Alexandre Deschapelles
Alexandre-Louis-Honore Lebreton-Deschapelles (March 7th 1780 with City-with Avray, France - October 27th 1847 with Paris) is a general of Empire and the main second of failures French after Philidor. It is during one period the best player in the world.
Revolutionary period: the general
Originating in Brittany and wire in an officer in the house in the King, he studies initially the art of war. One of his/her brothers is shot in year II to be last with the Chouans. Under Napoleon, it engages in the military career and goes up until the rank of general. In a battle against the Prussians, it loses his right-hand man.
Master of failures
After the fall of Napoleon, in 1815, it is put in retirement and is devoted to the failures (play which it had learned, of to believe it, in only four days), with the play of Whist (an ancestor of the Bridge), with the Backgammon like with the Billard.
Soon Deschapelles becomes one of the strongest players of the Café of Regency. But haughty and arrogant, he believes the superior of all his contemporaries and agrees to play only of the parts where he gives an advantage. If it loses, it with the practice to increase the advantage and stake, it with what its adversaries are not always risked. This is why it is difficult to evaluate its true force. It is not in any manner theorist, never reads book of failures and, contrary to Philidor or Saint-Lover, in written forever either. Its knowledge in the opening S is not famous, so that it must often reflect a long time at the time of its first blows.
Under the monarchy of July, he criticizes the government and makes appear the work the Law of the People . In 1832, it is stopped because one it suspect being implied in a plot against the Orleans.
In 1842, it gains a contest against Pierre Saint-Lover by +3-2=0.
When Deschapelles does not manage any more to gain against its pupil Bourdonnais, it withdraws failures and is devoted with very as much success to the culture of the fruits and vegetables.
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