Morphy

It wasn’t always thus: The great American champ Paul Morphy made his name in a string of challenge matches during his electric tour of European capitals in the years just before the Civil War.

This quieter treatment of the Morphy Ruy Lopez with 5. d3 has become fashionable again in the 2020s, but Weiss gets himself into trouble with a misguided early pawn grab: 11.

Gillian Morphy knows about that.

Paul Morphy relied on it heavily during his meteoric rise to world supremacy in the mid-19th century.

New Orleans unknown Paul Morphy famously introduced himself to the chess world by winning the inaugural American Chess Congress in 1857.