I know that Paul Morphy, as far as we know, composed only one problem.
Sissa 1864 pg 371, available via google books

http://books.google.com/books?id=1io...er#PPA 371,M1

gives a problem listed as by Paul Morphy. It certainly looks like a
problem rather than a game position. I figure this is a mislabeling,
most likely a problem dedicated to Paul Morphy rather than by Paul
Morphy. I wonder whether anyone knows the story of this one?

Incidentally, I just finished my notes on all the Sissa issues
available on google books; these will be part of notes I will make
generally available through Chess-Cafe. It is odd to translate notes
in a language you do not speak; if anyone wants to look at them and
correct them, contact me at

spin at vuse dot vanderbilt dot edu

Actually, it gets worse. My next notes will be from a chess magazine
in a language which is sufficiently Germanic for me to make out the
basic thrust, but I don't even know what language it is yet!

Jerry Spinrad

On May 13, 11:05*am, "
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I know that Paul Morphy, as far as we know, composed only one problem.
Sissa 1864 pg 371, available via google books

http://books.google.com/books?id=1io...dq=sissa+ridde...

gives a problem listed as by Paul Morphy. It certainly looks like a
problem rather than a game position. I figure this is a mislabeling,
most likely a problem dedicated to Paul Morphy rather than by Paul
Morphy. I wonder whether anyone knows the story of this one?

Incidentally, I just finished my notes on all the Sissa issues
available on google books; these will be part of notes I will make
generally available through Chess-Cafe. It is odd to translate notes
in a language you do not speak; if anyone wants to look at them and
correct them, contact me at

spin at vuse dot vanderbilt dot edu

Actually, it gets worse. My next notes will be from a chess magazine
in a language which is sufficiently Germanic for me to make out the
basic thrust, but I don't even know what language it is yet!

Jerry Spinrad

The answer may lie buried somewhere in Lawson's bio -- I see Sissa
listed in his bibliography, among the magazines deemed to be "of
special value," so Lawson may have seen this composition. However, the
index gives no references to Sissa per se, so I can't say where or
even if he discusses this composition. There is one reference to
Sissa's editor Josef Kling, but it does not involve the problem.
The conventional view is that Morphy composed, or at least
published, only one problem, the famous two-mover:

W: Kf8, Rh1, g6; B: Kh8, Bg8, g7, h7