- Café de la Régence
The Café de la Régence in
Paris was an important European centre ofchess in the 18th and 19th centuries. All importantchess master s of the time played there.The Café' masters include, but are not limited to:
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Paul Morphy
*François-André Danican Philidor (who often met withBen Franklin )
*Legall de Kermeur (Philidor's teacher)
*Jules Arnous de Rivière
*Adolf Anderssen
*Samuel Rosenthal The great tournament of Paris 1867, won by
Ignatz von Kolisch aboveSzymon Winawer andWilhelm Steinitz , was played there.Biography
*Metzner, Paul: Crescendo of the Virtuoso, 1998. [http://texts.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft438nb2b6&chunk.id=ch1]
*Ken Whyld : "Chess Christmas". Moravian Chess, Olomouc 2006. ISBN 80-7189-559-8. S. 311 - 321References
*Citation
last=Shenk|first=David
year=2006
title=TheImmortal Game : A History of Chess
publisher=Doubleday
ID=ISBN 0-385-51010-1
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