"[...]given as novel-certain moves producing certain results, etc., for that he had made the same deductions himself, as necessary consequences. In like manner, Newton demonstrated, in his own mind, the problems of Euclid, the enunciations only being given; and I can think of no more suitable epithet for Morphy than to call him "the Newton of Chess." But revenons a nos moutons. Morphy's achievements at the Congress in New York induced many to[...].""
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"[...]given as novel-certain moves producing certain results, etc., for that he had made the same deductions himself, as necessary consequences. In like manner, Newton demonstrated, in his own mind, the problems of Euclid, the enunciations only being given; and I can think of no more suitable epithet for Morphy than to call him "the Newton of Chess." But revenons a nos moutons. Morphy's achievements at the Congress in New York induced many to[...].""
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