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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Place: London, England |
| Start date: 1841 |
| End date: 1841 |
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| Notes: |
| Feenstra Kuiper, Di Felice, Golombek and Alberti give year as 1839. Hooper and Whyld, van Winsen, Hindle, Spinrad, Mark Weeks (from World Chess Champions, by E. Winter) and La Grande Storia degli Scacchi give 1841. All of these sources give the result as +3-2=1 for Stanley. Fiske says it was not long before Stanley's departure for the United States (which was in 1842), and says that Stanley won by 'a large majority'. Sarah gives the score as +3-1=3 and year 1841. However, Staunton claimed (Chess Player's Chronicle, 1842, vol.2, p.368) that they played 12 games at Pawn and Two Moves, exclusive of draws, Stanley winning 7 to Staunton's 5. It is not clear how many draws there were but Staunton published one draw (Chess Player's Chronicle, 1842, vol.2, p.213). Three of Staunton's wins and four of Stanley's were also published in the Chess Player's Chronicle (1841-1842, vol.2, pp.117,200,211,226,241,293,324). Therefore, I take the result to be +7-5=1 for Stanley. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 3 |
| Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 12 |
| Fiske, First American Chess Congress, page 406 |
| Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 307 |
| Hindle, Mystery of Edward Pindar, page 43 |
| Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 324 |
| van Winsen, James Mason in America, page 301 |
| Zavatarelli, Ignatz Kolisch, page 87 |
| Periodicals |
| [CPC], vol. 2, no. 13, 29 Jan. 1842, page 213 |
| [CPC], vol. 2, no. 23, 2 Apr. 1842, page 368 |
| [ILN], vol. 27, no. 760, 8 Sep. 1855, page 294 |
| [ILN], vol. 27, no. 762, 22 Sep. 1855, page 366 |
| Web |
| Alberti, Marco A. [Howard Staunton] |
| Sarah. [An American Tragedy] |
| Sarah. [Charles Henry Stanley] |
| Sericano, C. [I grandi matches fino al 1849] |
| Spinrad, Jeremy P. [Collected results, 1836-1863] |
| Weeks, Mark. [Howard Staunton's Tournament, Match and Exhibition Record] |
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