Paul Journoud was a French chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master and editor.

He was a member of the Café de la Régence chess club in Paris, and one of leading French masters in 1850s/1860s. Journoud lost all games to Paul Morphy

Paul Morphy

Paul Charles Morphy was an American chess player. He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and an unofficial World Chess Champion. He was a chess prodigy...

, 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

Jules Arnous de Rivière 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 champion visited Paris in 1858 and 1863.Born in Nantes to a French father and an English mother as...

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

Adolf Anderssen

Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen was a German chess master. He is considered to have been the world's leading chess player in the 1850s and 1860s...

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

Alexander Petrov

Alexander Dmitrievich Petrov was a Russian chess player, chess composer, and chess writer....

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).

External links

• Chessgames.com – Paul Journoud