Anderssen, K.E.A. – Zukertort, J.H. 1868




Results
 
Name   Edo    Dev.   Score  /  Games 
Anderssen, Adolf    2680 (44) 11.5/16 
Zukertort, Johannes    2543 (39) 4.5/16 
 
Status: formal

Event table notes

Event data
Place: Berlin
Start date: 11 Apr. 1868
End date: 17 Apr. 1868
 
Notes:
The Neue Berliner Schachzeitung of May 1868 (p.160) gives +11-4=1 for Anderssen in serious games. All my secondary sources have +8-3=1 for Anderssen. The Neue Berliner Schachzeitung of Nov. 1868 (p.326) has the 12th game of the match, dated 16 Apr. 1868, but there may have been more.
 
References
Books
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 47
   Elo, Rating of Chessplayers, page 90
   Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 18
   Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 352
   Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 231
   Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 387
   Moran, World Chess Championship I, page 8
   Sunnucks, Encyclopaedia of Chess, page 27
   Zavatarelli, Ignatz Kolisch, page 43
Periodicals
   [NBSZ], vol. 5, no. 5, May 1868, page 140, 160
   [NBSZ], vol. 5, no. 7, July 1868, page 203
   [NBSZ], vol. 5, no. 8, Aug. 1868, page 231
   [NBSZ], vol. 5, no. 11, Nov. 1868, page 324
Web
   Hoppe, Frank.  [Chronik des Jahres 1868]
   Sarah.  [Adolf Anderssen]
   Sericano, C.  [I matches 1865/79]

Match information updated: 6 Aug. 2024