Paul Morphy

(1837-1884)

American chess player

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Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 – July 10, 1884) was an American chess player. He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and an unofficial second World Chess Champion 1858–1860. A chess prodigy, he was called "The Pride and Sorrow of Chess" because he had a brilliant chess career but retired from the game while still young. Bobby Fischer and Viswanathan Anand ranked Morphy among the ten greatest chess players of all time, with Fischer describing him as "perhaps the most accurate player who ever lived".

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Born	Paul Charles Morphy 22 June 1837 New Orleans, United States
Died	10 July 1884 (aged 47) New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Zodiac	Cancer
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