Paul_Journoud

Paul Journoud

Paul Journoud

French chess player and editor

Paul Journoud (January 1821, Lyon – December 1882, Paris) was a French chess master and editor.

Paul Journoud.

He was a member of the Café de la Régence chess club in Paris, and one of leading French masters in the 1850s/1860s. Journoud lost all games to Paul Morphy, which all took place during his first visit in Paris in 1858, although won a consultation game against the American grandmaster playing together with Jules Arnous de Rivière. He lost matches against de Rivière (+4 –9 =2) at Paris 1859, and Adolf Anderssen (+1 –3 =1) at Paris 1860.[1] Among others, he played an equal match with Alexander Petrov at Paris 1863.[2]

He was an editor of several chess periodicals: La Régence (1860), La Nouvelle Régence (1861–1864), Le Palamède Français (1864), and Le Sphinx (1865–1867).[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "Edo Ratings, Journoud, P." Edochess.ca. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  2. [2]
    Isaak Linder, A. D. Petrow – pjerwyj russkij schachmatnyj master, Fizkultura i Sport, Moskwa 1955. (Russian edition)
  3. [3]
    "Journoud". Heritagechecsfra.free.fr. Retrieved 14 December 2014.


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