highland, California. He recently won first prize in a California writers' club short story contest.
"I propose the health of Paul Morphy, the world's chess champion. His peaceful battles have helped to achieve a new revolution; his youthful triumphs have added a new clause to the declaration of American independence."
----Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1859
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