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From the "Morning Post and Daily Advertiser" (London, ENG), May 13, 1788:
CHESS-CLUB at PARSLOE's in ST. JAMES's STREET.
On Saturday, the 24th, at Two O'clock, Mr. PHILLIDOR [sic] will play three different games at CHESS, blindfold, against Three of the best Players - All the members of the Club are desired to honour the match with their presence; and the lovers of Chess not belonging to the Club, will be admitted by Tickets, which may be had by applying to Mr. Parsloe.
(access to the web page may be restricted - the notice is near the bottom of the 3rd column)
More similar notices appear throughout 1788 and 1789 for similar "Phillidor" blindfold exhibitions - some mentioning tickets available for 5 shillings each (not a cheap sum in those days).
Last edited by Hugh Brodie; Tuesday, 16th March, 2010, 01:24 PM.
Can you check if they posted the results after 24th of May?
This article is actually from May 12, describing an exhibition previously held.
"PHILLIDOR'S [sic] annual wonder yields to none of them. Two Chess-boards in full work at one time - out of sight, but never out of mind. Playing Both Games upon hearsay, and Winning All that he played for - were the points of curiosity on Saturday.
In both games, Mr. Phillidor gave the first move. Against Mr. Leycester he won in less than two hours. Mr. Noel took near three hours to be beat.
Mr Bowdler called the moves.
Mr. Leycester and Mr. Noel do not yet rank with Count Bruhl and Mr. Bowdler - but they played in a fine style."
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Here is the report from Sat. May 31, which describes the exhibition given on the 24th:
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"The celebrated Mr. Phillidor on Saturday last exhibited another specimen of his wonderful faculty at this interesting amusement.
About forty gentlemen gathered at Parsloe's, in St. James's street, in consequence of his inviitation to see him contend blindfolded, in three different games at the same time, with three of the best players.
His antagonists on this occasion were Count Bruhl, Mr. Atwood, and Mr. Mazares.
With Count Bruhl he played equal, giving him only the move. To Mr. Atwood and Mr. Mazares he gave a pawn and the move.
The game first decided was that with Mr. Atwood, which Phillidor won. The second, with Mr. Mazares, Phillidor lost, by one mistake. The other, with Count Bruhl, Phillidor won.
The whole lasted an hour and a half, during which Phillidor exerted a degree of promptitude and skill which he never exceeded at any more juvenile period.
Mr. Nowell (late Mr. Jennings), Mr. Bowdler, and Mr. Brune, a foreigner, played for Phillidor, who directed his moves with much pleasantry, and apparently with little mental labour."
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Phillidor, who directed his moves with much pleasantry, and apparently with little mental labour."
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Note, Monsieur. Philidor was only 62 years young at the time of blindfold exhibition!
" On Saturday, August 29th, 1795, the following sad intelligence appeared in the daily papers.
MONS. PHILIDOR, THE CHESS-PLAYER.
On Monday last, the 24th of August, this long celebrated foreigner made his last move into the other world. For two months, he was kept alive merely by art and the kind attentions of an old and worthy friend. To the last moment of his existence he enjoyed, though nearly seventy years of age, a strong and retentive, memory, which long rendered him remarkable in the circle of his acquaintance in this capital.
M. Philidor was a member of the chess-club near thirty years, and was a man of those meek qualities that rendered him not less esteemed as a companion, than admired for extraordinary skill in the game of chess, for which he was pre-eminently distinguished.
It is only two months since he played two games blindfold at the same time, against two excellent chess-players, and was declared the victor. He was, besides, an admirable musician and a composer.
What seemed to have shaken the poor old man's constitution, and to have precipitated his exit, was not being able to procure a passport to return to Paris to see his family (who reside there,) before he paid the last debt of nature. This refusal was rendered still more bitter, on its being intimated to him that he was denounced by the blood-thirsty committee of French Revolutionists as a suspected character. From the moment he was made acquainted with this circumstance he became a martyr to grief his philosophy forsook him, his tears were incessant and he sank into the grave."
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