Café de la Régence
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The Café de la Régence in Paris
was an important European centre of chess
in the 18th and 19th centuries. All important chess master
s of the time played there.
The Café' masters include, but are not limited to:
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
was an important European centre of chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
in the 18th and 19th centuries. All important chess master
Chess master
A chess master is a chess player of such skill that he/she can usually beat chess experts, who themselves typically prevail against most amateurs. Among chess players, the term is often abbreviated to master, the meaning being clear from context....
s of the time played there.
The Café' masters include, but are not limited to:
- Paul MorphyPaul MorphyPaul Charles Morphy was an American chess player. He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and an unofficial World Chess Champion. He was a chess prodigy...
- François-André Danican PhilidorFrançois-André Danican PhilidorFrançois-André Danican Philidor , often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess player. He contributed to the early development of the opéra comique...
(who often met with Ben Franklin) - Legall de KermeurLegall de KermeurLegall de Kermeur was a French chess player.His name is variously written Kermur, Sire de Legalle, by Twiss, and Kermur and Kermuy, Sire de Legal, by others...
(Philidor's teacher) - Jules Arnous de RivièreJules Arnous de RivièreJules Arnous de Rivière was the strongest French chess player from the late 1850s through the late 1870s. He is best known today for playing many games with Paul Morphy when the American champion visited Paris in 1858 and 1863.Born in Nantes to a French father and an English mother as...
- Adolf AnderssenAdolf AnderssenKarl Ernst Adolf Anderssen was a German chess master. He is considered to have been the world's leading chess player in the 1850s and 1860s...
- Samuel RosenthalSamuel RosenthalSamuel Rosenthal was a Jewish chess master. Chess historian Edward Winter wrote, "He dedicated his life to chess-playing, touring, writing, teaching and analysing...
Additional information
- Karl Marx met Frederich Engels at this café on August18, 1844.
- The great tournament of Paris 1867, won by Ignatz von Kolisch above Szymon WinawerSzymon WinawerSzymon Abramowicz Winawer , born in Warsaw, Poland, was a leading chess player who won the German Chess Championship in 1883...
and Wilhelm SteinitzWilhelm SteinitzWilhelm Steinitz was an Austrian and then American chess player and the first undisputed world chess champion from 1886 to 1894. From the 1870s onwards, commentators have debated whether Steinitz was effectively the champion earlier...
, was played there. - La Société des AmateursTraité des AmateursTraité des Amateurs is the short name of the celebrated book Traité Théorique et Pratique du jeu des Echecs, par une Société des Amateurs, published in France in 1786 and subsequently translated into German and English....
, was based here. - In 1742, the celebrated French writers and philosophers, Diderot and Rousseau, met at this café
Biography
- Metzner, Paul: Crescendo of the Virtuoso, 1998. http://texts.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft438nb2b6&chunk.id=ch1
- Ken WhyldKen WhyldKenneth Whyld was a British chess author and researcher, best known as the co-author of The Oxford Companion to Chess, the standard single-volume chess reference work in English....
: Chess Christmas. Moravian Chess, Olomouc 2006. ISBN 80-7189-559-8. S. 311 - 321