The following people have beaten Paul Morphy

Paul Morphy

Paul 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...

 (June 22, 1837 – July 10, 1884) in a regular game 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...

 – not a game played at odds

Chess handicap

A handicap in chess is a way to enable a weaker player to have a chance of winning against a stronger one. There are many kinds of such handicaps, such as material odds, extra moves A handicap (or "odds") in chess is a way to enable a weaker player to have a chance of winning against a stronger...

. He was considered to be one of the best players in history (see comparing top chess players throughout history).

Match and casual games

Adolf Anderssen

Adolf Anderssen

Karl 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...

, Paris 1858 (match +2 –7 =2, casual games +1 –5 =0)

Thomas Barnes

Thomas Barnes

Thomas Barnes may refer to:*Thomas Barnes , British journalist and former editor of The Times*Thomas Barnes , MP for Bolton*Tom Barnes , journalist from Pennsylvania...

, London 1858 (casual +7 –19 =1)

Henry Edward Bird, London 1858 (casual +1 –10 =1)

Samuel Boden

Samuel Boden

Samuel Standidge Boden was an English professional chess master.The mating pattern "Boden's Mate" was named after the mate that occurred in one of his games, Schulder-Boden, London 1853....

, London 1858 (casual +1 –6 =3)

Frederic Deacon

Frederic Deacon

Frederic Deacon was a Belgian chess master.He won a match against W. Gilby and lost a match to Charles Edward Ranken at London 1851 ....

, London 1858 (casual +1 –1 =0)

Daniel Fiske, W.J.A. Fuller, Frederick Perrin

Frederick Perrin

Frederic Perrin was an American chess master.Born in London, descended from a Swiss family, he came to the United States in 1845. He played twice in the American Chess Congress at New York 1857 and Chicago 1874...

, Hoboken, NJ, 1857 (casual +1 –0 =0)

George Hammond, New York 1857 (casual +1 –15 =0)

Daniel Harrwitz

Daniel Harrwitz

Daniel Harrwitz was a Jewish German chess master.Harrwitz was born in Breslau in the Prussian Province of Silesia. He established his reputation in Paris, particularly as a player of blindfold games...

, Paris 1858 (casual +1 –0 =0, match +2 –5 =1)

Johann Löwenthal

Johann Löwenthal

Johann Jacob Löwenthal was a professional chess master.Löwenthal was born in Budapest, the son of a Jewish merchant. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native city. In 1846, he won a match against Carl Hamppe in Vienna...

, London 1858 (match +3 –9 =2), London 1859 (casual +1 –1 =1)

George Webb Medley, London 1858 (casual +1 –3 =0)

John Owen

John Owen (chess player)

John Owen was an English vicar and strong amateur chess player.In 1858 he won a game against Paul Morphy, which led to a match between the two...

, London 1858 (casual +1 –4 =0)

Louis Paulsen

Louis Paulsen

Louis Paulsen was a German chess player.In 1860s and 1870s, he was among the top five players in the world. He was a younger brother of Wilfried Paulsen....

, New York 1857 (match +1 –5 =2)

Jules Arnous de Rivière

Jules Arnous de Rivière

Jules 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...

, Paul Journoud

Paul Journoud

Paul Journoud was a French chess master and editor.He was a member of the Café de la Régence chess club in Paris, and one of leading French masters in 1850s/1860s...

, Paris 1858 (casual +1 –0 =0)

Jules Arnous de Rivière

Jules Arnous de Rivière

Jules 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...

, Paris 1858 (casual +1 –6 =1), Paris 1863 (match +3 –9 =0)

Eugène Rousseau

Eugéne Rousseau (chess player)

Eugène Rousseau was a French chess master. He was the strongest chess player in New Orleans in the first half of the 1840s. The Rousseau Gambit is named after him....

, New Orleans 1849–1850 (casual, ca. +5 –45 =0)

John William Schulten

John William Schulten

John William Schulten was a 19th-century chess master from Germany and the United States. In the 1840s and 1850s, he traveled widely in Europe and the United States to play some of the best chess players in the world — Adolf Anderssen, Alexandre Deschapelles, Daniel Harrwitz, Bernhard Horwitz,...

, New York 1857 (casual +1 –23 =0)

Charles Henry Stanley, New York 1857 (casual +1 –12 =0)

See also

• List of people who have beaten Alexander Alekhine in chess
• List of people who have beaten José Raúl Capablanca in chess
• List of people who have beaten Bobby Fischer in chess
• List of people who have beaten Garry Kasparov in chess
• List of people who have beaten Emanuel Lasker in chess
• Morphy number
  Morphy number
  The Morphy number is a measure of how closely a chess player is connected to Paul Morphy by way of playing chess games. People who played a chess game with Morphy have a Morphy number of 1. Players who did not play Morphy but played someone with a Morphy number of 1 have a Morphy number of 2...
  
  

External links

• Chessgames.com – Paul Morphy