Samuel Rosenthal
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Samuel Rosenthal was a Polish-born French chess player. Chess historian Edward Winter wrote, "He dedicated his life to chess-playing, touring, writing, teaching and analysing. Despite only occasional
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Café de la Régence
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The Café de la Régence in Paris was an important European centre of chess in the 18th and 19th centuries. All important chess masters of the time played there.
Samuel Rosenthal
…Uprising. He settled in Paris as a chess professional and writer. In 1864, he lost a match to Ignatz von Kolisch (+1−7=0) in Paris. Rosenthal won the Café de la Régence championship in 1865, 1866, and 1867 in Paris, and became the strongest French chess player. In 1867, he came ninth in the Paris tournament (von Kolisch…
The famous chess match between Howard Staunton and Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, on 16 December 1843, by Jean-Henri Marlet
![Fictional depiction of the great chess masters of the time gathering to play at the café, Antti Favén [fi], 1902–1913](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Antti_Fav%C3%A9n_-_Chess_Players.jpg/500px-Antti_Fav%C3%A9n_-_Chess_Players.jpg)
Fictional depiction of the great chess masters of the time gathering to play at the café, Antti Favén [fi], 1902–1913