Kolisch, I. – Medley, G.W. 1860




Results
 
Name   Edo    Dev.   Score  /  Games 
Kolisch, Ignatz    2639 (32) 5.5/
Medley, George    2341 (66) 1.5/
 
Status: formal

Event table notes

Event data
Place: London, England
Start date: 2 Oct. 1860
End date: Oct. 1860
 
Notes:
Di Felice and La Grande Storia degli Scacchi give +2-0=2 for Kolisch as does the Chess Monthly and Spinrad from the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Chess Games and the Schach Datenbank; the 21 Oct. 1860 issue of Bell's Life in London (p.7) gives this as a partial result to date. The Chess Player's Chronicle, La (Nouvelle) Régence, Spinrad from the Quarterly for Chess History, and Zavatarelli give +4-0=3 for Kolisch. The 20 Oct. 1860 issue of the Illustrated London News says the match is in progress and the 28 Oct. 1860 issue of Bell's Life in London (p.8) says that Medley had 'resigned' the match, so I guess that the match took place entirely in the month of October. The 4 Nov. 1860 issue of Bell's Life in London (p.3) gives a game dated 16 Oct. 1860, and the 25 Nov. 1860 issue (p.5) gives one dated 2 Oct. 1860. Zavatarelli dates the final game to 20 Oct. 1860, citing Jay Whitehead's database, though where that date was originally found is not stated.
 
References
Books
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 30
   Zavatarelli, Ignatz Kolisch, page 92
Periodicals
   [BLL], 21 Oct. 1860, page 7
   [BLL], 28 Oct. 1860, page 8
   [BLL], 4 Nov. 1860, page 3
   [BLL], 25 Nov. 1860, page 5
   [CMNY], vol. 4, no. 12, Dec. 1860, page 383
   [CPC], vol. 2, no. 23, Nov. 1860, page 324
   [Era], vol. 23, no. 1151, 14 Oct. 1860, page 14
   [Era], vol. 23, no. 1153, 28 Oct. 1860, page 5
   [ILN], vol. 37, no. 1055, 20 Oct. 1860, page 380
   [NR], vol. 1, no. 12, Dec. 1860, page 375
   [QCH], vol. 5, no. 18, 2017, page 430
   [SoT], 17 Nov. 1860
   [WSoT], 1 Dec. 1860
Web
   Sericano, C.  [I grandi matches 1850 - 1864]
   Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [Collected results, 1836-1863]

Match information updated: 6 Mar. 2021