If you don't have a Kindle, get the eBook from Project Gutenberg for free. I'm sure some artistic license was taken here and there but the portraits of the various key players (Morphy, Staunton, Harrwitz and Anderssen, etc) are really vibrant and fun. * Morphy's first-of-its-kind feats: playing 8 players blindfolded at once, etc. citations from the editorial pages of newspapers at the time * Staunton avoids a match with Morphy, incl. But until now there has never been a book devoted entirely to this most.
* detailed coverage of the "chess clubs" scattered throughout London at the time The Inner Game of Chess : How to Calculate and Win by Andrew Soltis (1994. * the Europeans scoff at the possibility of a strong American chess-player * details of Morphy's rise to American fame
One gem was "The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion", which was written by chess journalist Frederick Milnes Edge back when Morphy made his famous trip to Europe in the mid 1800s. 19.95 (ChessCafe Price 16.95) Grandmaster Andy Soltis is a popular Chess Life columnist and the author of numerous classics of chess literature, including Pawn Structure Chess, The New Art of Defense in Chess, Rethinking the Chess. I recently snagged all the free Kindle content that came up for an Amazon search of Chess. The Inner Game of Chess, Andrew Soltis, Mongoose Press 2014, Paperback, Figurine Algebraic Notation, 324pp.
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