Anderssen, K.E.A. – Suhle, C.F.B. 1859 (2)




Results
 
Name   Edo    Dev.   Score  /  Games 
Anderssen, Adolf    2612 (41) 2/
Suhle, Berthold    2516 (44) 4/
 
Status: formal

Event table notes

Event data
Place: Breslau
Start date: Aug. 1859
End date: Aug. 1859
 
Notes:
Renette and Zavatarelli list this as a formal match, one of four sets of games played between these two players in the second week of August 1859. Dubois, in La Rivista degli Scacchi (1859, p.167), gives a total score of the four sets of +27-13 for Anderssen and several draws. Feenstra Kuiper, Di Felice and Spinrad give +27-13=8 for Anderssen for the total of the four sets, as does the Schachzeitung of Sep. 1859 (p.286), matching the total given by Renette and Zavatarelli.The Schachzeitung of Jan. 1861 (p.32) confirms that this was a formal match with result +4-2=0 for Suhle.
 
References
Books
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 29
   Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 16
   Renette and Zavatarelli, Neumann, Hirschfeld and Suhle, page 44, 45
Periodicals
   [IZL], vol. 33, no. 847, 24 Sep. 1859, page 208
   [QCH], vol. 5, no. 18, 2017, page 439
   [RiS], vol. 1, no. 21, Nov. 1859, page 167
   [SZ], vol. 14, no. 9, Sep. 1859, page 286
   [SZ], vol. 16, no. 1, Jan. 1861, page 32
Web
   Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [Collected results, 1836-1863]

Match information updated: 8 Dec. 2023