Félix Sicre (1817 – 1871) was a Cuban

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

master. He became the first Cuban champion in 1860, and lost the title in 1862 match against

Celso Golmayo Zúpide Celso Golmayo y Zúpide (24 April 1820, in Logroño, Spain – 1 April 1898, in Havana) was a Spanish–Cuban chess master. He was the first Cuban player to participate in European Tournaments. He had been generally accepted as Cuban Chess Champi ...

. Sicre lost all games to

Paul Morphy Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837July 10, 1884) was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master. A prodigy, Morphy emerged onto the chess scene in 1857 ...

, during his two visits in Havana in October 1862 and February 1864.Rogelio Caparrós, ''Paul Morphy. Partidas completas'', Ediciones Eseuve, Madrid 1993. .

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* 1817 births 1871 deaths 19th-century Cuban people Cuban chess players 19th-century chess players {{Cuba-chess-bio-stub

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