Paul Morphy's Philidor Number is 8

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PN1 G. Atwood - Philidor, 1794
PN2 G. Atwood - J.Wilson, 1801
PN3 W.Lewis - J. Wilson, 1819
PN4 W.Lewis - A. Deschapelle, 1821
PN5 Cochrane - A. Deschapelle, 1821
PN6 Cochrane - Staunton, 1841
PN7 Staunton - A. Anderssen, 1851
PN8 Anderssen - Morphy, 1858

Anderssen was a PN7 and MN1.

Morphy was a PN8 and MN0.

I wonder what Philidor’s Ruy Lopez Number is?

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I suspect it’s significantly lower than 8: Saint-Amant and a consultation partner played against Morphy in 1858, and also played against Deschapelles.

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Good call billbrock!
NEW:
PN5 St.Amant - Deschapelles, 1836
PN6 St.Amant - Morphy, 1858

Making Morphy at least a PN6.

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I would like to think that Fischer was Capablanca in a previous life, making his Capablance number 1
and that Capablanca was Morphy in a previous like, making Capa’s Morphy number 1.
Perhapa Morphy was Philidor in a previous life?

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@ David Ames:

I agree with your keen insight.

After all, aren’t we all chess progeny of those who mated each other in the past?

I think I have a little Bogolyubov in me somewhere with a touch of Reti.

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A side note: Don’t Bogolyubov and Amadeus have the same meaning?

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Ooh, very linguistically nimble. If you wanted, you could also throw in Karl Gottlieb and Theophilus Thompson for good measure.

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Nods. I was gonna mention that Morphy played Staunton in a couple of consultation games.