Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-10-25

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Paul MorpLy, the Great American Chess
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Player.
\ httcr ii, M Paris To the New York Times,
give Q following particulars in relation to Pau,
M"rphy, the celebrated American Chess player.
lie Is. IN his way, quite wonder:
| THE astounding pcrf,r mances Of young Paul
| M"rrhy have brought the excitoment IN thu chess
playing world "f this ri,y up to white hent. On
Monday last he played against and beat, blind
folded, eight 1t the best players of Paris at ono
tne'. The Cafe do la Regence, Al which this ex-
,rnnrlinary feat occurred. has two large rUms ON
! the yrou"d fnr, In the first ron. which is full
Of marble tables were seated the eight atyersaris
| ot tlr. Morphy. In the second room. IN which
are two billiard tables. seated the single play
| or. Ia ge portion Of this room. including the
| billiard tables. Wns shut Oft from tho crowd hy
| cord ard behind the tables, in u large arm chair,
sat Mr., Mm hy. with his ack nearly directly 10
| tho crowd Two gentlemen. repairing for tho
p'c-s. kept the game. and two other gentlemen.
Mc>~rs. Tournoud and Arn"ud dc Riviera, cred
cut the moves. rather carried thcm from one
room to the other. The adycrsar:es OF Mr.. Nor
! phv were Mrssrs Baucher. Blerwh, llnrnrmann.
lie que II thc tnguished soul pit, r Potter, 7. e.
IT, aud -, ain. The, all either old "r mid
| dlragrd men. md superior PLAYERS, while Mr..
| Mrlh, is but twenty-ono yours of ngc The
| l"n'ls Of the eight players We're numbered, ~.
3. &c.. in the order in which | havc gwen the
names of the rrntrmcn A, l24 O'Clock the game
clmmcrccl. Mr.. Mmrhy playing first. nnd calling
ont the ,ainr move for all the eight boards. P22.
! tI'hr games were conducted in French. Mr. Nor
nhy >praklng French rertectlyl At O'clock.
| No ~as beaten with mn unlock editor check
| mate Son niter < O'Clock. No. q abandoned The
game H. hopeless. and hnlf IN hour later NJ Lc-
| que-nr NJ. 5 played for nnd gained draw game.
| \ -. l. = nnd were soon after beaten. AT ID
O'Clock No. ! made the blind player accept draw
| game but it was lol o'clock before NJ. S'guin,
| M. 4 II very old gentleman, who c"ntended with
/ Lnnto In heut aiv
while twn. who acted "n the defensive aud only
s,.u 1T draw game effected their purpose hnin
! d. NV game, under such circumstances. ought t. be
! considered equivalent I" II beat.
during the entire game. which lnste just ten
| hours. Mr. M,rph, snt with his knecs and cyce
against the bare wall never once rising or o"k'ng
towards the nu Hence. nor even taking particle
| nf drink or uihc, rercshment His only move
| ment- were those oi crossing his legs from side
to side nnI occasionally humping II tunc with
! his iing,r> hr arms of the fdufeuH lie
| cr'cl uut hir mo. es without turning his head. -
| A.n t-i l. :. >. a...! aud /, who were not up
| 10 the ,taala, m the other three PLAYERS. he
! Frequently mnc moves instantnneuu- -ly after
| r"c"i,,n. theirs. lie wns calm throuehout,
and never male mistake. nor did be call n move
| twice.
1t must he Objected moreover, that Mnrphy
played against the fed'--in other words thnt
around each If the eight boards thcre was II large
collection ni excellent chess players. who gave
| their advice freely, and who had eight times
| lngcr 10 study their play in than the single play
or. Ilc played certainly against fifty men,
| and they ccnsca for mol ument making sup
posed moves and studying their game most tho
| roughly during the long interval that nccc sn-
rv fell t" each board. AMI yet Morphy wha
| was out Of sight of these eight boards saw the
| game palmer =; ch than those who surround
cd them, Icoud scarcely have believed the
thing possible if | had not seen it. At the
| end offhc game. there was n cheat from the
| three hundred ,hrnnts present, which mnde
| one believe he was back again in old Tammnny
Hall,
The fact is there was u considerable number
! Of Enylishmen aud americans present tnmnng the
latter was Prof r,e, who took n deep interest in
| this extraordinary gamc.1 but much the larger
| number were French M"rphy did not seem nt nll
! fatigurd. aud appeared so m""st that the frenzy
| and admiration "f the French knew no bounds.
! lie WA shaken bv the hand and complimened till
! he hung down his head in confusion. One gray
! haired old man, an octogenaran chcss-plnycr,
! stroked hi~ bar with his hands. as he would
| child ut his own. and showered hun with terms If
| endrnrmrnt Moruhy has on beard vet and looks
more ike schp"l boy thnn n worlds champions.
lie escaped from the "xr'cl crowd M soon pos
sillc and left. with som" friends to get something
to eat. II is not necessary Ia point out IL chess
players the imnIcnsiiy Of the intellectual feat;
every one will admit that it borders upon the mi
tagonists. NJ Lnquesnc. such n mind never did
exist, and, perhaps, never will ngain.
Yesterday the match lcwren llarrwitz and
Morrl,v resumed at3"'clnck in the nitrrmon:
hut in this instance tho PLAYERS seated alone
up stairs and three lnrls were kept down stairs.
on which the progress of the game was marked out
for the benefit of the large crowd in attcn lance
At O'clock the game was drnwn--ad- showing
that Mr.. Iiarrwitz has packed up little since his
four successive defeats of last week.
"Ihe game between them now stands llnrwitz
! two, Mrphy four. ono drawn. The winner Of
the first seven games is the victorious party. This
afternoon they are to play the eighth game. A
large amount nt money is staked on this game far
the friends Of Mr.. IIarwitz are not wanting in
backbone while Mr.. Mnrphy has friends will,
him from New Orleans who caoabc and will
ling 10 back him in millions, if the 0c, aston Of
iers.'
UsEfrL ISroRMATIoN.-T washerwoman of
! Holland and Belgium, So proverblally clean and
! who gel their linen so beautifully white use ref
ned orax as IL washing powder instead OF soda,
in the proportion of large handful of borax pow
| der To abput ten gallons Of boiling water; they
save in soap nearly half. All the large washing
| establishments adopt the same mode For aces,
! cambrcs, &C., extra quality Of the powder is
used and for criuoliues required to he yerv stiff n