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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Place: Huddersfield and Sheffield |
| Start date: 23 Feb. 1861 |
| End date: 3 Aug. 1861 |
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| Notes: |
| Di Felice gives the result as +4-1=0 for Watkinson; Spinrad, the Illustrated London News, the Era, and the Chess Player's Chronicle give +7-4=0. Stanley gives +7-4=1 in the Manchester Weekly Express and Guardian. Di Felice gives the location as Sheffield; the Chess Player's Chronicle and the Era say that the games alternated between Huddersfield and Sheffield. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 34 |
| Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 107 |
| Periodicals |
| [CPC], vol. 3, no. 27, Mar. 1861, page 69 |
| [CPC], vol. 3, no. 29, May 1861, page 131 |
| [CPC], vol. 3, no. 33, Sep. 1861, page 273 |
| [Era], vol. 23, no. 1171, 3 Mar. 1861, page 5 |
| [Era], vol. 23, no. 1194, 11 Aug. 1861, page 12 |
| [Era], vol. 24, no. 1215, 5 Jan. 1862, page 4 |
| [ILN], vol. 38, no. 1081, 30 Mar. 1861, page 297 |
| [ILN], vol. 39, no. 1102, 10 Aug. 1861, page 148 |
| [ILN], vol. 39, no. 1103, 17 Aug. 1861, page 173 |
| [MWEG], 23 Feb. 1861 |
| [MWEG], 24 Aug. 1861 |
| Web |
| Mann, Steve. [Yorkshire Chess History - 1861: Match between Watkinson and Thorold] |
| Priestley, Edgar. [A 'Pride Of Huddersfield' Man] |
| Spinrad, Jeremy P. [Collected results, 1836-1863] |
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