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Genius is a starry word but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.
Andrew Soltis
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Andrew Soltis
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 28
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Hazleton
Pennsylvania
Andrew Eden Soltis
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