including an Historical Account of Clubs, Biographical Sketches of Famous Players, and Various Information and Anecdote relating to the Noble Game of Chess. By Paul Morphy’s late Secretary. New York : ...

When “The Queen’s Gambit” became all the rage on Netflix last year, chess saw a massive jump in popularity and people became fascinated with its history and champions. But few may realize one of the ...

As near as I can tell, it's one of those hiccoughs of a street, maybe eight blocks long, sliced by cross streets named for now-forgotten civic heroes: Castiglione, D'Abadie, O'Reilly, Onzaga. Its name ...

He didn't exactly have Paul Morphy's number, but largely unheralded 19th century English master Thomas Barnes -- born 200 years ago this month -- did manage to win more chess games off the brilliant ...