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William Watts Montgomery

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WILLIAM WATTS MONTGOMERY (born Nov-11-1827, died Jan-09-1897, 69 years old) United States of America [what is this?] <Judge William W. Montgomery, who died last week, was one of the finest chess players the south has ever produced ...> Source: Savannah Morning News, 1897.01.28, p5 <Judge W. W. Montgomery, of Augusta, Ga., recently visited Atlanta and contested several off-hand games with the strong players of the local club. He won about half of the parties, some of which were hard-fought and interesting. Judge Montgomery was one of the pioneer chess editors in the United States. He conducted for a year or more the chess department in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, and was one of the projectors and liberal supporters of the First American Chess Congress. When Paul Morphy was in New York soon after the close of this tournament, enjoying with becoming modesty the fruits of his triumphs, he played a dozen or more games with Judge Montgomery (who was then a brilliant lawyer and literateur of the metropolis), first at the odds of a knight and later at the odds of pawn and two moves. Honors were about evenly divided, the youthful champion pronouncing his erudite antagonist one of the ablest players he had met among the New York amateurs. Montgomery moved to the South and was elected one of the associate justices of the supreme court of Georgia. For many years he has been esteemed one of the purest and ablest jurists in the United States. He is a polished gentleman, and his learning knows no bounds. Despite the fact that for a quarter of a century he has eschewed the game, he is to-day a player of great ability. He is a proponent of the Morphy school of chess and holds its founder to be facile princeps among the masters of our royal game.> Source: Washington Chess World, v1 n3, March 1893, pp31-32 (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/f...) Last updated: 2020-05-09 12:05:06

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page 1 of 1; 8 games    Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. C Stanley vs W Montgomery 1-0 24 1856 Thematic Game C33 King's Gambit Accepted 2. C Stanley vs W Montgomery   1-0 45 1856 Thematic Game C33 King's Gambit Accepted 3. C Stanley vs W Montgomery   1-0 20 1856 Thematic Game C33 King's Gambit Accepted 4. C Stanley vs W Montgomery 0-1 36 1856 Thematic Game C33 King's Gambit Accepted 5. NN vs W Montgomery 0-1 27 1858 Casual game C23 Bishop's Opening 6. W Montgomery vs NN 0-1 34 1858 Casual game B44 Sicilian 7. W Montgomery vs Maurian 0-1 26 1858 Casual game C33 King's Gambit Accepted 8. Morphy vs W Montgomery 1-0 28 1859 Knight Odds game 000 Chess variants

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