Title: Charles Henry Stanley
Content: and had a daughter, Pauline, who was named after Morphy. Stanley died in 1901. He was one of the participants in the 1st American Chess Congress played in 1857. Charles Henry Stanley Charles Henry Stanley (September 1819, Brighton – 1901, USA) was the first chess champion of the United States. When the first U.S. championship match took place in 1845, Stanley defeated Eugène Rousseau of New Orleans, and claimed the title. Stanley was an Englishman who emigrated from London to New York in 1845 to work in the British Consulate, and his English ideas had a great influence on American

Title: Charles Henry Stanley
Content: Charles Henry Stanley Charles Henry Stanley (September 1819, Brighton – 1901, USA) was the first chess champion of the United States. When the first U.S. championship match took place in 1845, Stanley defeated Eugène Rousseau of New Orleans, and claimed the title. Stanley was an Englishman who emigrated from London to New York in 1845 to work in the British Consulate, and his English ideas had a great influence on American chess. One of his ideas was to have a regular newspaper column devoted to chess, which he started in 1845 in "The Spirit of the Times". He also started

Title: World Chess Championship
Content: Anderssen as the leading player in the world. Anderssen has been described as the first modern chess master. However, there is no evidence that this victory led to his being widely acclaimed at the time as the world champion, although in 1893 Henry Bird retrospectively awarded the title to Anderssen for his victory. Anderssen was himself decisively defeated in an 1858 match against the American Paul Morphy, after which Morphy was toasted across the chess-playing world as the world chess champion. Morphy played matches against several leading players, crushing them all. "Harper's Weekly" (25 September 1858) and "The American Union"

Title: Charles Henry Stanley
Content: the "American Chess Magazine" in 1846, but others copied the idea (which had originated in England), and competition forced the magazine out of business. In 1846 he published the first US book on a chess match, "31 Games of Chess" and in 1855 organized the first World Problem Tournament. Stanley is a little-known figure who has been eclipsed by the achievements of the world famous Paul Morphy. He had some matches against Benjamin Raphael, the results of which are unknown. He played Morphy in 1857, losing the title of U.S. Chess Champion to his far superior opponent. He was married,

Title: Wilhelm Steinitz
Content: to the US in 1859, and died in 1884. The 1886 Steinitz vs. Zukertort match was the first that was explicitly described as being for the World Championship, but Howard Staunton and Paul Morphy had been unofficially described as "World Chess Champion" around the middle of the 19th century. In fact one of the organizers of the 1851 London International tournament had said the contest was for "the baton of the World's Chess Champion", and in mid-1840s Ludwig Bledow wrote a letter to Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa suggesting they should organize a world championship tournament in Germany. Some

Question: Who was America's first world chess champion?
Answer: Bobby Fischer