Paul Journoud (January 1821,

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

– December 1882,

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

) was a French

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 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, 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 ...

, 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 champi ...

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

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

(+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).

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