philidor in A Sentence

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    Philidor is my friend, Alekhine is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

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    Philidor was also a musical prodigy, and over his life he composed 21 music-comedies and one opera.

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    As modern day chess Grandmaster Andrew Soltis noted of Philidor,“[he] was the best player in the world for 50 years.

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    The following year, on May 9, Philidor won two and drew one of three simultaneous blindfold games, also played in London.

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    In 1744 at the age of 18, François-André Danican Philidor(1726-1795) enthralled Parisian society after playing two simultaneous games of chess in a public demonstration, all while blindfolded.

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    However, none of this significantly lessens Philidor's achievement(you try playing one game blindfolded), and certainly his contemporaries were impressed, and many who didn't witness it themselves disbelieving.

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    And even though he lost one game and only drew the other, the display established Philidor as a chess master par excellence, and blew new life into the ancient practice of blindfold chess.

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    Calling Philidor's 1744 exhibition“one of the most extraordinary examples of the power of memory and imagination,” his contemporary, Jean d'Alembert, the Chevalier de Jaucourt, revealed just how much of the history of blindfold chess had been forgotten.

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    In addition to giving us the classic line, Philidor's Analysis is widely hailed as the first book on chess to provide detailed notes on playing the middle game, to present chess strategy as a whole, and for the ideas of prophylaxis, sacrifice, blockade and the“mobility of the pawn formation.”.

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