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Event table notes
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| Place: Paris |
| Start date: 1820 |
| End date: 1820 |
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| Notes: |
| According to Delannoy's account, de la Bourdonnais challenged Deschapelles at the Café de la Régence, they played a single game, and de la Bourdonnais lost. Afterwards, they played in private and results of those games are not known, though Delannoy suggests that Deschapelles' subsequent reluctance to play de la Bourdonnais in public indicated that de la Bourdonnais became the better player. No date is given, but this must come after de la Bourdonnais' games against Mouret, also recounted by Delannoy, and those occurred after Mouret had been touring England as the operator of the automaton, which he started doing in 1819. It must also come before the triangular contest between de la Bourdonnais, Cochrane, and Deschapelles in April 1821. I therefore guess at 1820. |
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