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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Place: Manchester |
| Start date: Nov. 1855 |
| End date: Dec. 1855 |
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| Notes: |
| The Chess Player's Chronicle of Apr. 1856 (p.121) says Owen and Kipping played 4 matches (including this one) during Owen's residence at Manchester. From dates of associations with clubs alluded to in the Illustrated London News and Chess Player's Chronicle (in 1853 Owen lived in Warrington according to the 21 May 1853 issue of the ILN, p.403; no mention of Owen at events in Manchester through 1854, e.g. their annual supper in Oct., according to the 28 Oct. 1854 issue of the ILN, p.423; Owen did not participate in the Manchester - Liverpool matches in Apr. and June, 1855 according to the May issue of the CPC, p.176, and the Sept. issue, p.304 of the CPC; Owen was living in Manchester in July 1855, according to the 14 July 1855 issue of the ILN, p.43), I take it that Owen resided in Manchester only briefly, in 1855 and possibly a little before and after. Furthermore, the Dec. 1855 issue of the CPC (p.398) says the third match between them was pending as of the Manchester Club's anniversary on 1 Nov. 1855, and the Jan. 1856 issue of the CPC (p.5) gives 'games lately contested in matches between' Owen and Kipping. My guess is that this match (the third of the 4 listed in the Apr. 1856 issue of the CPC), started in Nov. 1855 and ended in Dec. 1855. The Illustrated London News of 1 Dec. 1855 (p.650) gives a total of recent matches between the two (+26-20=1 for Owen) that does not quite match the result of the first 3 matches in the CPC report (+26-24 for Owen). The chronology of reports in the Era for the match won by Kipping +11-4=1 suggests that that match was played in Oct. and Nov. 1855, and a partial result of 9-6 for Owen appears in the 9 Dec. 1855 issue of the Era, which I take to refer to this match. So it probably started in Nov. 1855 and ended in Dec. 1855. |
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| References |
| Periodicals |
| [CPC], vol. 3, no. 12, Dec. 1855, page 398 |
| [CPC], vol. 4, no. 4, Apr. 1856, page 121 |
| [Era], vol. 17, no. 898, 9 Dec. 1855, page 13 |
| [ILN], vol. 27, no. 772, 1 Dec. 1855, page 650 |
| Web |
| Spinrad, Jeremy P. [Collected results, 1836-1863] |
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