17 Facts About Napoleon Marache

Napoleon Marache was a chess player, problem composer, and journalist.

Napoleon Marache was born in France and moved to the United States at around 12 years of age.

Napoleon Marache learned the game of chess around 1844, and immediately became a devotee.

Napoleon Marache began composing chess problems and writing about chess the following year.

Napoleon Marache is perhaps best known today for having lost a famous game to Paul Morphy.

Napoleon Marache moved to the United States at around 12 years of age.

Napoleon Marache learned the game around 1844 and immediately became a serious student of the game.

Napoleon Marache learned so quickly that he was able, three weeks after his first lesson, to give his tutor rook odds.

At various times in the 1850s and 1860s, Napoleon Marache was the chess editor or chess columnist for the New York Clipper, Porter's Spirit of the Times, and Wilkes' Spirit of the Times.

In 1865, Napoleon Marache wrote the chess section for a new edition of Hoyle's guide to games.

Shortly after the end of the Civil War, Morphy traveled to New York to work on an annotated collection of his games, with Marache acting as secretary and Charles A Gilberg working closely with Morphy.

In 1866, Napoleon Marache published Napoleon Marache's Manual of Chess, one of the first chess books in the United States.

In 1857, Napoleon Marache was one of the sixteen leading American players who participated in the First American Chess Congress, Morphy's triumphant first tournament.

Napoleon Marache defeated Daniel Fiske in the first round, losing his first two games but winning the remaining three.

In 1858, Napoleon Marache was one of the players who represented the New York Chess Club in the second game of a two-game telegraph match with its Philadelphia counterpart, which resulted in a win for New York.

Napoleon Marache substituted for Fiske, who had been one of the New York players in the first game, which had ended in a draw.

Napoleon Marache is perhaps best known today for losing the following brilliancy against Morphy in 1857, in which Napoleon Marache played White in an Evans Gambit:.