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CARYN COSSÉ BELL is an associate at the Ethel and Herman L. Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at the University of New Orleans and professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her current book, Creole New Orleans in the Revolutionary Atlantic: Une histoire de famille, is nearly complete.
In the winter of 1857, a frenzy took over the city of New Orleans. Twenty-year-old Paul Morphy had returned to his home city from a trip to New York, where he dominated the best chess players in the country. This led to a craze that would continue until the summer of 1858. Merchants could not keep enough chess books, chessboards, and pieces to meet the demand. Newsboys on street corners chattered about strategy.
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