Café de la Régence

The Café de la Régence in the 19th century

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.

The Café' masters include, but are not limited to:

•   Paul Morphy
•   François-André Danican Philidor (who often met with Ben Franklin)
•   Legall de Kermeur (Philidor's teacher)
•   Jules Arnous de Rivière
•   Adolf Anderssen
•   Samuel Rosenthal

Additional information

• Karl Marx met Frederich Engels at this café on August18, 1844.
• The great tournament of Paris 1867, won by Ignatz von Kolisch above Szymon Winawer and Wilhelm Steinitz, was played there.
• La Société des Amateurs, was based here.
• In 1742, the celebrated French writers and philosophers, Diderot and Rousseau, met at this café

Biography

• Metzner, Paul: Crescendo of the Virtuoso, 1998. [1]
• Ken Whyld: Chess Christmas. Moravian Chess, Olomouc 2006. ISBN 80-7189-559-8. S. 311 - 321

References

• Shenk, David (2006), The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-51010-1