Morphy, P.C. – Barnes, T.W. 1858 (1)




Results
 
Name   Edo    Dev.   Score  /  Games 
Morphy, Paul    2797 (29) 13/19 
Barnes, Thomas    2504 (41) 6/19 
 
Status: casual

Event table notes

Event data
Place: London, England
Start date: June 1858
End date: July 1858
 
Notes:
Sergeant, in Morphy Gleanings (p.17) gives +19-8? as a total between Morphy and Barnes and the Spirit of the Times of 13 Nov. 1858 has +25-6=0 for Morphy. Almost all other sources give +19-7=0. A letter by Edge dated 9 July 1858 gives +13-6=0 for Morphy, for games played up to that date. Here I record the first series of games with score +13-6 separately from the set played in August. These were played sometime between Morphy's arrival in London in June and the date of Edge's letter in July.
 
References
Books
   Edge, Exploits of Morphy, page 200
   Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 16
   Lange and Falkbeer, Paul Morphy Sketch, page 114, 192
   Lawson, Paul Morphy, page 103
   Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 101
   Sergeant, Morphy Gleanings, page 17
Periodicals
   [BLL], 22 Aug. 1858, page 3
   [CMNY], vol. 2, no. 8, Aug. 1858, page 256
   [CMNY], vol. 2, no. 9, Sep. 1858, page 285
   [CMNY], vol. 2, no. 10, Oct. 1858, page 314
   [CMNY], vol. 3, no. 6, June 1859, page 198
   [Fld], 29 Aug. 1874
   [FLIN], 31 July 1858
   [FLIN], 7 Aug. 1858
   [FLIN], 2 Oct. 1858
   [IZL], vol. 33, no. 838, 23 July 1859, page 64
   [NOSD], 8 Aug. 1858
   [NYC], 7 Aug. 1858
   [NYTi], 5 Aug. 1858
   [Sis], vol. 2, 1858, page 332
   [SoT], 18 Sep. 1858
   [SoT], 13 Nov. 1858
   [SZ], vol. 13, no. 9, Sep. 1858, page 371
Web
   Edge, Frederick Milnes.  [Edge to Fiske Letter July 9,1858]
   Kingston, Taylor.  [Morphy, More or Less], page 7
   Krabbé, Tim.  [Band ten: An Interview with Wilhelm Steinitz], page 2
   Sarah.  [Paul Goes to England]
   Sarah.  [The Scotsman]
   Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [Collected results, 1836-1863]

Match information updated: 2 Oct. 2023