James Thompson (1804-1870)
The tournament book (page 75) reported that Thompson and Morphy played two games that day, Morphy winning winning both. They were the only pairing to contest two games on opening day. Lawson (page 62) gives further details:
Play began as 1:40 P.M., but Thompson resigned at 2:30 P.M. Nevertheless, the second game twenty minutes later and ended at 5:40 P.M., Thompson again resigning.
The collections of Lange, Maroczy, Sergeant and CKR fail to date the second game on 6 October, mistakely assuming it was played on the same day as the other second games of the first round matches.
[Event "1st American Chess Congress, First Section"]
[Site "New York, USA"]
[Date "1857.10.06"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Thompson, James"]
[Black "Morphy, Paul C"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C50"]
[EventDate "1857.10.06"]
[Opening "Giuoco Pianissimo"]
[Variation "Four Knights"]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d3 Nf6 5.Nc3 h6 6.Ne2 d6 7.c3 O-O 8.h3 Kh8 9.Ng3 Nh7 10.Qc2 f5 11.exf5 d5 12.Bb3 e4 13.dxe4 dxe4 14.Ng1 Ne5 15.Be3 Nd3+ 16.Ke2 Bxe3 17.fxe3 Qh4 18.Nxe4 Qxe4 19.Qxd3 Qxg2+ 20.Kd1 Bxf5 21.Qe2 Qxh1 0-1
Game Sources:
ACC1 - Game I
Lange(3rd) - Game 22
Maroczy - Game 023
Sergeant - Game I
Shibut - Game 001
[Event "1st American Chess Congress, First Section"]
[Site "New York, USA"]
[Date "1857.10.06"]
[Round "1.2"]
[White "Morphy, Paul C"]
[Black "Thompson, James"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B44"]
[EventDate "1857.10.06"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Taimanov"]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e6 5.Be3 Be7 6.Nc3 h6 7.Bd3 d5 8.Bb5 Bd7 9.exd5 exd5 10.Nxd5 Nf6 11.Nxf6+ Bxf6 12.c3 O-O 13.O-O Qc7 14.Qa4 Rfe8 15.Rad1 Re4 16.Bxc6 Bxc6 17.Qc2 Be5 18.g3 Bxd4 19.cxd4 Qe7 20.d5 Bd7 21.Bc5 Rc8 22.Bxe7 Rxc2 23.Ba3 b5 24.Rfe1 f5 25.f3 Rxe1+ 26.Rxe1 Rd2 27.d6 a5 28.Bc5 b4 29.Re7 Rd5 30.Bxb4 axb4 31.Rxd7 Kf8 32.Rb7 Rd4 33.Kf2 Rxd6 34.Rxb4 Rd2+ 35.Ke3 Rxh2 36.a4 Rc2 37.a5 Rc5 38.Ra4 Ke7 39.b4 Rc8 40.b5 Rb8 41.a6 Kd7 42.b6 Kc6 43.b7 Kb6 44.a7 Re8+ 45.Kf4 Kxb7 46.a8=Q+ Rxa8 47.Rxa8 Kxa8 48.Kxf5 1-0
Game Sources:
ACC1 - Game II
Lange(3rd) - Game 22
Maroczy - Game 024
Sergeant - Game II
Shibut - Game 002
Date Source: ACC1, page 75
Today's post is a rather minor correction, but, because of playing two games in one day, Morphy and Thompson did not resume their match on the next day. This left Morphy free for some offhand games on 7 October.
6 comments:
Dates, dates, dates drove me nuts, and I drove Sarah nuts with date questions, she must have shuddered with the arrival of each e-mail. But we were having so much fun at the time it did not matter. However, it soon became apparent that there were discrepancies. So if the game was dated by someone it was considered to take precedence over context taken from historical narrative. In those instances the date was just appended to the author’s game number (hopefully for the most part). In this case it is Moroczy’s work that dated the game.
This is not to say that the Lawson reference is not correct. It most likely is absolutely accurate as it reiterates Fiske’s report that gives Morphy’s score at the end of the first day as 2 wins. Then there is the fact that much of Lawson is based upon Fiske no wonder we went nuts.
However, Calli has the knack for sorting this kind of stuff out, I’ll try to follow along and keep up.
CKR - Welcome! Lawson had another source in addition to ACC1 because he gives the start and end times to the games. Maroczy probably copied Lange. And Sergeant copied Maroczy and so on...
Decided to add your Source tags to the PGN and even added one for the best DateSource. These won't be in the Blog proper so as not to complicate things, but if you click on Reviewed Games , it will take you to games file.
Many thanks for the original file which is a solid foundation to build on.
Mr. Chess, Calli is that you? Slow down you are going to kill me.
Just a mention here. The Fiske notes are archived in Iceland, some library, which ever is the biggest up there and has National in the name, I think. It had on-line stuff two years ago when I checked, but Fiske's papers weren't to be found, maybe things have caught up. Unfortunately, Chess History is probably the last thing that the librarians consider putting up.
As to Lawson having stuff other than Fiske, probably Fiske's original work is probably the source of most of it, Fiske was on the scene, his work expressed duration of games with exact times, possibly Lawson used his references but expressed it by Time Of Day just to not outright plagiarize. If Fiske knew a game was 2 hours and 42 minutes it is become he had the times, most likely.
Now let me try to play catch up this week.
Here is something I have always pondered. If Edge didn't feel so slighted by the effort he put into the 1st Congress, would or would not have Morphy risen to the hieghts he did and to the stature he holds today? Who would Patton be without WWII or Ceasar without Rome? Just wondering Where wuold Morphy have gone without Edge?
become, read because
hate blogs that can't edit.
wuold, see what I mean
CKR, Have you caught up yet? I haven't posted anything in week. :-) Trying to decide how to do the rest of the ACC1. Its a lot of work, making me appreciate MyMorphy even more.
F. Edge - He was definitely responsible for the Anderssen match, but Morphy, I believe, had the ambition to go to Europe and challenge the players there in any case.
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