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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Place: New Orleans |
| Start date: Mar. 1858 |
| End date: Mar. 1858 |
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| Notes: |
| Sergeant gives date as 1857. Lawson says they were played during a visit by W.W. Montgomery to New Orleans, and that Montgomery 'arrived just before April [1858], staying a week'. The games during this visit are also mentioned by Fiske (p.512), without giving results. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Fiske, First American Chess Congress, page 512 |
| Lange and Falkbeer, Paul Morphy Sketch, page 77, 97 |
| Lawson, Paul Morphy, page 93 |
| Sergeant, Morphy Gleanings, page 15 |
| Periodicals |
| [CMNY], vol. 2, no. 7, July 1858, page 222 |
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