Paul Journoud (January 1821,

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

– December 1882,

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

) was a French

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

master and editor. 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 Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 – July 10, 1884) was an American chess player. He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and is often considered the unofficial World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he was ca ...

, 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 Jules Arnous de Rivière (4 May 1830, Nantes – 11 September 1905, Paris) was the strongest French chess player from the late 1850s through the late 1870s. He is best known today for playing many games with Paul Morphy when the American champio ...

. He lost matches against de Rivière (+4 –9 =2) at Paris 1859, and

Adolf Anderssen Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (July 6, 1818 – March 13, 1879)"Anderssen, Adolf" in ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 385. was a German chess master. He won the great interna ...

(+1 –3 =1) at Paris 1860. Among others, he played an equal match with Alexander Petrov at Paris 1863. 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).

References

External links

Chessgames.com – Paul Journoud
1821 births 1882 deaths French chess players 19th-century chess players {{France-chess-bio-stub