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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Place: Cheshunt |
| Start date: 1851 |
| End date: Nov. 1851 |
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| Notes: |
| The result reported here is, as usual, the result of games actually played. As reported by Staunton in The Chess Tournament, the Chess Player's Chronicle and the Illustrated London News, the rules of the match accorded Williams a 3-point advantage at the outset (and draws did not count), so that he won the match with 7 points to 6. Staunton's report in The Chess Tournament gives +6-4=1 (actually played), as do Sunnucks, Hooper and Whyld, Coles (in World Chess Champions), Giffen, Mark Weeks and Sarah's Chess Journal. Murray (in his obituary of Staunton in the British Chess Magazine, Dec. 1908), Sergeant, Feenstra Kuiper, Golombek, Di Felice, Spinrad, Carl Dunn and La Grande Storia degli Scacchi give +6-4=3. The latter is correct, since all 3 draws are given in Staunton's book of the International Tournament. I have guessed at the end date of Nov. 1851 from the date of the report in the Illustrated London News. Probably it started after the Löwenthal-Williams match, which finished in Oct. 1851. Townsend gives the location as Staunton's home in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 14 |
| Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 14 |
| Féry d'Esclands, Congrès des Échecs 1867, page xxx |
| Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 343 |
| Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 56 |
| Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 326 |
| Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 77 |
| Staunton, The Chess Tournament, page 377 |
| Sunnucks, Encyclopaedia of Chess, page 464 |
| Townsend, Notes on Staunton |
| Periodicals |
| [BCR], vol. 1, no. 4, Apr. 1853, page 125 |
| [CP], vol. 1, no. 17, 8 Nov. 1851, page 134 |
| [CP], vol. 1, no. 20, 29 Nov. 1851, page 158 |
| [CPC], vol. 12, no. 12, Dec. 1851, page 362 |
| [CPC], vol. 4, no. 4, Apr. 1856, page 127 |
| [ILN], vol. 19, no. 530, 22 Nov. 1851, page 619 |
| [SZ], vol. 7, no. 7, July 1852, page 274 |
| [SZ], vol. 7, no. 9, Sep. 1852, page 335 |
| Web |
| Dunn, Carl. [Ceremonies of the Horsemen 1(2): Elijah Williams of Bristol & London] |
| Giffen, Glen. [Events Timeline] |
| Kingston, Taylor. [Don't Bet the Farm or Scholar's Concern Tempers Stat-Freak's Delight], page 11 |
| Murray, H.J.R. [Howard Staunton by H.J.R. Murray] |
| Sarah. [Howard Staunton] |
| Sericano, C. [I grandi matches 1850 - 1864] |
| Spinrad, Jeremy P. [Collected results, 1836-1863] |
| Spinrad, Jeremy P. [The Telegraph, the Velocipede, and the Bristol Sloth, Part Two], page 1 |
| Weeks, Mark. [Howard Staunton's Tournament, Match and Exhibition Record] |
| Winter, Edward. [CN 7854. Demoralization] |
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