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354:. The items stating that the New Orleans Chess Club did not negotiate with Morphy before issuing the challenge and that Morphy simply assumed it would be easy to arrange a match once he reached England are sensational, as they imply that the whole affair was a total muddle from the start. Can you provide more details, including if possible what facts or sources Konsala refers to? -- 253:
Any luck with Konsala's book yet? If so, I think the part (p. 29) about the interpretation of Staunton's response to the challenge (his letter and article of 3 April 1858) is the top priority, as it comments on whether these were a polite refusal or a conditional acceptance of the challenge. --
125:- I'd simply forgotten to put a slash in a named ref tag that I was re-using. It's nice to see that someone else is interested in Staunton - my respect for him has increased since I started researching him; before that, most of what I knew was Morphy's "and some devilish bad games". 468:
Hello Lab-oratory, and thanks for having joined the WikiProject Chess! Clearly having someone with Finnish sources is an extremely interesting asset for the project, I hope you will also find interesting stuff to add to your articles on the Finnish Knowledge (XXG).
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Konsala doesn't refer to any sources in the middle of the book. He instead has a reference section in the end of the book. He references to somthing like 25 different books and 4 magazines.
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Well, I bumped into Staunton while reading and writing about Morphy. I'm not really so interested in him, I just happen to have the article on my watchlist. :)
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Any luck with Konsala's book yet? When you do get it, can you please add the material, with quotes and translations, to
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Yep, the last change I made before I turned in was pretty disastrous, thanks for noticing it. I've
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Actually, im quite busy on other things right now, but I'll see if I can get it this week.
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Hello to you too. :) I have already found all kind of interesting things. I made finnish
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using finnish book and links found in en-wiki version. He was very interesting person.
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I put everything I write on wikipedia into a spell checker, you must be mistaken. --
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Excellent! Don't return it too early - I'm trying to fill the remaining gaps in
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It's so unfair, we have to reference every sentence and our sources don't! --
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