Paul Morphy

Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 - July 10, 1884), "The Pride and Sorrow of Chess," is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his time, and was an unofficial World Champion. Some chess grandmasters consider Morphy to have been the greatest chessplayer who has ever lived.

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Morphy was also the first American to be internationally acknowledged as the preeminent world figure in a cultural or intellectual field. He was the first American to supersede the achievements of the Old World, whose culture, up until that point, was considered superior to anything produced by the New World, and became the first American superstar. He is also considered the first modern chess prodigy of the Western world since the creation of the modern rules of chess in Italy in 1475.

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