The following eight games were played at the Cafe de la Regence, Paris, on September 27, 1858, during an interval in the Morphy-Harrwitz match. The performance lasted ten hours, and the first two players to surrender, Potier, and Preti, both held out to about the seventh hour. The American journalist "Malakoff", writing to the New York Times of the affair, stated that "around each of the eight boards there was a large collection of excellent chess players, who gave their advice freely." Whether or not there was really this additional handicap, the blindfold player's achievement was a splendid one; for he won 6 and drew 2 games against a powerful opposition and, moreover, made no error of real importance.