Félix Sicre (1817 – 1871) was a Cuban

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 dist ...

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 had been generally accepted as Cuban Chess Championship, Cuban champion since his 1862 match defeat of Félix Sicre. He ...

. Sicre 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 c ...

, 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 People from Spanish Cuba Cuban chess players 19th-century chess players {{Cuba-chess-bio-stub

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